AUTUMN IN NEW YORK [2000]

He taught her how to live

She taught him how to love

Will: It's got nothing to do with you.

Lyn: Really?

Will: Really. I can only offer you what we've got, right now, just this.

Until it's over and it will be over.

I could've put off telling you but it wouldn't be fair, so...

Lynn: I don't understand this.

How can you be so sure? It's only been a few weeks!

Feelings change, situations evolve. You don't even really know me.

Will: Maybe not, but I know me. I'm sorry.

[when Will leaning to her]

 Will: Close enough?

Charlotte: Yes. I was hoping gravity would do the rest.

I can smell the rain.

When did I learn how to do that?

What should we do, Will, with this moment that we're in?

~Charlotte Fielding

Will: This isn't right. You... You are...

Charlotte: Young.

Will: Yes, and I am...

Charlotte: Old.

Will: Older.

Charlotte: Much older.

Will: Alright, much older.

The point is, I could put this off, but I genuinely like you.

So I want to be clear from the start, so there's no confusion later on, okay?

What I want to say to you is that all I'm able to offer you 

is this, what we have right now. Nothing more. Until it ends.

What I mean is, we have no future.

Charlotte: I know.

I'm sick.

Will: What do you mean?

Charlotte: It's my heart. Nobody even thought I'd last this long.

I could've put off telling you but I genuinely like you.

And I wanted to be clear right from the start

so there was no chance for any confusion later.

Dolly: What can I say, Will? Time is a thief.

One day you're rich as an Arab. 

Next day you're lucky if you can afford pistachio nuts.

[Will took a photograph of Katie]

It's funny. Most of us are young for what, about a minute and a half?

Not Katie. Katie will be young forever. So will the guy she married.

I console myself with that idea sometimes.

Who'd have thought what time had in store for her.

Will: I'm sorry, I should have called after the accident.

Dolly: On the other hand, time is in love with some people.

Like you, for instance. You look exactly the same.

Will: Please...

Dolly: Handsome. And up to your old tricks, looks like to me.

Leave her alone, Will. 

Will: We're totally wrong for each other, I know. I could be your father.

Charlotte: I prefer Uncle.

Will: Do you think we should break this off?

Charlotte: Afraid you might feel something?

Well, look at it this way.

We can have it real, which we both know is way better.

And you wouldn't have to pay full price, 

because in a year or so I'd be just a sob story you could use to bag more chicks.

Will: That is pathetic characterization.

Charlotte: I'm way out front in the love race.

Will: What? Love is not a race.

Charlotte: Our love is.

Will: Our love?

Charlotte: Yes, we're going for it, aren't we?

Will: I'm a food guy. Why don't you ask me about food?

Charlotte: Why are you the food guy? What is it about food?

Will: Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

Charlotte: Is that a quote?

Will: That's me.

Will: Look, I never pretended to be what I'm not.

Charlotte: Why?

Will: Why? Alright, fine, why? 

Because I felt like it! Because nothing stopped me!

Charlotte: What about love?

Will: Why do you have to be so juvenile?! 

It was nothing! It was nothing! It meant nothing!

If I could be different... I would.

Charlotte: What about love?

Will: You know what? 

This was all wrong. This was a mistake, right from the beginning.

You're a kid, I'm a creep.

You've got better things to do with your last... with your time, then spend it with a man like me.

Charlotte: You never talk to me. You never tell me what to do.

Dolly: Charlotte, take a good look at me. You want me to tell you what to do?

Charlotte: Yes! You're my family! You're my family.

You're supposed to take care of me.

John: Don't bullshit me, what did you do?

Will: I had sex with Lynn McHale up on your roof.

John: You're kidding me?

Will: No, I'm not kidding you.

Charlotte found out. Now she's gone. Totally.

John: I'm really sorry you did that.

Will: I blew it.

John: You can't get her back?

Will: I blew it.

John: So?

Will: So, I just go back to the way I was.

John: How are you gonna do that?

Will: It's just gonna get worse. The more attachment on both sides, leading to what?

Is now or later, right?

I leave her a few months from now, she... No, this is better. This is much better.

[lean on John] I wish the fuck I'd never met her.

John: I hate to tell you, but there's only 2 kinds of love stories.

Boy loses girl, girl loses boy, that's it. Somebody always get left behind.

Try and avoid that, you'll end up an old man looking at the mirror toasting yourself an eggnog at Christmas.

Will: I don't care!

John: You're going to die in your own arms!

Will: I don't care! I want it over with now!

Lisa: I really just wanted to meet you. And maybe... I don't know...

