Paper Man (2009)

Emma Stone: Abby

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Quotes 

• Richard Dunn : I love you.

  Abby : What?

  Richard Dunn : Not in any way that's in... Uh, inappropriate or anything, nothing that's not... You know... Decent or... It's just if I examine my, if I look in my... heart, I find that, I think that it's... there's love there. For you. Yeah... I love you.

  Abby : It wasn't really a looney bin. And it was only for a few months. Just until I... My parents thought... I don't know... I never told them, I never told anyone. It was a pact. Amy and me were both supposed to go... in the water. She did it, but I swam back. I swam back... I couldn't... I don't know why we were so unhappy about. Eight... I guess you're too young to know you can get over anything.

• Abby : Remember the moment when you realized your soup didn't have to come out of a can? You konow, all manufactured? That your chicken noodle can kick Cambell's Chicken Noodle's ass any day?

  Richard Dunn : I think I'm having that moment right now.

• Richard Dunn : You made this?

  Abby : Yeah...

  Richard Dunn : How?

  Abby : I don't know... An onion, a couple of carrots... One of your beers, uh... Oh, hope that was okay, I just kind of helped myself.

• Richard Dunn : Does this couch make me look fat?

  Abby : Um... I wouldn't sit there...

• Abby : [receiving a gift from Richard and takes a wild guess]  Oh... It's a... Camel? Peacock?

  Richard Dunn : It's the swan. The beautiful, graceful swan.

  Abby : Sorry...

• Abby : I had this dream last night. You were in it.

  Richard Dunn : Oh. Was I interesting?

  Abby : You were you.

• [Richard follows Abby with his bike. Just when Abby turns around, he manages to hide every time. When he passes the corner, Abby is ready with a spray nozzle aimed at his face] 

  Richard Dunn : No, no, no! It's not like that!

  [They stare at each other] 

  Richard Dunn : WD-40?

  Abby : For your wheels. Driving me nuts.

  [She sprays] 

  Abby : Nice bike, though. I used to ride one of these when I was your age. My parents put it in a yard sale. So I had to kill them.

• Abby : Chickenshit.

• Christopher : Isn't this the guy that was following you? I mean, who does that?

  Abby : You do. It's just babysitting.

  Christopher : Then where's the kid?

  Abby : Well... He doesn't have a kid.

  Christopher : The guy's a perv, then. You gotta get outta here.

  Abby : He's a famous writer! Okay? Get a life.

  Christopher : You *are* my life.

• Richard Dunn : I have a problem with my hands.

  Abby : What do you mean?

  Richard Dunn : They won't do what l want them to do.

  Abby : What do you want them to do?

  Richard Dunn : Anything... l don't know, something useful... l want them to build something or make something.

  Abby : Like what?

  Richard Dunn : Even Jesus, l mean, he was a carpenter... You know, it wasn't enough for him to save mankind. He needed a trade... I'm a fIimsy man, an insubstantial.

  Abby : Well, compared to Jesus.

  Richard Dunn : l'm a paper man.

• Richard Dunn : You seem a lot more interesting than me.

  Abby : l'm not... It just seems that way because l have a dead sister.

• Abby : There's Chicken Little you know and, um and Little Red Hen.

  Richard Dunn : Henny Penny.

  Abby : Yeah, exactly! Exactly.

  [laughs] 

  Abby : Oh you know, there's a lot of books out there about um... poultry.

  [Richard chucles] 

• Richard Dunn : There is no baby... as such.

  Abby : There's-there's no kid?

  Richard Dunn : Nope.

  Abby : Well... shit, then this will be easy.

• Abby : I wish I had a really amazing fucked-up father like him.