Queer as Folk (2000–2005)
Peter Paige: Emmett Honeycutt
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Quotes
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Emmett : [on coming out] Why tell anyone? Why lose everything when it can just be your little secret? You see, it was different for me. Everyone could tell who I was from the start and it didn't make my life any easier. I've been beaten up, cursed at, spit on, ignored... but in a way it was worth it. Because I have never had to live a lie and I'm not about to start now. Not for you, not for anyone.
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[walking up to a drunk Emmett]
Justin : We're going to Babylon. You wanna come?
Emmett : I'm not really in the mood for men or muscles or music... I'd rather stay here, get shit-faced.
Brian : You passed shit-faced about 10 miles back.
Emmett : So I've had a few cocktails. Does that qualify me for rehab? Besides, I've already been there.
Justin : Did you see Ted?
Emmett : And you'll never guess who's there with him.
Brian : Liza?
Justin : Robert Downey, Jr.?
Brian : Ben Affleck?
Justin : Matthew Perry?
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[at Brian's stag party]
Michael : Can I have your attention, please? I would like to offer a toast to the memory of Brian Kinney. Out-going, friendly, some would say to a fault, he never met a man he didn't like.
Ben : In his younger days, Brian dreamed of being a lawyer. He said, "I want to get innocent men off. I'll go to any length to get to the bottom of things."
Emmett : Later on in life, he devoted himself to volunteer work. It's true. If he heard that someone was laid up, or flat on his back, he'd come time and time again until they felt better.
Michael : So, now that he's gone, I'm sure that there's not a man in this room who wouldn't agree that he has left a hole that can never be filled. Here's to Brian!
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Emmett : [to Blake] If you break his heart, I will break your face.
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Emmett : Apparently Pittsburgh is not ready to handle the fact that not only are queers anatomically corrrect, but they actually use all their parts.
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Emmett : Pink champagne... yeah, uh, that's too nelly, even for me.
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Calvin : Pardon me, but aren't you Emmett Honeycutt, of the Hazelhurst, Mississippi Honeycutts?
Emmett : Why, yes I am. And you are?
Calvin : Ah...
Emmett : Oh, my God. You're Calvin Colpepper! You were on the boys' swim team in high school! I used to go to those meets just hoping your trunks would slip off.
Calvin : Oh, now...
Emmett : But I always thought you were, um...
Calvin : So did I.
Emmett : So what do you say we go back to my room and reminisce about old times?
Calvin : There's not that much to reminisce about.
Emmett : I know.
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Emmett : As Deb once said to me, "Em, you've been on more wieners than French's mustard."
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[Ted and Emmett are at a ski lodge, with Ted just about to blow out his birthday candles]
Ted : Every year I always wish for the same thing - a boyfriend. Someone to love who'll love me. This year I think I'm gonna wish for something else. The wisdom and maturity to realize that I won't find what I want by looking for it. Not expect someone else to give me what I never gave myself. That I'm not a half waiting to be made a whole. And even if that special person never comes along... I'll be just fine.
[Suddenly, Blake walks up behind Ted]
Blake Wyzecki : Ted?
Ted : Blake?
Blake Wyzecki : I thought it was you.
Ted : What are you doing here?
Blake Wyzecki : I'm on the gay ski team. And it's gay ski week.
Ted : Right. Uh, you remember...
Blake Wyzecki : Emmett.
Emmett : Yeah, wow, what a surprise. And Teddy was just about to hang up his skis.
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Emmett : I feel like the town slut on prom night. Again!
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Emmett : My flame has been rekindled and is burning brighter than ever.
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Emmett : I haven't seen so many dogs since 101 Dalmatians.
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Emmett : If you ask me, nobody makes a better woman than a gay man.
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[there is a huge line outside Babylon]
Emmett : Brian must be giving blow jobs to get customers. Honestly, he has no shame.
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Emmett : [talking to himself] Emm, don't be such a scaredy queen. No-one's stalking you. Why would anybody stalk you? Just because you're on the Channel 5 news, and everybody adores the Queer Guy. And of course there is the undeniable fact that you have an awesome ass.
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Emmett : It's pathetic. My screen name has more fun than I do.
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Emmett : A song and a snack can turn any moment into an occasion.
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Emmett : I prefer to think of them all as lunatics. Except for Aunt Lulah, who was supposed to be the crazy one. She was my only friend.
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Emmett : Everybody knows I'm terrible judge of character.
Brian Kinney : Yeah, just look at who he hangs out with!
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Brian Kinney : You know, he's a first. The first almost dead guy I sort of had sex with.
Michael : You had sex with Ted?
Emmett : You never had sex with Ted.
Michael : When did you have sex with...
Brian Kinney : Sort of sex. At this semi-orgy.