Tied for most-quoted character in Breaking Up (1997): in 10 of its 12 quotes
Most scenes with: Steve (8)
There used to be reasons for people to be together, like stability, security and maybe even a kid. But you see, I don't need you for the those reasons nowadays. I mean, I can get them on my own now if I wanted to. So ... if there are no real reasons for two people to be together, then you are into unreal reasons, fantastic reasons, like happiness, good company and comfort and understanding and emotional support ... God, you wouldn't ask that much from a saint. So you look at this person and you say ... what the good is this person for anyway?
Monica Something happened to the world and nobody understood it. It was confusing and people started jumping to conclusions. There are no more absolutes. Time, space, good, evil - the things we know the things we believe in the things we see we thought we understood these things. But maybe we don't, maybe they're all relative.
Monica We are supposed to be talking!
Monica No, we are not talking.
Ok, we'll talk, talk! ... talk! talk!
Monica Aaaah!
Monica You really make me sick.
Oh, thank you very much!
Monica If I eat, I wanna throw up. If I don't, I get a headache. If I sleep, I have nightmares. If I don't sleep, I get depressed. I can't move. I am stuck on a chair, just going over every word, and it just makes me even sicker.
Monica This is your idea of a conversation?
I'm going crazy...
Monica See, that's different! I thought it was your everyday garden-variety existential crisis. But crazy is different.
I used to wake up ... I'd fall asleep and then I'd be wide awake and I just had to get out of here.
Monica Why?
Not coz it was bad, ok? Coz being here with you, everything else was far away, just gone ... me and my life and everything I do and what I am. I was losing that here. I'd wake up and think "it's gone, I'm gone." I got to get back and see if it's still there. Coz here ... I don't know who I am here.
... It changes everything.
Monica It's supposed to change everything, Steve.
Love, right? ... But suppose it doesn't last? I got to hang on to what I have besides this ...
Monica You think you have free will. You make decisions, you make things happen. According to Marx, this is just behavior, superficial behavior. Underneath this behavior, there are patterns determining our destiny. And, here's the killer ... we have no control over them. No matter what we do, it makes no difference to the path of history.
Want to try and take a house in the beach this summer?
Monica Can we afford it?
Monica 20th century man, doubt.
What are you talking about now?
Monica You me, everybody ... this is why we aren't sure of anything. this is why we feel cut off, drifting. this is why we can't make a commitment .... nothing means anything to us. You see what I mean?
You are saying you don't want to get married?
Monica No, I am saying what I am saying.
Monica I used to do that all the time, you know? I used to ask people stuff like if they were happy or stuff like that. I don't do it any more because it's stupid and none of my business.
Monica Are you happy?
