Joel Barish quotes from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Joel Barish

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

Joel Barish

She was nice. Nice is good.

Joel Barish

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

Joel Barish

I'm constitutionally incapable of making eye-contact with a woman I don't know.

Joel Barish

Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

Joel Barish

This beach is goddamn freezing.

Joel Barish

This is working like gangbusters!

Joel Barish

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Joel Barish

It's all being wiped away.

Joel Barish

I could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.

Joel Barish

I loved you on this day. I love this memory.

Joel Barish

I'm just a **** up man trying to find my own peace of mind, don't beside me yours.

Joel Barish

I ditched work today. Took a train out to Montauk. I don't know why, I'm not an impulsive person.

Clementine

Hi!

Joel

I'm sorry?

Clementine

Why?

Joel

Why what?

Clementine

Why are you sorry? I just said 'hi.'

Joel

No, I didn't know if you were talking to me, so...

Clementine

Really?

Joel

Well, I didn't want to assume.

Clementine

Aw, c'mon, live dangerously. Take the leap and assume someone is talking to you in an otherwise empty car.

Joel

Anyway. Sorry. Hi.

Clementine

You're not a stalker or anything, right?

Joel

I'm not a stalker. *You're* the one that talked to me, remember?

Clementine

That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.

Joel

Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.

Clementine

Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a **** up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

Joel

I remember that speech really well.

Clementine

I had you pegged, didn't I?

Joel

You had the whole human race pegged.

Clementine

Probably.

Joel

I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.

Clementine

I know.

Clementine

This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.

Joel

I know.

Clementine

What do we do?

Joel

Enjoy it.

Joel

Is this how it looks?

This- this is...yeah, this is about what it should look like.

Joel

I really should go! I've gotta catch my ride.

Clementine

So go.

Joel

I did. I thought maybe you were a nut... but you were exciting.

Clementine

I wish you had stayed.

Joel

I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

Clementine

Well I came back downstairs and you were gone!

Joel

I walked out, I walked out the door!

Clementine

Why?

Joel

I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid, I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.

Clementine

You were scared?

Joel

Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.

Clementine

Was it something I said?

Joel

Yeah, you said "so go." With such disdain, you know?

Clementine

Oh, I'm sorry.

Joel

It's okay.

Clementine

You know me, I'm impulsive.

Joel

That's what I love about you.

Clementine

Hi!

Joel

Excuse me?

Clementine

I just said hi.

Joel

Oh! Hi, hello.

Clementine

I'm Clementine … no jokes about my name.

Joel

I don't know any jokes about your name.

Clementine

Huckleberry Hound.

Joel

I don't know what that is.

Clementine

Huckleberry Hound! [singing] Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine.

Joel

I don't know what that means.

Clementine

Are you nuts?

Joel

It's been suggested.

Joel

I'm in my head already, aren't I?

I suppose so. This – this is about what it would look like.

Joel

I can't see anything I don't like about you.

Clementine

But you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.

Joel

Okay.