Celine Quotes in Waking Life (2001)

Celine: I've been thinking also about something you said.

Jesse: What's that?

Celine: Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come through over time. Everybody says they have been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander The Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else.

[last lines]

Céline: Bauby, 43, a renowned journalist, family man and free spirit, was planning a book about female revenge.

Celine: So you're telling me that successful relationships... are made in heaven? Notfounded on the daily practicality... of two people being prepared... to tolerate the imperfections of one another?

Robert: It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place... that we don't know about.

Celine: So you also reject the idea... that love is merely an emotional adaptation... to a physical necessity?

Robert: Completely.

Celine: Are you serious?

Robert: Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.

Celine: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.

Robert: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.

Celine: But you nearly got killed.

Robert: But I didn't... and here we are.

Celine: Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?

Robert: None at all.

Celine: And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?

Robert: I know that.

Celine: Then why do you believe it?

Robert: Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer.

Celine: Well, I guess that makes two of us.

Robert: Are you ready?

Celine: As I'll ever be.

Robert: Then let's go.

Celine: If word got around that I had been liberated for half a million dollars, I could never show my face in polite society again. Diamonds have no value except that which is placed upon them.

Celine: I'd like to make a withdrawal.

Robert: I thought we agreed there'd be no cliches.

Robert: Are you taking me to a hospital? Because I don't want to die in a hospital.

Celine: I'm not going to take you to a hospital.

Robert: WHAT? What do you mean you're not taking me to a hospital? I demand to be taken to a hospital!

Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.

Celine: What?

Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business. About money, and how it flows relentlessly back towards he who owns it. How to generate a profit from a loss, a loss from a profit, you are going to work. Now this may not strike you as very palatable. It may make you want to vomit. But you will, I assure you, get used to the taste. And pretty soon, you'll be spooning it down and asking for more like all the other kids.

Celine: Despite your crummy poem, I came to see you and all you could do was humiliate me and turn me away. I thought you were decent, but it turns out you're just a lying, cheating bastard like all the rest.

Celine: "Kill me but don't touch the girl." You should be on television.

Celine: You have the demeanor of a man whose partner has left him for an aerobics instructor.

Robert: And don't ask where I'm going.

Celine: Don't even imagine that I care.

Robert: Exactly the problem!

Naville: Celine, why don't you give me the gun?

Celine: Because as he dreamt, I shall save his life with an arrow, an arrow of my love for him.

[she shoots Robert in the heart]

Robert: Why are you such a pain to be with?

Celine: Because you tied me to a chair all night.

Celine: Remember what they didn't teach you at Harvard Business school.

Robert: I didn't go to Harvard Business school!

Celine: That's a figure of speech, Robert.

Celine: What's wrong?

Robert: What's wrong, you crazy bitch, is I thought you were gonna shoot me! THAT'S what's wrong!

[Naville's car, parked outside the cabin, rocks violently and banging is heard from inside the trunk]

Celine: Someone let me out of this trunk! Robert, he's going to kill you! He doesn't want the money, okay? He's going to kill you! Just run, Robert, run!

Celine: You don't know how I feel. Only the exceptionally rich can know how I feel.

Celine: "Kidnap For Beginners", Chapter One. Have you even asked for a ransom yet?

Celine: You're in a lot of trouble, you know. My father's gonna have you killed. You realize that? Tortured first, naturally. Then he's gonna have you killed.

Celine: Look, they weren't trying to kill you. They were trying to confuse you, and scare you.

Robert: Yeah, before they killed me.

Celine: I'm not interested in you, or your novel, or any other pathetic ambition you have to change your miserable, mundane existence.

Celine: I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

Celine: Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Jesse: Alright, I have an admittedly insane idea, but if I don't ask you this it's just, uh, you know, it's gonna haunt me the rest of my life

Celine: What?

Jesse: Um... I want to keep talking to you, y'know. I have no idea what your situation is, but, uh, but I feel like we have some kind of, uh, connection. Right?

Celine: Yeah, me too.

Jesse: Yeah, right, well, great. So listen, so here's the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the capital.

Celine: What?

Jesse: Come on. It'll be fun. Come on.

Celine: What would we do?

