The Holiday 2006 quotes

Graham

And what did you say?

Iris

I asked her to hold. Can I call you back?

Graham

I can hold while you speak to her.

Iris

Really?

Graham

Find out how she is.

Iris

Okay. (switches call) My brother wants to know how you are.

Amanda

Can you tell him I'm good and that I'm just taking Charlie for a walk in the village. Um, what's he been up to? Did he say?

Iris

I'm not sure. Do you want me to ask him?

Amanda

Uh, sure.

Iris

Okay. Hold please. (switches back) I can't believe that you have had sex with the woman staying in my house!

Amanda

He told you that?!

Iris

Oh my God! I thought I was talking to Graham! Can you just hold, please? I'm terribly sorry. (switches again) I can't believe you had sex with Amanda! The one thing she asked me was, 'Are there any men in your town?', and I assured her that there were not. And then you meet her and immediately get into her knickers!

Amanda

Still me!

Iris

Bollocks! I must have lost him. Amanda, I am so sorry.

Graham

Bad?

Amanda

Weird. Kissing a total stranger.

Graham

Really? I do it all the time.

Miles

Two notes... and you've got a villain.

Amanda

And that is why they pay me the big bucks.

Arthur

I've lived here for 47 years. Back then, there were only six houses on this block. Every year, they tear another one down. Not that I blame them. They weren't that great to begin with. But that's how I got confused. I didn't recognize one house.

Iris

I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.

Miles

Iris, if you were a melody...I used only the good notes.

Iris

Because you're hoping you're wrong. And every time he does something that tells you he's no good, you ignore it. And every time he comes through and surprises you, he wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that he's not for you.

Iris

But I think what I've got is something slightly resembling, gumption.[Slams door shut in Jasper's face. Lifts hands up and screams with joy]

Iris

I could go with as like your date or something [to Arthur]

Graham

I have a cow and I sew. How's that for "hard to relate to'?"

Graham

I have another scenario for you – I'm in love with you. I apologize for the blunt delivery, but as problematic as this fact may be, I'm in love... with YOU. I'm not feeling this because you're leaving, and not because it feels good to feel this way... which, by the way, it does, or did before you went off like that. I can't figure out the mathematics of this, I just know I love you. I can't believe how many times I'm saying it! And I never thought I'd feel this way again, so that's pretty phenomenal. And I realize that I come as a package deal: three for the price of one. I know my package, perhaps in the light of day, isn't all that wonderful, but I finally know what I want and that, in itself, is a miracle. And what I want is YOU.

Graham

I have the classic male problem of no follow through. Absolutely never remember to call after a date—but as this wasn't a date, I guess I am off the hook.

Iris

I like corny. I'm looking for corny in my life.

Arthur

I like this Hugo Boss, he cuts a nice suit!