Audrey Cobb Quotes in Thumbsucker (2005)

[first lines]

Audrey Cobb: You're good at stuff like this. I have to find something distinctive about myself.

Justin Cobb: You're beautiful, Audrey.

Audrey Cobb: Seriously.

[Mike and Audrey Cobb lay in bed together discussing the sudden success of Justin in his debating skills]

Audrey Cobb: You know, you should see him. He wears this tie.

[laughs]

Audrey Cobb: It's important to be supportive. And seen.

Mike Cobb: Can't believe it was almost easier when he was always fucking up.

Audrey Cobb: Yeah.

Mike Cobb: He looks like he thinks he's smarter than me.

Audrey Cobb: Well, maybe that's the way it goes.

[Justin talks to his mom at breakfast, who works at the rehab for celebrities]

Justin Cobb: How was work? How was work?

Audrey Cobb: It was really good actually. It was really good.

Justin Cobb: Doesn't that get depressing? Seeing all those people who have everything just throw it all away?

Audrey Cobb: No. It's humbling. Last night this guy said to me, I was born addicted to fantasy.

[Justin sneaks to his mother's place of work at the rehab center for celebrities, while outside he bumps into his mom's favorite celebrity smoking outside, Matt Schramm]

Matt Schramm: So, what, are you in juvie?

Justin Cobb: Yeah.

Matt Schramm: What's your poison?

Justin Cobb: Uh, dope.

Matt Schramm: What flavor?

Justin Cobb: I don't know. Everything I guess.

Matt Schramm: Mmm. Welcome to the fucking club. I never met a drug I didn't like.

Matt Schramm: [Matt notices Justin looking back at his mother through the open curtain in the window] Yeah, she's a tough one. In fact, I consider her my guardian angel.

Justin Cobb: Are you friends?

Matt Schramm: Mmm. It's deeper than that. A month or so ago, I fly in here. I work in TV. My studio commits me. Have you ever seen my show, The Line? You know, sometimes you gotta cross it.

Justin Cobb: I don't know.

Matt Schramm: Anyway. So naturally, I smuggle in a stash, right? Tucked up my ass. But it's too high up. I can't get to it, so... I take a spoon. Something goes wrong. There's all this blood everywhere.

[we see the flashback]

Matt Schramm: Jesus Christ! That's a lot of blood. There's Cobb there. She runs into my room. Sticks her hand in there. No Vaseline, just my blood.

Audrey Cobb: [in the flashback, we see Matt screaming and whimpering] There it is. There it is.

Matt Schramm: [laughs] That's heavy, right?

Justin Cobb: That's sick.

Matt Schramm: Yeah. She saved my life though. And that was the moment I finally got real about myself. I'm Matt. And I'm an addict. The other night she said to me, we're all addicted to...

Audrey Cobb: Something. Maybe an idea of ourselves, of our lives. Maybe some idea of success, or failure or...

Matt Schramm: What, you're scared, too?

Audrey Cobb: Being the mother of a 17-year-old is a trip.

Matt Schramm: Oh, yeah.

Audrey Cobb: Yeah?

[chuckles]

Audrey Cobb: You're supposed to have all the answers, and you don't have one.

Matt Schramm: Wow.

Audrey Cobb: Even the idea that once you have a family, you'll never be lonely again.

Matt Schramm: Heavy, huh? We don't like to admit it, but, uh, we're all just scared little animals.

[Matt gives Justin a hug for the share]

[Justin walks into Audrey's room after she knows he's been accepted to a college in New York]

Audrey Cobb: [sniffles] You know I'm happy for you. I am. It's just... I don't know. If it was Belgium, or Chile, or... Mars... somewhere I couldn't picture you, you'd just vanish. But New York. I can see you. Justin in Central park by the fountain.

[sniffles]

Audrey Cobb: Justin in a taxi on Fifth Avenue. Justin at Times Square. And Justin eating a fucking hot dog from a street vendor.

Justin Cobb: [Justin sits beside her] You can always come to visit me.

Audrey Cobb: [sniffles] Yeah.

[softly]

Audrey Cobb: Yeah. You're already gone.

Justin Cobb: No, I'm not.

Audrey Cobb: Yes, you are. I know you, Justin. I've been watching you my whole life.

Justin Cobb: [tearfully looks at Audrey] You have?

[Audrey nods while combing her hand through Justin's hair]