How Far Would You Go To Become Someone Else
If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting
with myself.
[Tom Ripley]
[Dickie Greenleaf]: Everybody should have one talent, what's yours?
[Tom Ripley]: Forging signatures, telling lies... impersonating practically anybody.
[Dickie Greenleaf]: That's three, nobody should have more than one talent.
[Tom Ripley]: Don't you just take the past, and put it in a room in the basement, and
lock the door and never go in there?
That's what I do.
[Peter]: God, yes. Though in my case, it's probably a whole building.
Good things about Mr. Ripley? Could take some time.
Tom is talented. Tom
is tender. Tom is beautiful. Tom is a mystery. Tom is not a nobody.
Tom has secrets he doesn't want to tell me, and I wish he would.
Tom
has nightmares. That's not a good thing.
Tom has someone to love him.
That is a good thing.
Tom is crushing me. Tom is crushing me... Tom,
you're crushing me!
[Peter]
You know, people always say that you can't choose your parents,
but you
can't choose your children...
[Herbert Greenleaf]
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