Abbie Quotes in 20th Century Women (2016)

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Abbie Quotes:

  • Dorothea: What is that?

    Abbie: It's The Raincoats.

    Dorothea: Can't things just be pretty?

    Jamie: Pretty music is used to hide how unfair and corrupt society is.

    Dorothea: Ah, okay so... they're not very good, and they know that, right?

    Abbie: Yeah, it's like they've got this feeling, and they don't have any skill, and they don't want skill, because it's really interesting what happens when your passion is bigger than the tools you have to deal with it. It creates this energy that's raw. Isn't it great?

  • Abbie: Whatever you think your life is going to be like, just know, it's not gonna be anything like that.

  • Abbie: I gave him beer, and then I taught him how to verbally seduce women. Then we drove drunk, but I stopped that, and then he kissed Trish, and then we walked home.

    Dorothea: Ah.

    Abbie: You're not mad? You're mad.

    Dorothea: You get to see him out in the world, as a person. I never will.

    Abbie: [pulls a photo of Jamie from a stack of Polaroids] Just... there.

  • Dorothea: You got birds?

    Abbie: They're a boy and a girl, and that they're monogamous for life, so if one of them dies, then the other one will die like a week later.

    Dorothea: Wow. Well how 'bout Maximilian and Carlotta? You know, they deserve something grand if they're gonna be monogamous their whole lives.

  • Abbie: You *cannot* let her *sleep* here if she's not having *sex* with you. It's disempowering.

  • [Talking about Abbie and Robert's baby]

    Annabelle: Of course he'll be gorgeous.

    Kelly: Will he be gay?

    Abbie: My God, will your kids be stupid?

  • Robert: What? Eight martinis and you're stuffed?

    Abbie: Yep.

    Robert: Well, it doesn't take much to crack your egg, does it?

  • Abbie: I have something to tell you.

    Robert: Is it bigger than a breadbox?

    Abbie: Heh, not yet.

  • Abbie: Robert, I'm offering you a choice. You can either be the baby's father or his uncle.

  • Abbie: I'm going to lean on you, and you just lean on me. Is this good for you?

    Lisa: This is great.

    Abbie: Look! We're a semicolon walking home!

  • Lisa: I have this patient, a boy. He's 12, he's terminal. He's amazing - he tells me something new every day; he tells me everything.

    Abbie: He's a kid and he's scared.

    Lisa: You want a mirror?

  • [Abe and Abbie are discussing Abbie's mother]

    Abe: A woman her age is supposed to move to Florida. Who moves to Vermont?

    Abbie: She likes the cold.

    Abe: She should - she invented it.

  • Abbie: Mrs. Petrakis, I'd like you to click your heels together three times, and when you wake you'll be back in your own room in Kansas.

    Mrs. Petrakis: ...Kansas?

  • Abbie: I'm a heart surgeon, for Chrissakes. I should have seen it coming. Even the Indians warned Custer, "Don't come over today - we're a little cranky."

  • [Abbie watching himself on home movies]

    Abbie: I couldn't catch a ball. Well, it 's hard to catch with your face. I had the word "Spalding" written on my forehead 'til I was about six.

  • [Abbie reveals his father is alive]

    Abbie: He lives in Los Angeles.

    Lisa: What does he do?

    Abbie: He's a professional embarrassment.

  • Abe: I've lived a thousand different lives in a thousand different places, kid.

    Abbie: Great, but when was the last time you opened a window?

  • Lisa: Let me get this straight: is he an actor or isn't he?

    Abbie: Exactly.

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