Freeheld (2015)
Michael Shannon: Dane Wells
Quotes
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[From Trailer]
[about Laurel's appeal being turned down]
Steven Goldstein : This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Their next meeting we show up with 100 protesters.
Dane Wells : Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys.
Steven Goldstein : I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
Dane Wells : I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*?
Steven Goldstein : I am. That is very hot.
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[From Trailer]
[about Laurel's upcoming appeal]
Toohey : If they say yes my tax dollars go to her girlfriend.
Dane Wells : Yeah. The same way your wife gets your pension if *you* die!
Toohey : Yeah, but she's my *wife*.
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[From Trailer]
Steven Goldstein : Hell! If you and I got married tomorrow, *I'd* be entitled to your benefits.
Laurel Hester : Wait, is that a proposal?
Dane Wells : Oh my god!
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Dane Wells : [to his police team] Who's coming to the meeting?
[no one responds]
Dane Wells : [angrily] Oh, don't put yourselves out. Laurel would back any of you up in a heartbeat. And she's dying! But hey, you know, she's a dyke, so who gives a shit? Cowards!