Anything Else (2003)

Christina Ricci: Amanda

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• Amanda : I've had a crush on you since we met. Couldn't you tell, the way I was ignoring you?

  Jerry Falk : Well, there was something compelling about your apathy.

• Jerry Falk : Do you love me?

  Amanda : What a question. Just because I pull away when you touch me?

• Amanda : Okay. Okay, I slept with Ron Keller. But I didn't do it because I care about him.

  Jerry Falk : No? What then? To punish him?

  Amanda : No, I did it because I had to find out if there was something wrong with me. Because I can't sleep with you, the person that I love. I had to know if I was some kind of freak, or frigid. I had to know if I could even get aroused anymore and have an orgasm.

  Jerry Falk : And can you?

  Amanda : Yeah. It's good news. I can.

• Amanda : That's wonderful. You'll really knock 'em dead out there. Idiots who are total losers in New York, go to L.A. and become millionaires.

• Jerry Falk : [after learning his girlfriend cheated on him]  OK. Where's the rifle? I need the rifle. I'm going to blow my brains out!

  Amanda : Oh, don't be so middle class! I did it as much for you as for me.

• Amanda : Am I late?

  Jerry Falk : Not if we go by Rocky Mountain time.

• Amanda : You're the only one I've ever dated who've known exactly what to get me. That's because you have a special vision of me.

  [Jerry opens his present] 

  Jerry Falk : Ah, "No Exit" and "The Flies", Jean-Paul Sartre, that's amazing, thank you so much!

  Amanda : It was between that and O'Neill. I couldn't decided whose nihilistic pessimism would make you happier.

  Jerry Falk : You know I think it was Tennessee Williams who said that "the opposite of death is desire". And I desired you from the first moment we met.

• Jerry Falk : Okay, alright, I want out of this relationship.

  Amanda : Jerry, Jerry don't say that. Don't say that, you know I need you.

  Jerry Falk : Need me? How can you need me when all of these positive feelings happen with everybody but me?

• Jerry Falk : I'd love to hear you sing sometime.

  Amanda : Oh, I can't sing publicly. I'm too fat.

  Jerry Falk : Fat? Sorry, did you say fat?

  Amanda : But, I have these new diet pills. They take away your appetite; but, they increase your sexual drive.

• Amanda : Who do you need protection from?

  Jerry Falk : Burglars, rapists, the Gestapo.

• Amanda : Jerry, don't be mad. Don't be mad. And don't be mad at Ron, he was just trying to help.

  Jerry Falk : Of course he was. Ron? How could I be upset at Ron? In fact, remind me please to put him on my Christmas list if I can figure out how to make a letterbomb.

• Amanda : I told you, shrinks don't work for me, I know how to fool them.

• Jerry Falk : What do you mean you can't? It's not natural, Amanda. We never sleep with each other.

  Amanda : Well, I told you. I'm going through a rough patch.

  Jerry Falk : Yeah, I'll say. It's been six months!

  Amanda : I said you could sleep with other women.

  Jerry Falk : I - I don't love other women. I - I don't want to sleep with other women. I - I love you. What did I do - what did I do to turn you off? I don't - I don't get it.

  Amanda : Nothing! You did nothing. God, why is it always about you? You have such an ego!

  Jerry Falk : Ego?

  Amanda : Well, what do you want me to do? Just, you know, grit my teeth, close my eyes, hold myself stiff and let you do it to me?

  Jerry Falk : Well, you know, it's - it's getting to the point where I - I may settle for that.

  Amanda : I mean, sometimes I think it's because you remind me of my father.

  Jerry Falk : You know, you - you once told me that, eh, you thought your father was sexually attractive.

  Amanda : Well, that's not the part of him that you remind me of.

• Bob Stiles : In addition to acting, she's also a very good singer.

  Amanda : I try to sing. But, then I hear someone like Billie Holiday and - forget about it.

  Brooke : She's your favorite.

  Jerry Falk : Favorite!

  Amanda : But, you can't listen to the CDs right? They sterilize the sound.

  Jerry Falk : Didn't I say that? It's exact - I absolutely agree with you. It totally sterilizes it. That's so funny.

• Amanda : What are you thinking about?

  Jerry Falk : Everything. When we first met. When, when Brooke found out. Do you remember that? Remember when, eh, when we checked into that hotel as S. and Z. Fitzgerald. Or, how we, how we made love *everywhere*. God, everywhere. You know, when I think of all the - the risky places that lust overcame the two of us, it blows my mind.

