Baze Bazile quotes from Life Unexpected

Baze

Like little due - quarter back Jones?

Baze

Jones you stand up little dude - my ass.

Baze

(to his dad) I don't want to talk especially to you. I want to find this guy and beat his head in.

Baze

(to Lux) Don't worry kiddo, one way or another the truth about this guy is finally coming out.

Baze

(to his dad) Emma's helping me. You're the one that made me choose, remember? She's my family now.

Baze

I want to be the one to fix this. I want to be the one to make this right. I'm going to rebuild this bar from the ground up. Fix everything else in my life that's broken.

Baze

Alright kiddo, whoever you're looking pretty for is one lucky kid.

Baze

(to Jones) Little dude, you better keep your hands to yourself.

Baze

Our mistake was asking permission. We don't ask. We take.

Baze

(to Emma) I'm not jealous okay, and apparently I'm not even your boyfriend.

Baze

Just think of it like a good deed. Like when you donate hair or hang out with old people. Makes you feel good inside.

Cate

Ryan, let's not talk about high school, okay? Everybody knows that I hated high school, so...

Ryan

What are you talking about, who hates high school, Cate? What, did you have a pizza face or something?

Cate

No!

Ryan

Like an unrequited love affair with the driver's ed teacher?

Cate

Ryan, will you...Ryan, stop!

Ryan

Or were you one of those girls who got knocked up on prom night? (pauses when he sees Cate's reaction) Did you get knocked up on prom night?

Baze

More like winter formal...

Baze

I'm you're daughter.

Lux

You're my what?

Fern

Look, an ambush is not the way to win your child back.

Baze

I know. Before you say anything else, you have got to hear me out, okay? (pauses, turns to Cate) Go ahead.

Cate

Okay, so I'm not a soccer mom, and he, he can barely spell PTA.

Baze

Don't even know what it is.

Cate

Yeah. But we're here, and...okay, we're just not gonna go anywhere until you approve us.

Fern

Cate, listen--

Cate

No, you listen. I gave her up 16 years ago because someone in your department promised me that there would be someone great to adopt her, and no one did, and if you would have left her with us 16 years ago, how can you not leave her with us now? She has been in seven foster homes, and she has hated every single one of them. Are they really that much better than our homes? Are we that much worse? Because we can make room for her.

Baze

Get batteries. Not fight on the lawn. Look, we don't have it all worked out yet, you know?

Cate

We can give her the one thing that no one else ever has: love

You know what, Nate? You can kiss the bar good-bye. I'm done.

Baze

You know what?

What?

Baze

I'm done. You can take your bar, because I am done with you, and I am done with all of this. Sixteen years ago, I was afraid to tell you--and you know, it seems funny, given everything--because I didn't want to disappoint you and let you down, but somehow, I have managed to do that every day since. You were never gonna believe that I was responsible. You were never gonna believe in me. So I don't, I don't know why I came to this dinner. Oh, wait. I do know why. It's because you threatened to take away the one means I have of actually supporting my kid, because that's what I'm trying to do here, Dad, whether you believe it or not, is support my kid, because that's what I thought parents did!

I supported you every day of your life!

Baze

Not in the way that counts. You call me crazy, but I thought that, that, that loving your kid meant that you actually made them feel like you did. You know what? You ask me why I want to do this, why I want to be a dad. It's because I don't want to turn my back on Lux, the way that you...

The way what, huh? Come on, say it. Like I did to you? That's the story you tell yourself, to keep from thinking that you're a screw-up? You blame me?