Ben quotes from Queer as Folk (US)

Michael

[after Ben says that he's not going to Tibet] But you said it's what you need.

Ben

I've already got what I need... and I don't need to go to Tibet to find it. [They kiss]

Ben

He is hurting inside. And the more he's hurting the more he tries to hide it.

Debbie

What an incredibly kind, compassionate thing to say. You really are a hell of a nice guy.

Ben

Thank you, Debbie.

Debbie

Fuck nice.

Ben

I try not to think about it. Some days I even succeed.

Vic

I know what you mean. But then something always happens to remind me. Touch of the flu, someone donating sperm, a lover who dies...

Brian

You're taking him down with you.

Ben

[slams Brian into a locker] I do not need to be lectured by the biggest whore in Pittsburgh, you are fucking lucky you're not positive!

Ben

You don't understand anything.

Michael

Understand what?

Ben

What it's like to wake up every morning and remember 'oh yeah, I've got this thing,' because you don't have this thing. You never have to take a mouthful of meds, never knowing when they'll stop working, never knowing when a fucking cough or a fucking sniffle may land you in the hospital, because to you, Michael, it is just a fucking cough or a fucking sniffle! And every time I go to kiss you, or suck you, or fuck you, even when we're protected, even then, there is still this shitty nagging doubt that maybe, just maybe you could get infected!

Ben

What's Vic's new boyfriend like?

Michael

They're so alike it's uncanny.

Ben

Same interests? Same temperament?

Michael

Same disease.

Ben

Michael, please!

Michael

Please what? All it would take is a quick jab in the vein and it'd be over in a flash. Hardly feel a thing and then I'd be just like you.

Ben

I don't want you to be like me!

Michael

You said you want someone who knows what you're going through. Who wakes up every morning and suddenly remembers 'hey that's right, I've got this thing,' who thinks every time he gets a cold or the flu, 'this is it, this is the end,' who's filled with the resentment and anger 'cause he can never have kids, and who has to shoot himself up with steroids because his lover died, and he's scared shitless he's next and who has to drive away the person he loves and who loves him! Because he doesn't understand! Well, now I will!

Ben

No, please don't! For gods sake, stop!

Michael

No, you stop! Stop using this shit! Stop hurting yourself. And stop hurting us.

Ben

How old are you?

Hunter

How old do you want me to be?

Debbie

There must be some place you can go, a nice foster family?

Ben

Yeah, it's better than the streets.

Hunter

Yeah? At least my client's pay to fuck me.

Emmett

[About Brian and Justin getting back together] Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?

Ben

Yes, you are seeing it, the most historic reunification since Germany.

Emmett

What happened to the fiddler?

Michael

He fell off the roof.

Ben

So... did you see it? What'd it look like?

Brian

Did it have your cute little turned up nose, button eyes, and perfectly shaped penis?

Michael

You really think so?

Ben

Hey.. hey!

Michael

It's the size of a peanut... the baby.

Ben

So I got a call telling me my nephew was in the hospital... which was surprising since I don't have a nephew.

Hunter

You do now... Unc.

Brian

It's Batman and the new Robin!

Ben

Better not tell the old Robin that.

Ben

Maybe next year we all should go [to the fairy gathering]... Brian how 'bout you?

Brian

I'd rather have my tongue super-glued to a lesbian's twat.

Ben

I thought the gay gene provided us all with an innate ability to re-decorate, accessorize, and arrange flowers.

Michael

I think mine's recessive.