Factotum (film) Quotes

“All I want to do is get my check and get drunk.”

“Bar Patron: Kid, I've probably slept longer than you've lived.”

“Lili Taylor - Jan”

“Marisa Tomei - Laura”

“Rotten Tomatoes: Factotum”

“Fisher Stevens - Manny”

“Didier Flamand - Pierre”

“[voiceover] I decided to clean up the apartment. I thought I must be turning into a fag.”

“Adrienne Shelly - Jerry”

“Karen Young - Grace”

“Wikipedia: Factotum (film)”

“Matt Dillon - Henry Chinaski”

“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Factotum”

“[voiceover] Jan was an excellent fuck. She had a tight pussy. And she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.”

“[voiceover] I understood too well that great lovers were always men of leisure. I fucked better as a bum than as a puncher of timeclocks.”

“[voiceover] The racetrack crowd is the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing. Nobody wins finally, we are just seeking a reprieve, a moment out of the glare.”

“[voiceover] That scene in the office stayed with me. Those cigars, the fine clothes. I thought of good steaks, long rides up winding driveways that led to beautiful homes. Ease. Trips to Europe. Fine women.”

“[voiceover] A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers. Filled with saints, heros, beggars, madmen. Filled with banality and booze. Filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought. A poem is a city of war. It's a barbershop filled with cynical drunks. A poem is a city. A poem is a nation. A poem is the world.”

“[voiceover] I bought some expensive clothes and a good pair of shoes. The owner of the bike supply house didn't look so powerful anymore. Manny and I took a little longer with our lunches and came back smoking good cigars. The new life didn't sit well with Jan. She was used to her four fucks a day and also used to see me poor and humble.”

“[voiceover] Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this...but decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away.”