A character in Gone Girl (2014)

Amy Dunne quotes from Gone Girl (2014)

Rosamund Pike

Most-quoted character in Gone Girl (2014): in 8 of its 19 quotes
Most scenes with: Nick Dunne (2)

A line from Amy Dunne

I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy lying shitting oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime.

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Amy Dunne

Amazing **** Amy is getting **** married!

Amy Dunne

When two people love each other and they can't make that work, that's the real tragedy.

Amy Dunne

Want to test your marriage for weak spots? Add one recession, subtract two jobs. It's surprisingly effective.

Amy Dunne

Then Nick will die too. Nick and Amy will be gone, but then we never really existed. Nick loved a girl I was pretending to be; Cool Girl. Men always use that, don't they, as their defining compliment. She's a Cool Girl. Cool Girl is hot. Cool Girl is game. Cool Girl is fun. Cool Girl never gets angry at her man. She only smiles, in a chagrined, loving manner, and then presents her mouth for ****. She likes what he likes. So evidently, he's a vinyl hipster who likes fetish manga. If he likes girls gone wild, she's a mall babe, who talks football and endures Buffalo Wings at Hooter's. When I met Nick Dunne, I knew he wanted Cool Girl, and for him, I'll admit, I was willing to try. I wax-stripped my pussy raw. I drank canned beer watching Adam Sandler movies. I ate cold pizza and remained a size 2. I blew him, semi-regularly. I lived in the moment. I was **** game. I can't say I didn't enjoy some of it. Nick teased out in me things I didn't know existed. A lightness. A humor. An ease. But I made him stronger, sharper. I inspired him to rise to my level. I forged the man of my dreams. We were happy pretending to be other people; we were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Nick got lazy. He became someone I did not agree to marry. He actually expected me to love him unconditionally, then he dragged me, penniless, to the navel of this great country, and found himself a newer, younger, bouncier Cool Girl. You think I'd let him destroy me and end up happier than ever? No **** way. He doesn't get to win.

Amy Dunne

My cute, charming, salt-of-the-earth Missouri guy. He needed to learn. Grown ups work for things. Grown ups pay. Grown ups suffer consequences.

Scenes with Amy Dunne

2 scenes

You **** ****!

Amy Dunne

I'm the **** you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this **** might like. I'm not a quitter, I'm that ****. I've killed for you; who else can say that? You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I'm it.

****. You're delusional. I mean, you're insane, why would you even want this? Yes, I loved you and then all we did was resent each other, and try to control each other, and cause each other pain.

Amy Dunne

That's marriage. Now, I'm getting ready.

[the couple emerges moments later from their bedroom, both dressed nicely; the viewing party guests glance up at them as they slowly descend the stairwell. Amy reaches for Nick's hand, and he takes it after briefly hesitating. The scene cuts to Nick and Margo in the latter's kitchen, as Margo is in tears]

I can't watch you play house with that thing for the next 18 years!

I can't just walk away.

You could get custody.

No, I won't, and you know it. It's gonna be my child, and I'm not gonna leave it.

You wanna stay.

I have a responsibility. It's not about what I want anymore.

You wanna stay with her. [she chokes up further] You're breaking my heart.

Go, you're my voice of reason. I need you with me on this.

[sniffling]

Of course I'm with you. I was with you before we were even born.

[the scene cuts back to Nick and Amy's home, where the interview with Ellen Abbott is being broadcast live in the living room]

...and, we've been through the darkness. We come out, united. Uh, we communicate. We're honest with each other. We're partners in crime.

Amy Dunne

And?

And... [with a forced smile] we're gonna be parents.

Ellen Abbott
[smiling widely]

Oh, my goodness! [She steps away from her chair and embraces Amy on the couch, as Nick looks away in displeasure] Oh, how exciting!

[the scene shifts to Nick narrating, while stroking Amy's hair]

What are you thinking? [Amy looks upwards] How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? [Amy leans into Nick] What will we do?

[after seeing positive pregnancy test]

I didn't touch you!

Amy Dunne

You didn't need to.

Bullshit! That notice of disposal, I have that. You threw it out.

Amy Dunne

The notice? Yes. [rubs stomach]

I want a blood test! I want a paternity test!

Amy Dunne

I love tests.

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