Will: What? Tell me.

Lisa: It's not big deal.

I've always had a fantasy that you were looking for me.

And all you really wanted was to say that you were sorry.

Will: Lisa, I am.

Will: I need to talk to you.

Charlotte: I think you've wasted enough of my time.

Will: What I did was very wrong. And stupid.

I have no excuses.

I did what I did because I was scared.

Charlotte: You were a coward!

Will: Can you forgive me?

Charlotte: You betrayed me! For what? Because you got the shakes?

Will: I was scared.

Charlotte: You don't think I'm scared?!

You don't think I'm hanging onto my courage by my fingernails?!

[Will try to hug her]

Don't touch me! Get away from me! Get out of here! Just go!

You're not good enough.

Will: I know... I know I'm not.

Can you let me love you? Please?

Please, please let me try again.

Will: She doesn't have long. Weeks. Maybe less.

Lisa: And they can't do anything for her?

Will: No, her doctor says when it's hopeless at the end, surgery could be an option.

Heroic surgery, she calls it.

That's why I'm out looking for someone to make sure that when the times comes,

it's a hero that performs it.

I haven't found anybody yet though.

I can't find anybody who's even willing to attempt it. I will!

I'm going to find someone because I can't lose her!

It won't happen. She's too young.

I'm sorry. I'm here, but I have no right to be here. 

There's no excuse for what I did to you, Lisa. 

You were my child. You needed me.

I'm so sorry.

Charlotte: What's more important is, what do you want for Christmas?

Will: No, you already gave me my present.

Charlotte: I forgot. Did you like it? [Will nod] What was it again?

Will: Misery, heartbreak, pain, happiness, love, life.

Charlotte: I remember now.

Will, hug her: What can I give you?

Charlotte: More of this.

Charlotte: What were you doing in Ohio?

Will: I had a meeting with heart specialist. He's willing to operate.

Charlotte: That's exactly what I didn't want you to do.

You went behind my back. You lied to me. This is what we talked about...

Will: Cut it out! Stop!

Charlotte: No, we talked about that!

Will: You do not want to die! You want to live!

Charlotte: You think I haven't been through this? So many times!

I don't want to give people hope when there isn't any.

Will: Why not? Maybe we need hope.

Maybe I need to know that I've done everything that I could do.

Charlotte: What would I do, Will, if you weren't here?

Where would I be, seriously?

Will: You'll never have to worry about that.

Charlotte: I'll do whatever I have to do.

I'll tear up the papers, I'll tell the doctors. Whatever you want.

Cause I really want... I don't want to leave you.

Will: "Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.

The bird and wing together, go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew, not the lark, not you, can die as others do."

Charlotte: What have I done to you?

Will: You ruined me for other women.

Charlotte: I saved you for them.

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SHALL WE DANCE [2004]

Step Out Of The Ordinary
 

The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. 
You have to hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. 
Let her go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. 
Throw her back, like you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor. 
And then finish, like she's ruined you for life. 

[Paulina]

[Bobbie]: ...and stop looking at my ass. 

[John Clark]: I'll try. 

[Paulina]: What made you wanna dance? 

[John Clark]: You. 
Looking out that window, right there. 
You could see it from the train. 
Every night, I'd come home from work & I'd look for you, your face... 
you looked on the outside the way I was feeling on the inside. 

[Paulina]: I was watching you, too. 
From the window, I saw you practicing on the platform.  
That night I said all those thing to you, I didn't think I'd ever see you again. 
But you kept coming back. 

*****

RUNAWAY BRIDE [1999]

Catch Her If You Can

[Maggie Carpenter]: Is there one 'right' person for everyone?

[Ike Graham]: No, but I think attraction is mistaken for rightness. 

[Maggie Carpenter]: I wanted to tell you why I run - sometimes ride - away from things. 

[Ike Graham]: Does it matter?

[Maggie Carpenter]: I think so.  

[takes a deep breath] 

When I was walking down the aisle, I was walking toward somebody who didn't have any idea who I really was. 

And it was only half the other person's fault, because I had done everything to convince him that I was exactly what he wanted. 

So it was good that I didn't go through with it because it would have been a lie. 

But you - you knew the real me. 

[Ike Graham]: Yes, I did. 

[Maggie Carpenter]: I didn't. 

And you being the one at the end of the aisle didn't just fix that. 

[Maggie Carpenter]: Benedict. 

[Ike Graham]: Arnold. 

[Maggie Carpenter]: I love Eggs Benedict, I hate every other kind. 

