Singles (1992)

Kyra Sedgwick: Linda Powell

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Quotes 

• Linda Powell : I think that, a) you have an act, and that, b) not having an act is your act.

• Linda Powell : I was just nowhere near your neighborhood. Look, I don't need to be your girlfriend or anything. I just wanna know you again.

  Steve Dunne : What took you so long?

  Linda Powell : I was stuck in traffic.

• Ruth : If you get married, will we still go out dancing?

  [cut to Linda and Ruth in a club] 

  Linda Powell : WE WILL ALWAYS GO OUT DANCING!

• Debbie Hunt : [advising Steve on Linda]  I'm telling you, that girl doesn't want you tugging at her bra strap. She wants drama, she wants mystery, she wants excitement...

  [cut to Linda talking with her friends] 

  Linda Powell : I don't want drama, I don't want excitement, I just want to trust him.

• Linda Powell : [on Steve]  This guy plays no games.

  [cut to Steve] 

  Steve Dunne : [to himself]  I've got to play this one perfectly.

• [Steve and Linda had sex, then he didn't call for four days] 

  Linda Powell : I just don't want to play games.

  Steve Dunne : Games? If I was playing games, I would have waited a week to call you... What I mean is...

• Linda Powell : So, who are your neighbors?

  Steve Dunne : That's Bailey, right there. He's a maitre d', he keeps us all in free meals. On the corner there, that's Debbie Hunt. She actually consumes men instead of food. And that is Cliff. He delivers flowers, has four jobs, works in the coffee shop around the corner. Upstairs is Janet Livermore. She works there too. She's saving up for architecture schooI. Cliff and Janet... That's it.

  Linda Powell : You sound like me, talking about my family.