Angels in America (2003)

Patrick Wilson: Joe Pitt

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• Harper Pitt : I burned dinner.

  Joe Pitt : I'm sorry.

  Harper Pitt : Not my dinner, my dinner was fine. Your dinner. I put it back in the oven and turned everything up as high as it could go and I watched 'til it burned black. It's still hot, very hot, want it?

  Joe Pitt : You didn't have to do that.

  Harper Pitt : I know, it just seemed like the kinda thing a mentally-deranged sex-starved pill-popping housewife would do.

• Joe Pitt : I think we ought to pray. Ask God for help. Ask him together.

  Harper Pitt : God won't talk to me. I have to make up people to talk to me.

  Joe Pitt : You have to keep asking.

  Harper Pitt : I forgot the question?... Oh, yeah. God, is my husband a homo?

  Joe Pitt : Stop it! Stop it! I'm warning you! Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it? What do you want from me? What do you want from me Harper, more than that? For God's sake, there's nothing left. I'm a shell. There's nothing left to kill. As long as my behaviour is what I know it has to be, decent, correct that alone in the eyes of God.

  Harper Pitt : No, no, not that. That's Utah talk, Mormon talk. I hate it, Joe. Tell me, say it.

  Joe Pitt : All I will say is that I'm a very good man who has worked very hard to become good and you wanna destroy that. You wanna destroy me but I am not gonna let you do that.

  Harper Pitt : I'm gonna have a baby.

  Joe Pitt : Liar!

  Harper Pitt : You liar!... A baby born addicted to pills. A baby who does not dream but who hallucinates, who stares up at us with big mirror eyes and who does not know who we are.

  Joe Pitt : Are you really?

  Harper Pitt : No... Yes... No... Yes... Get away from me. Now we both have a secret.

• Harper Pitt : There's something creepy about this place. Remember Rosemary's Baby?

  Joe Pitt : Rosemary's Baby?

  Harper Pitt : Our apartment looks like that one. Wasn't that apartment in Brooklyn?

  Joe Pitt : No.

  Harper Pitt : Well, it looked like this. It did!

  Joe Pitt : Then let's move.

  Harper Pitt : Georgetown's worse. The Exorcist was in Georgetown.

• Harper Pitt : I'm gonna have a baby.

  Joe Pitt : Liar.

  Harper Pitt : You liar. A baby born addicted to pills. A baby who does not dream, but who hallucinates. Who stares up at us with big mirror eyes and who does not know who we are.

  Joe Pitt : Are you really?

  Harper Pitt : No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes. Get away from me. Now we both have a secret.

• Louis Ironson : Well, oh boy. A gay Republican.

  Joe Pitt : Excuse me?

  Louis Ironson : Nothing.

  Joe Pitt : Oh, I'm not... no, forget it.

  Louis Ironson : Not... Republican? Not Republican?

  Joe Pitt : What?

  Louis Ironson : What.

  Joe Pitt : Not gay. I'm not gay.

  Louis Ironson : Oh. Sorry. It's just that sometimes you can tell by the way a person sounds. I mean, you sound...

  Joe Pitt : No, I don't. Like what?

  Louis Ironson : Like a Republican.

  Joe Pitt : Do I sound like a...?

  Louis Ironson : What? Like a Republican? Or do I?

  Joe Pitt : Do you what?

  Louis Ironson : Sound like a...

  Joe Pitt : Yeah. Like a... I'm confused.

  Louis Ironson : Yes. My name is Louis but all my friends call me Louise. I work in word processing. Thanks for the toilet paper.

  [Joe goes to speak, but Louis quickly plants a kiss on his cheek before exiting, leaving Joe slightly shocked] 

• Joe Pitt : I think we ought to pray. Ask God for help. Ask Him together.

  Harper Pitt : God won't talk to me, I have to make up people to talk to me.

  Joe Pitt : You have to keep asking.

  Harper Pitt : I forgot the question. Oh yeah... God, is my husband a homo?

• Joe Pitt : You said something about my friend. Is this about Louis? Is he...?

  Prior Walter : [shouting]  Is he what? Sad, hot, happy? Talk to him yourself, Bullwinkle! What do I look like, a marriage counselor?

• Prior Walter : I'm a prophet.

  Joe Pitt : What?

  Prior Walter : Prophet! Prophet! I prophecy, I have sight, I see! What do you do?

  Joe Pitt : I'm a clerk.

  Prior Walter : Oh, big deal, a clerk? You, what, you file things? You better be keeping a file on the hearts you break. That's all that counts in the end. You'll be having bills to pay in the world to come. You and your friend, the Whore of Babylon. Sorry, wrong room.

• Joe Pitt : I want to... I don't know anymore what I want.

  Hannah Pitt : What you want, what you want. Well, that shifts with the breeze. How can you steer your life by what you want? Hold to what you believe!

  Joe Pitt : You and me, it's like we're in Salt Lake again. You sort of bring the desert with you.

  [Noticing Hannah becoming upset] 

  Joe Pitt : Are you...? Don't cry.

  Hannah Pitt : Oh, if I ever do, I promise you, you'll not be privileged to witness it.

• Joe Pitt : If you have something you want to ask me ask me! Ask me, go!

  Harper Pitt : I can't, I'm scared of you.

• Harper Pitt : I got this tree from the great Antarctic pine forest, right over the hill.

  Mr. Lies : There are no pine forests in Antarctica.

  Harper Pitt : This one's a blue spruce.

  Mr. Lies : There are no blue spruce in...

  Harper Pitt : I chewed this pine tree down with my teeth. Like a beaver. I'm hungry, I haven't eaten in three days. I'm gonna use it to build something. Maybe a fire. Lucky I brought these.

  Mr. Lies : Snow'll melt

  Harper Pitt : Let it. I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you. There's your breasts and your genitals... They're amazingly stupid, like babies or faithful dogs. They don't get it, they just want him. Want him.

  Mr. Lies : Eskimo's back.

  Harper Pitt : I know. I wanted a real Eskimo, someone chilly and reliable. An Eskimo dressed in seal pelts. Not this. This is just some lawyer, just...

  Joe Pitt : Hey, buddy.

  Harper Pitt : Hey.

  Joe Pitt : I looked for you. I've been everywhere.

  Harper Pitt : Well, you found me.

  Joe Pitt : No, I'm not looking now. I guess I'm having an adventure.

  Harper Pitt : Who with?

  Joe Pitt : No one you know. No one I know, either.

  Harper Pitt : ls it fun?

  Joe Pitt : Scary fun.

  Harper Pitt : Can I come with you? This isn't working anymore, I'm cold.

  Joe Pitt : I wouldn't want you to see.

  Harper Pitt : You think it's worse than what I imagine? It's not.

  Joe Pitt : I should go.

  Harper Pitt : Bastard! You fell out of love with me.

  Joe Pitt : That isn't true, Harper.

  Harper Pitt : Then come back!

• Joe Pitt : My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life. I think I believed that when I met you, I could save you. You, at least, if not myself.