Jesse: Umm, I don't know. All I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow morning at 9:30 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel, so I was just going to walk around, and it would be a lot more fun if you came with me. And if I turn out to be some kind of psycho, you know, you just get on the next train.

Jesse: Alright, alright. Think of it like this: jump ahead, ten, twenty years, okay, and you're married. Only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to have, y'know. You start to blame your husband. You start to think about all those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you'd picked up with one of them, right? Well, I'm one of those guys. That's me y'know, so think of this as time travel, from then, to now, to find out what you're missing out on. See, what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything. I'm just as big a loser as he is, totally unmotivated, totally boring, and, uh, you made the right choice, and you're really happy.

Celine: Let me get my bag.

Celine: I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

Celine: When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms-I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone-the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love.

Celine: You know, I have this awful paranoid thought that feminism was mostly invented by men so that they could like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We're all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.

Celine: You know, I've been wondering lately. Do you know anyone who's in a happy relationship?

Jesse: Uh, yeah, sure. I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other.

Celine: Hmf. Yeah. People can lead their life as a lie. My grandmother, she was married to this man, and I always thought she had a very simple, uncomplicated love life. But she just confessed to me that she spent her whole life dreaming about another man she was always in love with. She just accepted her fate. It's so sad.

Jesse: I guarantee you, it was better that way. If she'd ever got to know him, I'm sure he would have disappointed her eventually.

Celine: How do you know? You don't know them.

Jesse: Yeah, I know, I know. It's just, people have these romantic projections they put on everything. That's not based on any kind of reality.

Celine: Yeah.

Jesse: OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking... I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?

Celine: I don't know. Wait a minute, I'm not sure... I don't...

Jesse: Yeah, hang on, hang on. It's a, it's a totally scattered thought. It... which is kind of why it makes sense.

Celine: If there's any kind of magic in this world... it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know it's almost impossible to succeed... but who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.

Celine: I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

Jesse: Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less.

Celine: Actually, I think I had decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we've talked so much, I don't know anymore.

Celine: Why do I make everything so complicated?

Celine: You know what I want?

Jesse: What?

Celine: To be kissed.

Jesse: Well I can do that.

Jesse: This friend of mine had a kid, and it was a home birth, so he was there helping out and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gonna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all - everything is so finite. But don't you think that that's what, makes our time, at specific moments, so important?

Celine: Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?

Celine: We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, it's no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice...

Jesse: Right. Fizzles out. Yeah, I mean, I don't want that. I hate that.

Celine: I hate that too, y'know.

Jesse: Why do you think everybody thinks relationships are supposed to last forever anyway?

Celine: Yeah, why. It's stupid.

Celine: I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it was like not really being dead. People can invent the best and the worst for you.

Celine: Maybe we should meet here in five years or something.

Jesse: All right, all right, five year- Five years! That's a long time!

Celine: It's awful! It's like a sociological experiment!

Celine: No, then it's like some male fantasy. Meet a French girl on the train, fuck her, and never see her again.

Jesse: [stops Celine and positions her in front of him at arm's length]

Celine: What?

Jesse: Uh... I'm gonna take your picture. So I never forget you or, uh, or all this.

Celine: Okay. Me too.

Celine: Even though I reject most of the religious things I can't help but feeling for all those people that come here lost or in pain, guilt, looking for some kind of answers. It fascinates me how a single place can join so much pain and happiness for so many generations.

Celine: I don't think we should sleep together. I mean, I want to, but since we're never gonna see each other again, it will make me feel bad. I'll wonder who else you're with. I'll miss you.

Celine: I know. It's not very adult. Maybe it's a female thing. I can't help it.

Jesse: Let's see each other again.

Celine: But then the morning comes, and we turn back into pumpkins, right?

Jesse: I feel like this is, uh, some dream world we're in, y'know.

Celine: Yeah, it's so weird. It's like our time together is just ours. It's our own creation. It must be like I'm in your dream, and you in mine, or something.

Jesse: And what's so cool is that this whole evening, all our time together, shouldn't officially be happening.

Celine: Yeah, I know. Maybe that's why this feels so otherworldly.

Jesse: Yeah. So, uh, were we having our first fight back there?

