Danny Concannon quotes from The West Wing

C.J.

It's just, I know we have a lot to talk about and I don't want to leapfrog any of it, but it was kind of wonderful to just...

Danny

Not talk.

C.J.

Not even a little.

C.J.

No, but what I asked you before.

Danny

When you propositioned me for sex?

C.J.

Yeah. That's not going to happen. Donna Moss needs a place to stay, I told her she could stay with me.

Danny

Well, she can. You won't be there, she can have the place to herself.

C.J.

I can't do that.

Danny

Why not?

C.J.

Where will I tell her I'm sleeping?

Danny

Who cares what you tell her?

C.J.

She'll ask and I'll have to come up with some reason and my ears get red when I lie, I'll stammer, she'll figure it out.

Danny

Are you seriously telling me you're passing on a night in my bed because you don't know what you're gonna tell Donna Moss?

C.J.

It's not about Donna, it's about the fact that I'll spend the rest of the afternoon strategizing about how to explain it or not explain it or don't need to explain it or don't have an explanation for it or even for myself. I don't have a definition or an understanding of what it is or where it's going. I'll chew the question over in my brain quietly while other people are talking to me about death or affairs of state. We've put this off for seven years. This will keep another night.

C.J.

I missed the window. That's what's going on here. I... missed the window to figure out... how to do this.

Danny

How to...?

C.J.

Share my life with another person, how to be a partner or whatever condescending way you put it this afternoon.

Danny

Oh, I wasn't trying...

C.J.

I don't know how to do it. Maybe at one point I did, maybe I never did, but it's over now. It's too late. This and skiing. It's too late, it's not going to happen.

Danny

C.J...

C.J.

You said yourself, it's not an accident that this hasn't come together. This is who I am. I'm good at my job, Danny, I'm good at working, I'm not good at this.

Danny

You're right, you suck at it. You're going to need a tremendous amount of training. [pause] We're going to get good at new things.

C.J.

You don't know that.

Danny

I do.

C.J.

Don't make it sound like it's nothing.

Danny

You didn't miss it.

C.J.

What if I did?

Danny

You didn't miss it.

C.J.

What if we can't...

Danny

We'll figure it out. All of it. You can be scared. That's okay. But you're not going to walk away from me because you're scared. I'm not that scary.

C.J.

You make it sound like I'm trying to avoid you.

Danny

I didn't say that.

C.J.

I don't make booty calls.

Danny

You don't make any calls, kind of how it works out.

C.J.

What?

Danny

You're elusive, part of the draw.