Playing by Heart (1998)

Gillian Anderson: Meredith

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• Trent : You know I'm not just asking you to dinner as a pre-emptive strike against litigation. I'm asking because...

  Meredith : I'll have dinner with you.

  Trent : What changed your mind?

  Meredith : Anyone who can say 'preemptive strike against litigation' with a straight face deserves a dinner companion.

• Meredith : Wow.

  Trent : Yeah I know, the flowers are a little much, but I'm late. But only because I had second thoughts about the flowers and threw them away halfway down the block. Then had third thoughts and went back and got them.

• Meredith : I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want all this calculated artificiality. This dress, these stupid little bows in my hair, they aren't me. I mean, look at you. You - you don't sit around your house in an Armani suit, do you?

  Trent : No. My house is black-tie.

• Meredith : I have a hard time trusting men.

  Trent : I'm not men. I'm not a group. I'm just me.

• Meredith : [on the phone after Mark's funeral]  Trent, is it too late to say "I love you"?

  Trent : It's early.

• Meredith : Look, Trent, you're a nice guy, I don't...

  Trent : [groaning]  Oh, oh, that's - you know...

  [heading for the railing] 

  Trent : I'm swimming to shore, you can call the Coast Guard.

  Meredith : Oh, come on!

  Trent : Nice guy? That's - I haven't been dismissed with that since high school!

  [pause] 

  Trent : Does that mean no second date?

• Meredith : I don't deal with passion well.

  Trent : Maybe you don't like that loss of control. You prefer to be the director, telling everyone what to do.

  Meredith : It's pretty painfully obvious, isn't it.

  Trent : Somewhat painful, yes... You know there's something to find out about me.

  Meredith : What's that?

  Trent : That I take direction pretty well.

• [Fumbling on a date] 

  Meredith : As you can see I'm not very good at this.

  Trent : You're charming.

• Meredith : Well, That doesn't take long does it?

  Trent : What doesn't?

  Meredith : I mean, you turn a guy down a-and WHAM. he just metamophoses into an anger ball.

  Trent : An 'Anger ball'?

  Meredith : See.