Gwen Cummings Quotes in 28 Days (2000)

Gwen Cummings: Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

Lily: The only thing I told you was how a pain in the ass you were.

Gwen Cummings: well I am a pain in the ass

Lily: Even a pain in the ass needs, someone, to take care of them. I didn't do that, I didn't and, I should have. I should have helped you with your homework, I should have walked you home after school. Sometimes I'd be walking with my friends and I'd see you half a block ahead, all alone. You were so little.

Gwen Cummings: Well, so were you

Lily: Yeh

Gwen Cummings: Well, I never asked for help so...

Lily: But you needed it, didn't you. I mean everybody does

Gwen Cummings: Yep... I'm sorry I make it so impossible to love me...

[crying]

Lily: You make it impossible for me not to love you

Gwen Cummings: I am having a bad day! The worst damn day of my whole damn life! If it is not too much to ask will you all just back the fuck off!

Gwen Cummings: [Breaking down] I'm sorry I make it impossible for you to love me.

Lily: [Consoling her] Oh, Gwen, you make it impossible for me not to love you.

Gwen Cummings: It was the most unbelievable episode. I wish you'd seen it. Everyone was losing their minds. What are you doing?

Andrea: Packing. What does it look like?

Gwen Cummings: You're not leaving for another couple of days.

Andrea: So? I am leaving. Might as well get ready. There's no point in making this room all homey if I'm only going to be here for only, like, 42 more hours.

Gwen Cummings: Come on. There's twenty minutes left til curfew. Let's get some ice cream. Satisify those sugar cravings of yours.

Andrea: No thanks.

[Sticks out her tongue to show she's been eating chocolate]

Gwen Cummings: You don't have to do this, you know.

Andrea: Do what? How do you know what I have to do? Have you ever left rehab before?

Gwen Cummings: No but I...

Andrea: Okay, but nothing. You've never left rehab before, so you don't know what you're talking about.

Gwen Cummings: True, but I have been a part of some very emotional sing outs...

Andrea: Oh, God. I'm sorry. You sang "Lean on Me" a few times. The stupidest freaking cheesy song ever. Oh well, my mistake. You must know about leaving rehab better than anyone.

Gwen Cummings: It's a tautology... it is what it is, be cause it is what it is... Like, why is the sky blue, because it reflects off the ocean, well why is is the ocean blue, because it reflects off the sky.

Eddie Boone: WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?

Gwen Cummings: I don't know

Gwen Cummings: Is that available stitched on a pillow somewhere?

Cornell: You know, if your counselor catches you using you could get in big trouble.

Gwen Cummings: I don't plan on discussing it with him.

Cornell: Too late.

Gwen Cummings: Yeah, I know I drink a lot, I know I do because I'm a writer and that's what I do, I drink. I'm not like those people out there, I can control myself! I can, if - that - if I wanted to, I could, if I wanted. I can! I can!

Gwen Cummings: Why do you want me Jasper? I am such a mess.

Jasper: Maybe I like mess.

Gwen Cummings: I'm not a lesbian!

Gwen Cummings: God, I love afternoons like this. You know what's missing in this afternoon? That I don't have a very dry vodka martini with two olives in a chilled glass. God, I miss that.

Eddie Boone: You know, lately I've been lying awake at night thinking of all the dumb-ass things I've done when i was messed up. One night last year, at dinner, I threw up all over my glazed ham. Then I was thinking, "Well, maybe nobody noticed."

Gwen Cummings: I don't think of it as a garnish.

Eddie Boone: Yeah, I'm a winner. Oh, God. You know what the worse one was? For me? My best friend in the whole world. Grew up playing ball, hunting and fishing. One Sunday morning, he walks in on me and his wife in bed. You never live that one down. Tell me one of yours.

Gwen Cummings: Excuse me?

Eddie Boone: What's the worse thing you ever did when you were messed up.

Gwen Cummings: Oh... Uh. I don't know

Eddie Boone: Oh, come on. Give me a couple, I'll pick one.

Gwen Cummings: I don't really remember any.

Eddie Boone: I just told you some stuff that's... you know.

Gwen Cummings: I'm a drunk. Drunks forget everything, you know?

Eddie Boone: Come on.

Gwen Cummings: Why? So I recount the last 15 disgusting years of my life to humilate myself? No thanks.

Eddie Boone: Why not?

Gwen Cummings: Because I don't feel like it. I don't feel like talking about it.

Eddie Boone: What's a matter? You too good for me?

Gwen Cummings: What, are you dense? Did your mom drop you on your head? I said No I don't want to talk about it, so just drop it.

[on telephone]

Lily Cummings: Hello?

Gwen Cummings: Hey, it's me, Gwen.

Lily Cummings: I know which me it is.

[after Andrea has cut herself]

Andrea: Just so you know, I wasn't trying to off myself or anything.

Gwen Cummings: Okay.

Andrea: It's just something I do sometimes.

Gwen Cummings: Doesn't it hurt?

Andrea: Feels better.

Gwen Cummings: Than what?

Andrea: Everything else.

Gwen Cummings: Nobody gets hurt collecting coins.

Jasper: Everybody hurts everybody it's the human condition!

Gwen Cummings: I don't feel fine.

Jasper: Well of coursre you don't feel fine, you're in deliverance country surrounded by a bunch of sober freaks!

Gwen Cummings: Andrea, does the phrase "in confidence" mean anything to you?

Andrea: You never said not to tell.

Gwen Cummings: Jasper, don't be a jerk.

Jasper: Yeah, well, Gwen, don't be a slut.