  Amanda : You know Fireside Memorial Chapel is a McDonalds now?

• Amanda : I'm back. But if you don't want me, I understand.

  Jerry Falk : You're back?

  Amanda : I couldn't be without you. I tried but I just couldn't.

  Jerry Falk : You know, you didn't move in with your girlfriend April, like you said you did. I found out you went to Naples with Tony Hankin.

  Amanda : Well, you can understand. He wanted me to go with him to Naples and Rome. It sounded so romantic. Those are all places that I've dreamed of and I thought that's what I wanted. But - I missed you too much.

  Jerry Falk : But, of course, you made love with him.

  Amanda : Yes. But, I thought of you. You were really the person I was making love to in Naples and in Florence, in Venice, on the airplane 40,000 feet in the air...

  Jerry Falk : Okay, enough.

  Amanda : Oh, yeah, and at the Vatican, all I could think about, while we were doing it, was how much you would love that ceiling! So, I'm back. I'm home.

• Jerry Falk : It's exactly as Dobel says, there is truly a paucity of veridical talent in the world.

  Amanda : When will I get to meet this polymath?

• Jerry Falk : You ate?

  Amanda : I couldn't help it. I was starving when I got back from the audition. So, I had a little sliver of that Sara Lee cream cheese cake and then I had another one and you know what I'm like when I get started. Before I knew it, I had finished the whole cake.

  Jerry Falk : You ate the whole Sara Lee cream cheese cake?

  Amanda : And then I figured, what the hell, so I finished off the cold spaghetti in the refrigerator and I ate that last lobster tail and then I heated up some chicken pot pie.

  Jerry Falk : Jesus, is there any furniture left in the house?

  Amanda : I'm so fat. It's disgusting.

  Jerry Falk : How could you eat right before dinner?

  Amanda : I'm sorry. I was, I'm so angry at myself for screwing up. I couldn't help it.

  Jerry Falk : You know, I reserved a corner booth.

  Amanda : It's okay. You can order and I'll just get a club soda. I'm dieting anyway.

• Jerry Falk : Oh, look at this record. Cole Porter. This is a fantastic - really pretty songs on here. Let me get you this as a little present. Can I do that? You know, I was actually listening to this last night and I thought of you.

  Amanda : You were listening to Cole Porter and you thought of me? You must really have a crush on me.

  Jerry Falk : I do.

  Amanda : I'd say it's fatal.

  [kiss] 

• Amanda : What I love about Bogart is that he's so intensely urban. You know, the cigarette, the five o'clock shadow, always in some seedy nightclub.

  Jerry Falk : Didn't I say that exact same thing, about, Frank Sinatra, actually. Urban! I even used the term.

• Amanda : "My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night."

  Jerry Falk : Millay! Edna Millay! She's my favorite poet.

• Dr. Phil Reed : So, if I push on your chest, here, do you feel any pain?

  Amanda : Well, you know, it's right under the breast that I get a shooting kind of pain.

  Dr. Phil Reed : You're left breast?

  Amanda : Yes. Yes.

  Dr. Phil Reed : Okay.

  [continues with his hands-on examination] 

• Amanda : It is a maddening problem. Oh, we had to try *every* kind of foreplay!

• Amanda : l am not living in the house with a loaded rifle.

  Jerry Falk : Do you not trust me to keep a firearm without hurting anyone? Am l an imbecile?

  Amanda : ls that a trick question?

• Amanda : Sleep with other women. Just don't tell me about it.

• Amanda : I've met someone and I've developed very strong feelings for him.

  Jerry Falk : You met someone?

  Amanda : Yes.

  Jerry Falk : Have you been having an affair?

  Amanda : No. No, and I don't want to. I can't do all that lying and sneaking around.

  Jerry Falk : Where did you meet him?

  Amanda : In passing.

  Jerry Falk : Well you, you must have spent some time with him if have feelings for him.

  Amanda : We've had a few drinks, but nothing heavy. Just a few chats.

  Jerry Falk : So you have been seeing someone.

  Amanda : I've had a couple of casual conversations.

  Jerry Falk : Have you slept with him?

  Amanda : My god, Jerry! What do you think I am?

  Jerry Falk : Have you?

  Amanda : Once. And very quickly. I had to see if we were sexually compatible. I *refuse* to let myself have an affair.

• Amanda : You were listening to Cole Porter and you thought of me? You must really have a crush on me.

  Jerry Falk : I do?

  Amanda : I'd say it's fatal.