Asteroid City (2023)

Jason Schwartzman: Augie Steenbeck

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• Augie Steenbeck : I still don't understand the play.

  Schubert Green : Doesn't matter. Just keep telling the story.

• Augie Steenbeck : Why does Augie burn his hand on the Quickie Griddle?

  Conrad Earp : Well, I don't even know myself, to tell you the truth. I hadn't planned it that way. He just sort of did it while I was typing. Is it too extraordinary for you?

  Augie Steenbeck : I guess the way I read it, he was looking for an excuse why his heart was beating so fast.

  Conrad Earp : Oh. Oh, what an interesting sentiment. I love that idea. Maybe he should say it. It's a very good line. No, I suppose not. Not necessary.

• Augie Steenbeck : You can't wake up if you don't fall asleep

• Midge Campbell : I do a nude scene. You want to see it?

  Augie Steenbeck : Huh? Did I say yes?

  Midge Campbell : You didn't say anything.

  Augie Steenbeck : Uh, I mean yes. My mouth... My mouth didn't speak.

• Midge Campbell : I mean, I think I know now what I realize we are. Two catastrophically wounded people who don't express the depths of their pain because we don't want to. That's our connection.

  Augie Steenbeck : Uh-huh.

• The Alien : [behind the scenes]  I don't play him as an alien, actually. I play him as a metaphor. That's my interpretation.

  Augie Steenbeck : Metaphor for what?

  The Alien : I don't know yet. We don't pin it down.

• Augie Steenbeck : I don't like the way that guy looked at us.

  Midge Campbell : What guy?

  Augie Steenbeck : The alien.

  Midge Campbell : Oh. How did he...? How did he looked at us.

  Augie Steenbeck : Like we're doomed.

  Midge Campbell : Maybe we are.

  Augie Steenbeck : Ah!

  Midge Campbell : What d'you just do?

  Augie Steenbeck : I burned my hand on a Quickie Griddle.

  Midge Campbell : Why?

  Augie Steenbeck : It's not clear.

• Actress : I'm not coming back, Augie. Then you take a picture and start crying, and I say..."I hope it comes out".

  Augie Steenbeck : And I say: "All my pictures come out".

• Augie Steenbeck : Time heals all wounds. No. Maybe it can be a Band-Aid.

• Augie Steenbeck : I need some fresh air.

  Schubert Green : You won't find any.

• Augie Steenbeck : Ah, it's you, the Wife who played my Actress.

• Augie Steenbeck : Stop helping us. We're in Grief.

• [after man has its first encounter with an alien lifeform] 

  Augie Steenbeck : The, uh, alien stole the asteroid.

• Stanley Zak : I didn't love you.

  Augie Steenbeck : You didn't think I was worthy.

  Stanley Zak : We're saying the same thing.

• Midge Campbell : Are you married?

  Augie Steenbeck : I'm a widower, but don't tell my kids.

• Midge Campbell : I wish I felt guilty at least, but I don't experience that emotion, if I understand it correctly. I've played it, of course.

  Augie Steenbeck : So you're saying you never feel guilty in real life?

  Midge Campbell : Not to my knowledge.

• Augie Steenbeck : The Meaning of Life!

  Schubert Green : Maybe there is one!

• Augie Steenbeck : 5 Flapjacks and a Black Coffee.

• Augie Steenbeck : Mind if I crack open a window?

  Conrad Earp : Uh, not at all. It's sweltering, isn't it? Even the daisies and buttercups are drooping...

  [Augie tries to open the window] 

  Conrad Earp : That window sticks a bit. That window sticks a bit! You broke my window.

• Augie Steenbeck : Is she a Ghost?

  Midge Campbell : It's not Clear.

• Augie Steenbeck : What a sickening waste.

• Augie Steenbeck : Okay?

  Conrad Earp : Okay.

• Woodrow : You took its picture, Dad!

  Augie Steenbeck : I'm a Photographer.

• Augie Steenbeck : Did you speak to the Alien?

  Actress : Not yet.

• Augie Steenbeck : The things you could have seen!

  Midge Campbell : I've seen it.

• Augie Steenbeck : That's none of your business.