Celine: v

Jesse: Yeah, I think so, I think we were.

Celine: Well, even if we were a little bit, y'know. Why does everyone think conflict is so bad. There's a lot of good things coming out of conflict.

Celine: Each time I wear black, or like, lose my temper, or say anything about anything, you know, they always go, "Oh it's so French. It's so cute." Ugh! I hate that!

Celine: Did your parents divorce?

Jesse: Yeah. Finally. They should have done it a lot sooner, but they stuck together for a while for the "well-being of my sister and I", thank you very much.

Celine: I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.

Jesse: Would you be in Paris by now, if you hadn't gotten off the train with me?

Celine: No not yet. What would you be doing?

Jesse: I'd probably be hanging around the airport, reading old magazines, crying in my coffee cause you didn't come with me.

Celine: Aww... Actually, I think I'd probably have gotten off the train in Salzburg with someone else.

Jesse: Oh, yeah? Oh, I see. So, I'm just that dumb American momentarily decorating your blank canvas.

Celine: I'm having a great time.

Jesse: Really?

Celine: Yeah.

Jesse: Me too.

Jesse: There's these breeds of monkeys, right, and all they do is have sex, all the time, you know? And they turn out to be the least violent, the most peaceful, the most happy, you know? So maybe fooling around isn't so bad.

Celine: Are you talking about monkeys?

Jesse: Yes I'm talking about monkeys.

Celine: Ah, I thought so...

Celine: Wait! I have to say something stupid.

Celine: Its just... its depressing, no? That the... the only thing we're gonna think of is when we're gonna have to say goodbye tomorrow.

Jesse: Well, we could say goodbye now. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning.

Jesse: You're close with your grandmother?

Celine: Yeah. i think it's because i always have this strange feeling that i'm this very old woman laying down, about to die. You know, that my life is just her memories or something.

Jesse: That's so wild.

Jesse: Do you believe in reincarnation?

Celine: Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting.

Jesse: Yeah, right. Well, most people, you know, a lot of people talk about past lives and things like that, you know? And even if they don't believe it in some specific way, you know, people have some kind of notion of an eternal soul, right?

Celine: [Celine's song] Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand

Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

[last lines]

Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

Jesse: I know.

Celine: Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.

Jesse: You know, I think that book that I wrote, in a way, was like building something. So that I wouldn't forget the... details of the time that we spent together. You know, like just a reminder that... that once we really did meet! You know, that this was real! That this happened!

Celine: Celine: I'm happy you're saying that, because... I mean, I always feel like a freak, because I'm never able to move on like... this! You know. People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! Even getting laid! I actually don't do that... I will miss on the other person the most mundane things. Like I'm obsessed with little things. Maybe I'm crazy, but... when I was a little girl, my mom told me that I was always late to school. One day she followed me to see why. I was looking at chestnuts falling from the trees, rolling on the sidewalk, or... ants crossing the road, the way a leaf casts a shadow on a tree trunk... Little things. I think it's the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them, that move me, and that I miss, and... will always miss. You can never replace anyone, because everyone is made of such beautiful specific details. Like I remember the way, your beard has a bit of red in it. And how the sun was making it glow, that... that morning, right before you left. I remember that, and... I missed it! I'm really crazy, right?

Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

Jesse: Oh, God, why didn't we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn't we do that?

Celine: Because we were young and stupid.

Jesse: Do you think we still are?

Celine: I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.

Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.

Celine: Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women.

Jesse: I think I'm one of those guys.

Celine: I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.

Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you.

Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway.

Jesse: You see?

Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?

Celine: I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

Jesse: Oh, God, why weren't you there, in Vienna?

Celine: I told you why.

Jesse: Well, I know why, I just - I wish you would have been. Our lives might have been so much different.

Celine: You think so?

Jesse: I actually do.

Celine: Maybe not. Maybe, we would have hated each other eventually.

Jesse: Oh what, like we hate each other now?

Celine: You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate.

Jesse: Do you have kids?

Celine: Yes, two -

[gasps]

Celine: Shit!

Jesse: What?

Celine: I left them in the car! With the windows rolled up! It was six months ago! Think they're okay?

[laughs]

Celine: So, I want to try something.

