The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
Elizabeth Debicki: Berenice Hollis
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Quotes
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Berenice Hollis : It's not real, James. You're not real.
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Jerome Debney : If you are an egg, I hope you'll be careful.
Berenice Hollis : Trust me, I'm anything but an egg.
Jerome Debney : Do you know the saddest egg of all? The egg that believes it's a stone.
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Berenice Hollis : Lying's easy when you tell the truth.
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Berenice Hollis : When I got to Italy, I thought, "Why not? Play the whore for a little while. See how it feels."
Jerome Debney : And does it suit you? This new mask?
Berenice Hollis : Turns out, I'm all right at it.
Jerome Debney : You have to be careful, my dear. A mask can be a perilous thing. When I take mine off at night, another waits beneath.
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Berenice Hollis : Acting a little strange, boss.
James Figueras : How long have you known me?
Berenice Hollis : A few days.
James Figueras : So how can you possibly say what's strange and what's normal?
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Jerome Debney : When I'm truly finished, I scrawl the title, the date and my initials. For posterity's sake, you understand.
Berenice Hollis : [reading the back of a canvas] "The Burnt Orange Heresy."
Jerome Debney : A favorite.
Berenice Hollis : What does it mean?
Jerome Debney : It's a bone tossed to the critics, those ravenous dogs. They can wear themselves out chewing on it. Searching for meaning where there is none.
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Berenice Hollis : Hollis. Berenice Hollis.
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Berenice Hollis : Ever wonder when something is just starting, how it's gonna end?
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James Figueras : Are you interested in art, Ms. Hollis?
Berenice Hollis : I just came here for the potato chips.
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Berenice Hollis : That's what art's about, isn't it? The truth.
James Figueras : No. I mean, pumpkin, if it's just about telling the truth, anybody could do it.
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James Figueras : What are you doing this weekend?
[Berenice scoffs]
James Figueras : What?
Berenice Hollis : You're supposed to ask me out *before* you fuck me.
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Berenice Hollis : You treat serious things as if they were trivial and trivial things as if they were serious.
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James Figueras : Duluth, huh? Thought there was an accent.
Berenice Hollis : A Duluth accent?
James Figueras : Minnesota. Something weird with the vowels.
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Berenice Hollis : We gonna dance to this tune again?
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Berenice Hollis : Where are you taking me?
Jerome Debney : "Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild."
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Berenice Hollis : I should tell you the truth.
James Figueras : About what?
Berenice Hollis : Myself.
James Figueras : And what would that be?
Berenice Hollis : Small-town girl, made a mistake. In way over her head, paddling about with sharks like you.
James Figueras : Little Bo-Peep, huh?
Berenice Hollis : Pretty much.
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Berenice Hollis : This isn't who you are, Slick.
James Figueras : Pumpkin, you haven't the slightest idea who I am.