I hate big weddings with everybody staring. 

I'd like to get married on a weekday while everybody's at work. 

And when I ride off into the sunset, I want my own horse.

[Ike Graham]: Should I be writing this down?

 You're a cynical, exploitive, mean-hearted creep 
who wouldn't know real love if it bit him in the armpit. 

[Maggie Carpenter]

Always a bride, never a bridesmaid! 

[Maggie Carpenter]

*****

FIRST KNIGHT [1995]

Their Greatest Battle Would Be For Her Love

For the first in my life, I wanted what all wise man say can't last; 
what can't be promised or made to linger any more than sunlight. 

I don't want to die without having felt its warmth on my face.

[King Arthur]

Only a fool wants what he can not have.

[King Arthur]

There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.

[King Arthur]

What we hold to be right, and good, and true is right and good and true for all men. 

Otherwise we're just another robber tribe.

[King Arthur]

There's a peace only to be found on the other side of war. 

If that war should come, I will fight it!

[King Arthur]

Lancelot, just a thought. 

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; 
and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life? 

I may be wrong.

[Arthur]

You risked your life for another. There is no greater love.

[Arthur] 

I dare not kiss so lovely a lady. I have but one heart to lose.

[Lancelot]

Love has many faces. I may look on you differently, but not with less love.

[Guinevere]

I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul.

[Guinevere]

Self-sacrifice is very easy. 

It's having to sacrifice someone you love that puts your convictions to the test.

[Malagant] 

*****

PRETTY WOMAN [1990]

She Walked Off The Street,

Into His Life And Stole His Heart

Vivian: Don't you wanna to get outta here?
Kit: Get outta where? Where the fuck you wanna go?

Kit: Maybe we should get a pimp, you know. Carlos really digs you.
Vivian: And then he'll run our lives and take our money. No.
Kit: You're right. We say who, we say when, we say how much.

Vivian, pull out condoms from her boot: Pick one. I got red, I got green, I got yellow.
I'm out of purple, but I do have one gold circle coin left.
The condom of champions. The one and only. Nothing is gettin' through this sucker.
What d'you say?
Edward: A buffet of safety.
Vivian: I'm a safety girl.

Vivian: You don't sleep, you don't do drugs, you don't drink, you hardly eat.
What do you do, Edward? Cause I know you're not a lawyer.
Edward, smirking: That's right. I buy companies.
Vivian: What kind of companies?
Edward: I buy companies that are in financial difficulty.
Vivian: If they have problems, you must get 'em for a bargain, huh?
Edward: Well, the company I'm buying this week, I'm getting for the bargain price of about one billion.
Vivian, gulp: A billion dollars?
Edward: Yes.
Vivian: Wow. You must be really smart, huh? I only got through the 11th grade.
How far did you go in school?
Edward: I went all the way.

Phil, on the phone: Edward, I know a lot of nice girls.
Edward: No, you don't.
[watching Vivian singing in the tub]
Besides, I already have one.

Edward: Vivian, I have a business proposition for you.
Vivian: What do you want?
Edward: I'm gonna be in town until Sunday. I'd like you to spend the week with me.
Vivian: Really?
Edward: Yes. I'd like to hire you as an employee.
Would you consider spending the week with me? I will pay you to be at my beck and call.
Vivian: I'd love to be your 'beck and call girl', but you're a rich, good-lookin' guy.
You could get a million girls free.
Edward: I want a professional. I don't need any romantic hassles this week.
Vivian: If you're talkin' 24 hours a day, it's gonna cost you.
Edward: Oh, yes, of course. How much?
Vivian: 6 full nights, days too. 4,000.
Edward: 6 nights at 300 is 1,800.
Vivian: You want days too.
Edward: 2,000.
Vivian: 3,000.
Edward: Done.
Vivian: Holy shit!

Vivian: I would've stayed for 2,000.
Edward: I would've paid 4. I'll see you tonight.
Vivian: Baby, I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna wanna let me go.
Edward: 3,000 for 6 days. And Vivian, I will let you go.

Vivian: You're late.
Edward: You're stunning.
Vivian: You're forgiven.

Edward: The truth is, it really is totally irrelevant whether I like this man or not.
I will not let myself become emotionally involved in business.
Vivian: I know. 
Kit's always saying to me, 'Don't get emotional when you turn tricks.'
That's why no kissing. It's too personal.
It's like what you're saying; you stay numb, you don't get involved.
When I'm with a guy, I'm like a robot, I just do it. I mean... except with you.
Edward: Of course, not with me.
Edward: You and I are such similar creatures, Vivian. We both screw people for money.

