Secretary (2002)

Jeremy Davies: Peter

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• [Lee refuses to remove her hands from the desk as Mr. Grey instructed her to] 

  Peter : Are you doing something sexual right now?

  Lee : [Lee looks at Peter seriously]  Does this look sexual to you?

  Peter : [Peter yells out in confusion]  I don't know, Lee! Why don't you move your hands?

  Lee : [Lee looks away and responds with]  Because I don't want to.

• [Peter finds Lee at Mr. Grey's office with her hands to the desk] 

  Peter : What are you... what are you doing? Lee, I don't... I don't know what the deal is with...

  Lee : I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

  Peter : I'm your fiancé, Lee!

  Lee : You are trespassing. You are making an unwarranted incursion, a gradual or stealthy entrance into the square of another.

• [Peter talks to Lee while eating at the Laundromat] 

  Peter : Some people, right, have to wash something as soon as they've worn it. You know, for, like, half a day.

  Lee : Yes.

  Peter : And then you got your more laid-back folk who just, you know, maybe they'll wash their stuff when it's dirty.

  Lee : Which kind are you?

  Peter : I'm the type of guy who wants to get married and have a kid.

  Lee : I wash my clothes just when they're dirty.

• [Peter welcomes Lee back home from the institution] 

  Peter : Are you happy to be home? I mean, are you 'happy' to be home?

  Lee : I don't know.

  Peter : I know what you mean.

• [Lee tells Peter that he's different than when they first knew each other] 

  Lee : You're different than you were in high school, Peter.

  Peter : I... I changed.

  Lee : What happened?

  Peter : I had a nervous breakdown.

  Lee : [Lee smiles]  Me, too. Sort of.

• [Lee talks to Peter about his underwear while washing clothes at the Laundromat] 

  Lee : I've read that if you wear that kind of underwear, that it squeezes... um, your things.

  Peter : Balls.

  Lee : Yes.

  Peter : Balls? My grapes.

  Lee : [Lee chuckles]  Your grapes?

  Peter : My...

  Lee : Your testicles! Your sperm gets squozen, and then you can't have babies, and I thought that you said you wanted to have babies. There you go, I said it.

  Peter : [Peter stretches on his tighty whities, before he starts to throw them into the trash]  To babies! To diapers. To diaper rash.

  Peter : [Lee joins Peter as they both begin to throw his underwear in the trash]  To breast-feeding. And to crying!