Before Midnight (2013)

Julie Delpy: Celine

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• Jesse : I am giving you my whole life ok? I got nothing larger to give, I'm not giving it to anybody else. If you're looking for permission to disqualify me, I'm not gonna give it to you. Ok? I love you. And I'm not in conflict about it. Okay? But if what you want is like a laundry list of all the things that piss me off, I can give it to you.

  Celine : Yeah, I want to hear.

  Jesse : Okay well, number 1, you're fucking nuts! You are. Good luck! Find somebody else to put up with your shit for more than like 6 months okay? But I, accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant. I know you're not gonna change and I don't want you to. It's called accepting you for being you.

• [last lines] 

  Celine : Well, it must have been one hell of a night we're about to have.

• Jesse : You're just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I'm just trying to make things better. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you're beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you're 80. I try to make you laugh.

  Celine : Ok.

  Jesse : All right, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I'm just some dog who's gonna keep coming back, then you're wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect, but it's real. And if you can't see it, then you're blind, all right, and I give up.

• Celine : You like to have sex, the exact same way, evvvvvvery time.

  Jesse : When you got it, you got it.

  Celine : Kissy kissy, titty titty, pussy

  [snore] 

  Jesse : I'm a man of simple pleasures.

• Celine : I feel close to you.

  Jesse : Yeah?

  Celine : But sometimes, I don't know? I feel like you're breathing helium and I'm breathing oxygen.

  Jesse : [high pitched voice]  What makes you say that?

• Celine : You know what? The only time I get to think now is when I take a shit at the office. I'm starting to associate thoughts with the smell of shit.

  Jesse : Ha ha. That is a good line. I gonna use that in a book some day.

  Celine : I'm sure you will. And that'll be the best line in the book.

• Celine : One of the perks of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.

• Celine : Still there. Still there. Still there. Gone.

• Celine : ...we don't have to spend our lives comparing ourselves to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Tolstoy...

  Jesse : What about Joan of Arc, right, she was a teenager and she saved France, so...

  Celine : Who wants to be Joan of Arc? Forget France, she was burnt at the stake and a virgin, okay. Nothing I aspired to. What a great achievement.

• Celine : Now I know why Sylvia Plath put her head in a toaster!

  Jesse : It was an oven.

• Celine : If I'm not around you'll find it easier to fuck your cousins, that's what you do in your Country, right?

• Celine : So tell me about this Time Machine. How does it work?

• Celine : Okay, Jesse, can you stop this stupid game? We're not in one of your stories. Okay? Did you hear what I said to you back in the room? Did you hear me?

  Jesse : Yes, I heard you - that you don't love me anymore. I figured you didn't mean it but if you did, then fuck it. You know something? You're just like the little girls and everybody else - you want to live in some fairy tale. I'm just trying to make things better here. I tell you I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you're beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you're 80. I'm trying to make you laugh. I put up with plenty of your shit, and if you think I'm just some dog who's gonna keep coming back then, you're wrong. But if you want true love - this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect, but it's real. And if you can't see it, then you're blind, alright? I give up.

• Celine : It's true, I read it.

• Celine : [Dreaming]  And then I have an Orgasm and wake up.