Youth Quotes
Mick Boyle: She says I lost so much time because of you, Michael. I lost the best years of my life.
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Fred Ballinger: You know what's the difference between you and me?
Mick Boyle: What.
Fred Ballinger: Ultimately, I never liked life well enough.
Mick Boyle: What.
Fred Ballinger: Ultimately, I never liked life well enough.
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Fred Ballinger: [to doctor]My daughter says I'm apathetic. Is it... is it that obvious?
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Lena Ballinger: Julian's an ass because... I'm really good in bed.
Fred Ballinger: I know.
Lena Ballinger: What do you mean you know?
Fred Ballinger: You're my daughter. And in all modesty, I was a wonder between the sheets. [Lena laughs hysterically]
Fred Ballinger: It's true.
Fred Ballinger: I know.
Lena Ballinger: What do you mean you know?
Fred Ballinger: You're my daughter. And in all modesty, I was a wonder between the sheets. [Lena laughs hysterically]
Fred Ballinger: It's true.
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Mick Boyle: I read somewhere that tear ducts can produce tears for three days without stop.
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Queen's Emissary: Her majesty the queen would be *honored* to confer a knighthood upon you this coming June.
Fred Ballinger: Good.
Queen's Emissary: Her majesty the queen will be *de*-lighted to learn you have accepted.
Fred Ballinger: Her majesty the queen has never been *de*-lighted at anything.
Fred Ballinger: Good.
Queen's Emissary: Her majesty the queen will be *de*-lighted to learn you have accepted.
Fred Ballinger: Her majesty the queen has never been *de*-lighted at anything.
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[after much resistance, Fred tells Lena what Julian said about Paloma Faith] Lena Ballinger: You didn't have to tell me that.
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Luca Moroder: It is an amazing feeling climbing, you know? A real sense of freedom.
Lena Ballinger: All I feel is fear.
Luca Moroder: That is an amazing feeling too, you know?
Lena Ballinger: All I feel is fear.
Luca Moroder: That is an amazing feeling too, you know?
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Pale Teenager: I saw you in that film that you've played a father who never knew his son. And he meets him for the first time in a highway diner when his son is already 14 years.
Jimmy Tree: Nobody saw that movie!
Pale Teenager: There was that dialogue that I really liked. When your son says: Why weren't you a father to me?And you say: I didn't think I was up to it.At that moment I understood something really important.
Jimmy Tree: What?
Pale Teenager: That no one in the world feels up to it. So there is no reason to worry. Bye...
Jimmy Tree: Nobody saw that movie!
Pale Teenager: There was that dialogue that I really liked. When your son says: Why weren't you a father to me?And you say: I didn't think I was up to it.At that moment I understood something really important.
Jimmy Tree: What?
Pale Teenager: That no one in the world feels up to it. So there is no reason to worry. Bye...
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[last lines] Fred Ballinger: [sitting in his wife's room]I waited till visiting hours to come and see you. They don't know, Melanie. The children don't know their parents ordeals. Sure, they know certain details, striking elements. And they know what they need to know to be on one side or the other. They don't know that I trembled the first time I ever saw you on stage. And that the orchestra behind my back was laughing at my falling in love. And my unexpected fragility. They don't know that you sold of your mother's jewellery in order to help me with my second piece, when everyone else was turning me down, calling me a presumptuous, inelegant musician. I think they don't know that you too, and you were right that you thought I was a presumptuous, inelegant musician at that time. And you cried so hard. Not because you sold you mother's jewellery, but because you sold your mother. They don't know that we were together, you and I, despite all the exhaustion, and the pain, and the hardship. Melanie, they must never know that you and I, despite everything, liked to think of ourselves as A Simple Song.Look at me. [she staring blankly out the window in her dementia]
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Miss Universe: I appreciate irony, but when it is drenched in poison, it is drained of its force and reveals something else...
Jimmy Tree: [pregnant pause]What?
Miss Universe: Frustration!
Jimmy Tree: [pregnant pause]What?
Miss Universe: Frustration!
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Fred Ballinger: Did you take a piss today?
Mick Boyle: [nods in affirmation]Twice. Four drops. You?
Fred Ballinger: The same. More or less.
Mick Boyle: More? Or less?
Fred Ballinger: Less.
Mick Boyle: [nods in affirmation]Twice. Four drops. You?
Fred Ballinger: The same. More or less.
Mick Boyle: More? Or less?
Fred Ballinger: Less.
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Mick Boyle: [on phone]Julian, this is your father. Even though at this point, based on the evidence, I'm not so sure you're my son.
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Shy Screenwriter: I am timid and insecure. My parents never gave me any encouragement. I've never had a girlfriend. And I have some serious doubts about my sexual orientation.
Mick Boyle: Stop it. You're not going to move me.
Shy Screenwriter: Well, I has polio. [Mick laughs]
Mick Boyle: Stop it. You're not going to move me.
Shy Screenwriter: Well, I has polio. [Mick laughs]
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Mick Boyle: What do you need band-aids for?
Fred Ballinger: I don't. I'm doing it out of solidarity with you.
Fred Ballinger: I don't. I'm doing it out of solidarity with you.
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Mick Boyle: Do you remember the other day when you told me you don't remember your parents any more?
Fred Ballinger: No, I... I don't remember.
Fred Ballinger: No, I... I don't remember.
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Fred Ballinger: What it would've been like... to have slept with Gilda Black?
Mick Boyle: Yeah... I wonder too.
Fred Ballinger: Liar!
Mick Boyle: Yeah... I wonder too.
Fred Ballinger: Liar!
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[first lines] Fred Ballinger: You can't smoke here.
Queen's Emissary: What, even outside?
Fred Ballinger: Not even inside.
Queen's Emissary: Uh, well Pardon me, Mr. Ballinger. Or may I call you Maestro? [drops his cigarettes onto the table]
Queen's Emissary: What, even outside?
Fred Ballinger: Not even inside.
Queen's Emissary: Uh, well Pardon me, Mr. Ballinger. Or may I call you Maestro? [drops his cigarettes onto the table]
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Luca Moroder: Hello. I am a mountaineer. And I teach climbing. I give lessons here at the hotel.
Lena Ballinger: Oh...
Luca Moroder: And you? What do you do?
Lena Ballinger: I have two jobs. I'm a daughter and I also an assistant to my father.
Lena Ballinger: Oh...
Luca Moroder: And you? What do you do?
Lena Ballinger: I have two jobs. I'm a daughter and I also an assistant to my father.
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Brenda Morel: You're old, you're tired, you don't know how to see the world any more, Mick. All you know how to see is your own death, which is waiting right around the corner for you.
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