Cousins (1989)

Isabella Rossellini: Maria

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• Maria : How many jobs did you have?

  Larry : I don't know. A lot. I change every two or three years. If it looks like I might be successful. I move on.

  Maria : You don't want to be successful?

  Larry : I want to be happy.

• Tom : Look, I've kept my part of the bargain for Chloe's sake.

  Maria : Well, maybe Chloe deserves more than a bargain, Tom...

  [strokes his cheek, then turns to Larry] 

  Maria : Larry Kozinski, I would love to dance with you.

• Larry : So, what do you want to do? Do you want to confront them? They'll just deny it.

  Maria : We could shave their heads.

• Maria : I seem to have lost my mate.

  Larry : Me too. I'm sure I came in with one.

• Tom : As soon as she said they were thinking about buying a car, I knew, if I could get her behind the wheel - bingo. Sale, commission, full sticker price. Then the car breaks down. See, that's the thing in sales, you have to concentrate on the woman.

  Maria : Women always like you, Tom.

  Tom : You believe me, don't you?

  Maria : Why shouldn't I? You're my husband.

• Larry : You're learning all my secrets and I don't know the first thing about you.

  Maria : I'm not an interesting person.

• Maria : They have fried octopus?

  Larry : No, I had that for breakfast.

• Maria : You have a rich fantasy life, don't you?

  Larry : Uh-huh. Don't you? Don't you have fantasies?

  Maria : I do!

• Larry : That one would look great on you.

  Maria : But, Tom hates me in hats.

  Larry : Then I'll buy it for you.

• Larry : All those years, I'll be dreaming of kissing you.

  Maria : With tongue or without?

• Maria : So what will happen to us?

  Larry : Well, we could be lovers or we could be friends.

  Maria : We are friends. If we're lovers, we have to lie. I don't think I can do that.

  Larry : Yea, me either.

  Maria : If we make love once and then never see each other again.

  Larry : Friends then. Very special friends.

• Maria : What does your wife hate you to wear?

  Larry : Boxer shorts. She doesn't think they're sexy.

  Maria : Oh, I think they're very sexy.

  Larry : We're gonna be bad. We're gonna be so bad.

• Mrs. Dionne : He's sick! He's a beast. How am I supposed to go in there lookin' like this?

  Maria : No. I mean, sometimes bald is considered attractive.

• Maria : Why do always my problems have to be solved with proverbs?

• Maria : He make me feel good. We talk. We walk. We have fun. What's so wrong?

  Edie : This walk you are taking is right into quicksand.

  Maria : I haven't been happy with Tom in a long time.

  Edie : Who says you are supposed to be happy?

  Maria : Oh, excuse me, I *dare* to want to be happy.

• Maria : I'm not sleeping with Larry.

  Edie : But, you are thinking about it.

• Tom : Maybe - we can make love latter.

  Maria : Good.

• Tom : Are you in love with him?

  Maria : If I am, I'll get over it.

  Tom : Yeah. We were in love once upon a time. We got over it.