Edward: Wake up, time to shop.
[handed her a credit card] If you have any trouble using this card, have them call the hotel.
Vivian, sigh at the card: More shopping.
Edward: I'm surprised you didn't buy more than one dress yesterday.
Vivian: Wasn't as much fun as I thought it was gonna be.
Edward: Why not?
Vivian: They were mean to me.
Edward: Mean to you?

Vivian: People are looking at me.
Edward: They're not looking at you, they're looking at me.
Vivian: The stores are not nice to people. I don't like it.
Edward: Stores are never nice to people, they're nice to credit cards.

Edward: I'm very sorry. I'm not happy with Stuckey at all for saying or doing that.
But he is my attorney. I've known him for 10 years.
He thought you were some kind of industrial spy. The guys' paranoid.
Vivian: Are you my pimp now? You think you can pass me around to your friends?
I'm not some little toy.
Edward: I know you're not my toy, Vivian.
I hate to point out the obvious, but you are, in fact, a hooker!
And you are my employee!
Vivian: You don't own me. I decide, okay? I say who, I say when, I say who...
Edward: I refuse to spend the next 3 days fighting with you.
I said I was sorry. I meant it! That's the end of it!
Vivian: I'm sorry I ever met you. I'm sorry I ever got into your stupid car!

I've never had anyone make me feel as cheap as you did today.
~Vivian Ward

I'm sorry.
I wasn't prepared to answer questions about us.
It was stupid and cruel.
I didn't meant it.
I don't want you to go.
~Edward Lewis

Vivian: First guy I ever loved was a total nothing. Second was worse.
My mom called me a bum magnet.
If there was a bum within a 50-mile radius, I was completely attracted to him.
That's how I ended up here. I followed bum number 3.
So here I was, no money, no friends, no bum.
Edward: And you chose this as your profession?
Vivian: I worked at a couple fast food places, parked cars at wrestling. And I couldn't make the rent.
I was too ashamed to go home.
That's when I met Kit. She was a hooker and made it sound so great.
So one day I did it. I cried the whole time.
But then I got some regulars and, you know...
It's not like anybody plans this, it's not your childhood dream.
Edward: You could be so much more.
Vivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
Edward: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.
Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?

Edward: The fact that this will be our last night together, and you'll finally be rid of me.
Vivian: You've been pretty tough to take.
Edward: My business is almost over, so I'll be going back to New York.
I'd really like to see you again.
Vivian: You would?
Edward: Yes, I would, so I've arranged for you to have an apartment, to have a car,
a wide variety of stores guaranteed to suck up to you anytime you want to go shopping.
Everything's done.
Vivian: What else?
You gonna leave me some money by the bed when you pass through town?
Edward: Vivian, it really wouldn't be like that.
Vivian: How would it be?
Edward: For one thing, it would get you off the streets.
Vivian: That's just geography.

Edward: Vivian, what is it you want? What do you see happening between us?
Vivian: I don't know.
When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often.
And I would pretend I was a princess trapped in a tower by a wicked queen.
And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword.
And I would wave.
And he would climb up the tower and rescue me.
But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me,
"Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."

Edward: This is all I'm capable of right now. It's a very big step for me.
Vivian: I know. It's a really good offer for a girl like me.
Edward: I've never treated you like a prostitute.
Vivian: You just did.

Phil: Come on, Edward! I gave you 10 years! I devoted my whole life to you!
Edward: That's bullshit. This is such bullshit!
It's the kill you love, not me!
I made you a very rich man, doing exactly what you loved!

Edward: Why are you leaving now?
Vivian: Edward, there'll always be some guy, even some friends of yours,
thinkin' he can treat me like Suckey, thinking that it's allowed.
What are you gonna do? You gonna beat up everybody?
Edward: That's not why you're leaving.
Vivian: You made me a really nice offer.
And a few months ago, no problem. 
But now everything is different, and you've changed that. And you can't change back.
I want more.
Edward: I know about wanting more. I invented the concept. The question is how much more?
Vivian: I want the fairy tale.
Edward: Impossible relationships. My special gift is impossible relationships.

Edward: Stay. Stay the night with me.
Not because I'm paying you, but because you want to.
Vivian: I can't.

I think you have a lot of special gifts.
~Vivian Ward

Vivian: We think you got a lot of potential, Kit De Luca.
Kit: You do? You think I got potential?
Vivian: Oh, yeah. Don't let anybody tell you different, okay?

It must be difficult to let go something so beautiful.
~Barney Thompson

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