Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: I need my drinky.

Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: So, Ben with an "N"... what brings you to Las Vegas? Business convention?
Ben Sanderson: I came here to drink myself to death.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: Sarah, with an "H"?
Sera: With an "E". S-E-R-A. Sera.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: You know I love you, yeah?
Sera: Yeah, I know... I love you. I love you.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: I know a cool place in the desert.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: We could get prime rib. They got it on sale for $2.99. I love that dress.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: [when asked who he's speaking to by a woman at the bar] Little brown-nosed gnomes with a sling-shot.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Pawn Shop Owner: What can I do for you?
[Ben presents his Rolex watch to the pawn shop owner]
Pawn Shop Owner: Five hundred dollars.
Ben Sanderson: Five hundred dollars for a 1993 Rolex Daytona? I'll do it.

Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: [to a woman at the bar] What's your name?
Terri: Terri.
Ben Sanderson: Terri, I am going to buy you a drink.
Terri: I'm OK, thanks.
Ben Sanderson: Bud, please. Buy the lady a drink and another one for you. I'm Benjamin. Ben. Benny Goodman, that's me. I think you're sexy.

That's right. Look at those eyes. Sexy like a kitty cat.
[singing]
Ben Sanderson: You turn me on, bar-rum, you turn me on, bar-rum, you're not too long, you're not too short, you're not too round, bar-rum, you're like a cat, the cat in the hat. Look at those eyes. Honest to God. You're luminescent, baby. What?
Terri: You've been drinking all

day.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: So... why are you killing yourself?
Ben Sanderson: Interesting choice of words. I don't remember. I just know that I want to.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Peter: You're sick... that's all I have in cash. Now please, don't drink it in here.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Debbie: I think the nicest thing about the film actually is that we get to handle guns, and I had never done that before.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: What's up?
Ben Sanderson: I was looking for you tonight. I don't know if you've a boyfriend, or a girlfriend, but I thought maybe we could get some dinner.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Mr. Simpson: Well... what are you going to do now?
Ben Sanderson: I thought I might move out to Las Vegas.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: I think the tough times are finally behind me. There'll always be bad things, but... my life is good. It is as I want it to be. It's good. It's good being here with you.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: [Ben has been on another binge] I want you to see a doctor.
Ben Sanderson: Sera... I'm not gonna see a doctor. Perhaps now would be a good time for me to move back to a motel.
Sera: And do what? Rot away in a room? We're not gonna talk about that. Fuck you, we're not gonna talk about that!
[starts to cry]

Sera: You're staying here! You could do this for me. I've given you gallons of free will around here.
[throws her chopsticks on the table]
Sera: You could do this one thing for me!
[pause]
Sera: I have to go to work now.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Ben Sanderson: Nurse.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Sera: You know, I bring out the best in the men who fuck me. I mean, it's not easy, but I'm very good. I mean, it's amazing. It's like I've- I've worked for a really long time and: Boom. I just turn on a dime. I can just become who they want me to be, I walk into that room, I know right away: This is their fantasy. And I become it. I'm that service, you know. I just- I perform it

and I perform it well. I mean, I'm an equation most of the time, it's like 30 minutes of my body is... cost 300 dollars. Well, that's just to get into the room. And then, it's about 500 dollars after that, you know, we negotiate. But, ehm, it's a performance. It's definitely a performance.