The Rebound Quotes
In New York City, a single mom captivates her new neighbor, a much younger man.
Sadie - age 9: [not swayed from the topic] So, you like Mom. Are you two gonna date now?
Aram Finklestein: I don't know.
Sadie - age 9: You don't really know anything, do ya? I mean, she's kinda your girlfriend.
Frank Jr. - age 7: Are you gonna be our new dad?
Sadie - age 9: And, if so, who'll be our nanny?
Frank Jr. - age 7: Yeah, and what'll we call you?
Aram Finklestein: Jesus, I'm not being nominated to Supreme Court here, guys. I just had sex with your mother.
Aram Finklestein: [noticing a distressed mother in the next bowling lane glaring at him while grasping her child protectively] And when I say sex... I mean that I gave her... a nice massage.
Frank Jr. - age 7: [brightly] With sperm.
Aram Finklestein: I don't know.
Sadie - age 9: You don't really know anything, do ya? I mean, she's kinda your girlfriend.
Frank Jr. - age 7: Are you gonna be our new dad?
Sadie - age 9: And, if so, who'll be our nanny?
Frank Jr. - age 7: Yeah, and what'll we call you?
Aram Finklestein: Jesus, I'm not being nominated to Supreme Court here, guys. I just had sex with your mother.
Aram Finklestein: [noticing a distressed mother in the next bowling lane glaring at him while grasping her child protectively] And when I say sex... I mean that I gave her... a nice massage.
Frank Jr. - age 7: [brightly] With sperm.
Sadie - age 9: [while in a bowling alley] So does that mean you and Mom are gonna have a baby?
Aram Finklestein: Nooo.
Frank Jr. - age 7: I don't get it. You said that spurn makes a baby.
Aram Finklestein: "Sperm," and it does. You know, can we stop talking about this please, okay? I like your mother, and I think she likes me, and that's all that's important.
Sadie - age 9: And you also work for her.
Aram Finklestein: Nooo.
Frank Jr. - age 7: I don't get it. You said that spurn makes a baby.
Aram Finklestein: "Sperm," and it does. You know, can we stop talking about this please, okay? I like your mother, and I think she likes me, and that's all that's important.
Sadie - age 9: And you also work for her.
Lateefah: Aram, I know you took some women's studies course in college. But other than that, do you have any kind of experience that you think might have prepared you for this job?
Aram Finklestein: Uh... I used to by tampons for my mother.
Lateefah: You will fit in perfectly.
[shakes hands]
Lateefah: Yes.
Aram Finklestein: Uh... I used to by tampons for my mother.
Lateefah: You will fit in perfectly.
[shakes hands]
Lateefah: Yes.
Trevor: You see, we all hold our tension somewhere. For you it's in your shoulders, and just a little bit in your ass. With as much experience as I have, you can tell just by the way people walk
[suddenly adjusts her neck]
Trevor: , and even by the way they smile.
[another sudden adjustment]
Trevor: [sits down] No charge.
[suddenly adjusts her neck]
Trevor: , and even by the way they smile.
[another sudden adjustment]
Trevor: [sits down] No charge.
Sensei Dana: All of us, as women, have developed a reservoir of resentment and anger, and these reservoirs, put together, form an ocean, and this ocean is available for all of us to draw from. It holds the collective power of every woman who has ever been wronged. An inappropriate sexual remark, being underpaid for a job you've done better than a man, an ancestor who was a slave, or rice picker, or simply low man on the totem pole, a husband who has wronged you, who has cheated and lied to you, or you, or you, or you.
