Dean: Listen, I didn’t wanna be somebody’s husband, okay? And I didn’t wanna be somebody’s dad. That wasn’t my… goal in life. For some guys it is – wasn’t mine. But somehow I’ve… it was what I wanted. I didn’t know that. And it’s all I wanna do. I don’t want to do anything else. That’s what I want to do. I work so I can do that.
Cindy: I’d like to see you have a job where you don’t have to start drinking at 8 o’clock, in the morning, to go to it.
Dean: No, I have a job that I *can* drink at 8 o’clock in the morning. What a luxury… you know? I get up for work, I have a beer, I go to work, I paint somebody’s house – they’re excited about it. I come home, I get to be with you. What’s… Like, this is the dream.
Cindy: Doesn’t it ever disappoint you?
Dean: Why? Why would it disappoint me? I could still do whatever I could do.
Cindy: [Over Dean] Because you have all this potential.
Dean: So what? Why do you have to fucking make money off your potential?
Cindy: Look, I’m not even saying you have to make money off it. Do you miss it?
Dean: [Over Cindy] What does potential mean? What does even potential mean? What does that mean “potential”? Potential for what? To turn it into what?