Jesse: What?

Celine: [hugs him] I want to see if you stay together or if you dissolve into molecules.

Jesse: How'm I doing?

Celine: Still here.

Jesse: Good, I like being here.

Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?

Celine: Why?

Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, "Where the fuck were you?"

Celine: [laughing] No - you thought I'd be here today?

Jesse: I'm serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.

Celine: Okay, that's - I know that's not true, but that's sweet of you to say.

Jesse: I think it is true.

Celine: Do you think you would have finished your book if you were fucking someone every five minutes?

Jesse: I might have welcomed the challenge.

Celine: Do I look any different?

[long pause]

Celine: I do?

Jesse: I'd have to see you naked.

Jesse: What do you think were the chances of us ever meeting again?

Celine: After that December, I'd say almost zero. But we're not real anyway, right? We're just, uh, characters in that old lady's dream. She's on her deathbed, fantasizing about her youth. So of course we had to meet again.

Celine: Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past.

Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.

Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?

Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.

Jesse: Yeah?

Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get water every time.

Jesse: No, no, I - I - I mean what if your grandmother had lived a week longer, or, you know, or passed away a week earlier, days even. You know things might have been different. I believe that.

Celine: You can't think like that, it's...

Jesse: No, I mean, I know you shouldn't on most things, but - It's just, on this one it seemed like something was off, you know?

Jesse: So what kind of songs do you write? I didn't know you did that.

Celine: What kind?

Jesse: Yeah, sure.

Celine: I don't know, just songs.

Jesse: Like?

Celine: Like, some are about, you know, people, uh, relationships. One's about my cat.

Jesse: Sing one.

Celine: No, I can't, I don't have a guitar.

Jesse: Oh, co- come on. A cappella.

Celine: No, no, no. I'm not singing a song without a guitar. You're nuts!

Jesse: Why not? It's...

Celine: No, okay. Not now. No.

Jesse: One.

Celine: No.

Jesse: If not now, when? Wanna meet here in six months with a guitar? You know, I'll fly all the way over here, you may or may not make the metro...

Celine: [laughing] Okay, that's funny.

Celine: So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that.

Jesse: I haven't? How weird.

Celine: They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.

Celine: There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much.

Celine: Were you there in Vienna, in December?

Jesse: I heard this story once about when the Germans were occupying Paris and they had to retreat back. They wired Notre Dame to blow, but they had to leave one guy in charge of hitting the switch. And the guy, the soldier, he couldn't do it. You know, he just sat there, knocked out by how beautiful the place was. And then when the allied troops came in, they found all the explosives just lying there and the switch unturned, and they found the same thing at Sacre Couer, Eiffel Tower. Couple other places I think...

Celine: Is that true?

Jesse: I don't know. I always liked the story, though.

Celine: It's amazing what perverts we've become in the past nine years.

Celine: One night I heard some noise on my fire excape, so I called 911. And the cops came eventually...

Jesse: Yeah like three hours later.

Celine: [laughing] Yeah, after I had been raped and killed about 10 times.

Jesse: At least now we don't have to pretend that each new sexual experience is a life-altering event.

Celine: I know. By now, you know, you've stuck it in so many places, it's like about to fall off.

Jesse: Yeah, you know, and I can't realistically expect that you've become anything but a total ho, at this point.

Celine: Yeah, thank you.

Celine: Tell him to pick you up at Quai Henri Quatre.

Jesse: Oh, shit. K-kay...

Celine: Henri Quatre. Quai...

Jesse: K-k-k...

Celine: Henri Quatre.

Jesse: [laughing] On...

Celine: What's wrong with you? No, do you want be to - Henri Quatre.

Jesse: Henry Four?

Celine: Yes.

Jesse: Come one, why didn't you say so.

Celine: [laughing] I'm sorry, okay?

Celine: I love my kitty!

Jesse: What's his name?

Celine: Che.

Jesse: Che?

Celine: Mmm hmm.

Jesse: Uh huh...

Celine: What?

Jesse: Commie.

Celine: An imperialist country can use that kind of thinking to justify their economic greed, you know. I - human rights...

Jesse: Is there any particular imperialist country you have in mind, there, Frenchie?

