Bert Di Grasso quotes from The White Lotus

Bert Di Grasso

They used to respect the old. Now we're just reminders of an offensive past everybody wants to forget.

Bert Di Grasso

You always think there's gonna be a homecoming. The embrace of a woman... who tells you you've done all right. Well, there is no homecoming. Not for me, not anymore.

Albie Di Grasso

God. It just seems like the body would naturally stop getting horny once you're past the age of procreation, you know? Like at 50, you would just stop.

Dominic Di Grasso

Fifty? Fifty's not that old.

Albie Di Grasso

It just seems undignified.

Bert Di Grasso

I'm still virile, by the way. I could still impregnate a woman.

Dominic Di Grasso

Oh.

Albie Di Grasso

No girl should have to be exposed to an old guy's junk.

Bert Di Grasso

It's not like it was ever so beautiful to look at anyway. I mean, it's a penis. It's not a sunset.

Bert Di Grasso

Your mistake was being sloppy.

Dominic Di Grasso

What are we talking about?

Bert Di Grasso

That's what's unforgivable. A man does what he has to do. But you keep it tight. If you're sloppy, it's like you're rubbing her face in it. Bad form.

Dominic Di Grasso

Thanks for the tip. You know, I don't think you were as discreet as you think you were regarding your own affairs.

Bert Di Grasso

Affairs. They weren't affairs, they were nothing. They were peccadilloes.

Bert Di Grasso

They own a house where they shot the best American movie ever made.

Albie Di Grasso

No, it's not.

Bert Di Grasso

No? Why not? I think so.

Albie Di Grasso

Well, yeah, I mean, you would.

Bert Di Grasso

All right, what's that supposed to mean?

Albie Di Grasso

It's because you're nostalgic for the solid days of the patriarchy.

Dominic Di Grasso

They're undeniably great movies.

Albie Di Grasso

Men love The Godfather because they feel emasculated by modern society. It's a fantasy about a time when they could go out and solve all their problems with violence and sleep with every woman... And then come home to their wife who doesn't ask them any questions and makes them pasta.

Bert Di Grasso

Hey, hey, hey. It's a normal male fantasy.

Albie Di Grasso

No, movies like that socialize men into having that fantasy.

Dominic Di Grasso

Movies like that exist because men already do have that fantasy. We're hard-wired.

Bert Di Grasso

Mm. Comes with the testosterone.

Albie Di Grasso

No. Gender is a construct. It's created.

Bert Di Grasso

You spent all that money on Stanford, he comes back brainwashed.

Bert Di Grasso

You can't really be surprised, can you?

Dominic Di Grasso

By what?

Bert Di Grasso

Well, that he's running around with an escort.

Dominic Di Grasso

What do you mean?

Bert Di Grasso

You've normalized it for him.

Dominic Di Grasso

Right, like you normalized it for me.

Bert Di Grasso

Oh, I never ran around with hookers.

Dominic Di Grasso

I don't run around with hookers either.

Bert Di Grasso

Dom. Didn't you run around with that exact hooker? You gave her the key to my room.

Dominic Di Grasso

You know the reason I am the way I am is because of you.

Bert Di Grasso

You're blaming me for your situation? That's rich.

Dominic Di Grasso

Do you think you were so discrete? Do you? I mean, how many nights did I hear Mom cry herself to sleep? Get real. Everybody knew, Dad. Everybody knew. Everybody knew.

Bert Di Grasso

We had a great marriage.

Dominic Di Grasso

Oh, my God. You are deluded. You made her life hell my entire childhood. Do you have amnesia?

Bert Di Grasso

If I made her life hell, why'd she stay with me?

Dominic Di Grasso

I have no idea. She didn't know any better. She was a martyr. I don't know.

Bert Di Grasso

She loved me.

Dominic Di Grasso

She was a bitter woman. And she died a bitter woman, and she knew about everything you did. Believe me. You were just too self-involved to even notice that. Yeah, and you know what, I... I don't blame you for my situation, but I sure fucking could. Because you never... showed me how to love a woman. You never... showed me how to be intimate. You never showed me how to put others first. You always put yourself first. Always. So I did the same thing.

Bert Di Grasso

I loved your mother. And she loved me.

Dominic Di Grasso

It's not that simple.

Bert Di Grasso

Yes, it is.

Dominic Di Grasso

No wonder they all left. Who would I have been if I lived here?

Bert Di Grasso

You wouldn't have lived here, you would've left. There are people who stay and there are people who leave.

Dominic Di Grasso

And I'm someone who leaves?

Bert Di Grasso

Hmm, 'cause you got wanderlust. You get that from me.