Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Ana Pascal

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Quotes 

• Harold Crick : Big flag-burning to get to?

  Ana Pascal : Actually, it's my weekly evil-conspiracy and needlepoint group. You wanna come?

  Harold Crick : I left my thimbles and socialist reading material at home.

  [Ana laughs] 

• Harold Crick : How are you?

  Ana Pascal : I'm lousy. I'm being audited.

  Harold Crick : Of course.

  Ana Pascal : By a real creep too.

  Harold Crick : I think I owe you an apology.

  Ana Pascal : Really?

  Harold Crick : IRS agents, we're given rigorous aptitude tests before we can work. Unfortunately for you, we aren't tested on tact or good manners, so I apologize.

  [stammers] 

  Harold Crick : I ogled you. Sorry.

  Ana Pascal : Okay, apology accepted. But only because you stammered.

• Ana Pascal : I won't be paying, Mr. Crick. No matter how big the percent.

  Harold Crick : No, I know. But the percent determines how big your cell is.

• Harold Crick : You keep your files like this?

  Ana Pascal : No, actually I'm quite fastidious. I put them in this box just to screw with you.

• Ana Pascal : Mr. Crick, it was a really awful day. I know, I made sure of it. So pick up the cookie, dip it in the milk, and eat it.

• [to Harold during their first meeting] 

  Ana Pascal : Get bent, Tax Man!

  [gets everyone else in the bakery to boo Harold] 

• Ana Pascal : I'm a big supporter of fixing potholes and erecting swing sets and building shelters. I am more than happy to pay those taxes. I'm just not such a big fan of the percentage that the government uses for national defense, corporate bailouts, and campaign discretionary funds. So, I didn't pay those taxes. I think that I sent a letter to that effect with my return.

  Harold Crick : Would that be the letter that begins, Dear Imperialist Swine?

  Ana Pascal : Yes.

  Harold Crick : Miss Pascal, what you're describing is anarchy. Are you an anarchist?

  Ana Pascal : You mean, am I a member...?

  Harold Crick : Of an anarchist group, yes.

  Ana Pascal : Anarchists have a group?

  Harold Crick : I believe so, sure.

  Ana Pascal : They assemble?

  Harold Crick : I, I don't know.

  Ana Pascal : Wouldn't that completely defeat the purpose?

• Ana Pascal : Mr. Crick. Mr. Crick!

  Harold Crick : Yes, what is it?

  Ana Pascal : You're staring at my tits.

  Harold Crick : I wa... I don't think I was. I don't think I would do that. If I was, I can assure you it was only as a representative of the United States government.

• Ana Pascal : You don't like cookies?