How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from A Beautiful Mind.
Quote #1
HANSEN: This is going to be classic.
WOMAN: Maybe you want to buy me a drink.
JOHN: I don't exactly know what I'm required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me, but could we assume that I said all that? I mean, essentially we're talking about fluid exchange, right? So, could we just go straight to the sex?
This is our first introduction to John's smooth moves with the ladies. As a bunch of his grad school colleagues watch, John decides to cut through all the small talk that usually goes with flirting and get to what he really wants: sex. As you might imagine, the young lady he's talking to isn't impressed. He gets slapped immediately after the exchange.
Quote #2
ALICIA: I'm wondering, Professor Nash, if I can ask you to dinner. You do eat, don't you?
JOHN: Oh, on occasion, yeah. Table for one. Prometheus alone, chained to the rock with a bird circling overhead, you know how it is. No, I expect that you wouldn't know.
John has better luck with a student named Alicia, who comes to his office to ask him out. He's still super awkward, with all this talk about usually eating dinner alone like a god chained to a rock…but he kind of saves the convo by acknowledging that his smart and pretty date-to-be probably doesn't know much about that.
Quote #3
JOHN: I have a tendency to expedite information flow by being direct. I often don't get a pleasant result.
ALICIA: Try me.
JOHN: All right. I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves towards me indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities before we have sex. I am proceeding with those activities, but in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible. Are you going slap me now?
ALICIA [kisses him]: How was that result?
Whoa, John really has found his match, hasn't he? As he tells Alicia, his typical directness tends not to go over super well with the opposite sex, but Alicia is totally down with it. He's a lucky man.