Celine: Mmm, no, not really...

Jesse: [describing how she looks different] Skinnier, I think. A little thinner.

Celine: Did you think I was fat before?

Jesse: [laughing] No!

Celine: Yeah, you thought I was a fatty. No, you thought I was a fatty! Yeah, you, you wrote a book about a fat French girl!

Jesse: No, listen...

Celine: [laughing] Oh, no...

Jesse: Seriously, all right, you look beautiful.

Jesse: Do you believe in, like... ghosts or spirits?

Celine: Uhm, no.

Jesse: No?

Celine: No.

Jesse: Ok, what about reincarnation?

Celine: Not at all.

Jesse: God?

Celine: No.

[Both Laugh]

Celine: That sounds... that sounds terrible. No, no, no. But, at the same time I don't wanna be one of those people that don't believe in any kind of magic, you know?

Jesse: So then, astrology.

Celine: Yes, of course!

Jesse: There we go, right!

Celine: I mean, that makes sense, right? You're a Scorpio, I'm a Sag, so we get along.

Jesse: Okay, I realize there are a lot of serious problems in the world.

Celine: Okay, thank you.

Jesse: Okay. I mean, I don't even have one publisher in the whole Asian market.

Celine: They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day.

Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.

Celine: You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Celine: Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand

Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?

Celine: I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

Celine: There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much.

Celine: Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past.

Jesse: I am giving you my whole life ok? I got nothing larger to give, I'm not giving it to anybody else. If you're looking for permission to disqualify me, I'm not gonna give it to you. Ok? I love you. And I'm not in conflict about it. Okay? But if what you want is like a laundry list of all the things that piss me off, I can give it to you.

Celine: Yeah, I want to hear.

Jesse: Okay well, number 1, you're fucking nuts! You are. Good luck! Find somebody else to put up with your shit for more than like 6 months okay? But I, accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant. I know you're not gonna change and I don't want you to. It's called accepting you for being you.

Jesse: You're just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I'm just trying to make things better. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you're beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you're 80. I try to make you laugh.

Celine: Ok.

Jesse: All right, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I'm just some dog who's gonna keep coming back, then you're wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect, but it's real. And if you can't see it, then you're blind, all right, and I give up.

Celine: I feel close to you.

Jesse: Yeah?

Celine: But sometimes, I don't know? I feel like you're breathing helium and I'm breathing oxygen.

Jesse: [high pitched voice] What makes you say that?

[last lines]

Celine: Well, it must have been one hell of a night we're about to have.

Celine: You know what? The only time I get to think now is when I take a shit at the office. I'm starting to associate thoughts with the smell of shit.

Jesse: Ha ha. That is a good line. I gonna use that in a book some day.

Celine: I'm sure you will. And that'll be the best line in the book.

Celine: Still there. Still there. Still there. Gone.

Celine: One of the perks of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.

Celine: ...we don't have to spend our lives comparing ourselves to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Tolstoy...

Jesse: What about Joan of Arc, right, she was a teenager and she saved France, so...

Celine: Who wants to be Joan of Arc? Forget France, she was burnt at the stake and a virgin, okay. Nothing I aspired to. What a great achievement.

Celine: Now I know why Sylvia Plath put her head in a toaster!

Jesse: It was an oven.

Celine: You like to have sex, the exact same way, evvvvvvery time.

Jesse: When you got it, you got it.

Celine: Kissy kissy, titty titty, pussy

[snore]

Jesse: I'm a man of simple pleasures.

Mr. Oscar: Céline, we have to laugh before midnight.

Céline: We'll do our best, Mr. Oscar.

Mr. Oscar: Who knows if we'll laugh in the next life.

Céline: You're ill.

Mr. Oscar: I think I caught a cold killing the banker.

Céline: We're all a bit weird. A bit sluttish, too. The bigger the taboo, the more we like it, of course.

Celine: Or maybe you like to be the one in charge. Is that it? Would you like it better, if you have to take it... like an animal.

Jake McCallister: I'd slap you right now, but you'd probably like it.

Celine: Fine, but in the mean time, remember what I am.

Jake McCallister: Of course, you're a dirty... little... whore.