Sam Monroe I think there has to be a door between where you eat and where you crap.
2nd most-quoted character in Life as a House (2001): in 8 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: George Monroe (6)
Thank you for talking about me behind my back - that'll be useful in court.
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6 scenes Sam I'll hate you for the rest of my life.
You can't begin to imagine how much I hated my father. Think of it as a family tradition.
I have hated this house, from the moment my father put it in my name. Twenty-five years of hating what you live in, of hating what you are! This is the end of it Sam. I can finally build something of my own, something I can be proud to give you.
Sam Don't, I don't want it.
Fine, you can do whatever you want with it. All I want is for you to remember that we built a house together.
Sam We haven't built shit. You're just tearing your father down.
Try it, feels good.
Take that thumbtack out of your chin.
Sam Why?
It bugs me!
Sam You snore at night. That really bugs me. Can I take you out?
Sam What's wrong with your back? Do you have to have surgery on it or what? Because those pills you are taking are for a lot of pain. And you seem to be going though them pretty quick, that's all.
You're not still taking any, are you?
Sam No. But I count them. In a sock isn't exactly new, you know.
I'm having a problem with cancer.
Sam I don't know what that means. What kind of problem?
The kind where there isn't any answer.
Sam I still don't know what it means.
Sam I wanted us to... You know, spend a few months together. Here. Sometimes things happen for a reason. Something bad to force something good.
Sam So you're dying. And you told mom today. **** you, ok **** you. You knew you were dying from the start?
We're all dying from the start. I just got pushed to the head of the line.
Sam But you lied to me.
I would've lied to myself if I thought I'd believe it.
Sam So this whole thing... this whole summer, having me here, was for your sake. You selfish ****. Having me here trying to get me to like you.
No, Sam I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me.
Sam Well, congratulations... Because you **** pulled it off.
Sam I've been using since I was 12! You're also unbelievably stupid, you know that? You didn't give a shit about anything I did up until now!
Well, I'll apologize for everything but today! Today I give a shit!
Sam I took some of your Vicatin.
I know. Why?
Sam I like how it feels to not feel.
I know the feeling.
Sam How do you become something that you're not?
What would you like to be?
Sam What I'm not.
What are you now?
Sam I'm nothing.
That's not true.
Sam You see, that's the thing though is that I am what I say I am.
I gave up on you.
Sam No, no if you'd given up on me I'd be in Tahoe right now.
And what would you be doing there right now?
Sam Getting high, I guess.
If I asked you to stop, would you?
Sam I haven't used anything in two days. I'm trying.
I'm proud of you.
Sam Yeah, well don't be. And hide that new Daily...whatever that new drug is you have. I like it.
I held I gun up to my father’s head once. You ever think like that? He had just been yelling at my mom over, nothing, undercooked meat. I went to my room, I held the barrel right up to his ear, and then I chickened out again. Of course it was a bb gun but it still would’ve hurt like hell.
Sam (takes of headphones)
Are you talking?
I was just thinking about my mom. She wouldn't leave my dad. I remember one time she made dinner for us wearing sunglasses. Remind you it was dark outside, and in. And nobody said a thing about it.
Sam Why wouldn't she just leave?
I think she was terrified to live with him but maybe even more terrified of life without him.
Sam I would've killed him.
It would have been so much better if you had. Maybe then he wouldn’t have driven drunk, killed my mom in a car crash, other women in the car. Hurt a little girl in the back seat too. You would’ve liked your grandma, she was pretty cool. I still think about that little girl, they couldn’t find her father and her mother was dead.
Sam Do you ever wish you'd have done it?
What, killed my dad?
Sam (Nods)
I loved him too much.
Sam That's weird.
Yeah, I guess it is.
Robin You sure this is what you wanna do?
Sam Yes. This is what he wanted.
Robin I read the letter, you read the will. He wanted you to keep it and live in it someday.
Sam Alright, maybe it's not what he wanted but it's what he was hoping for. Maybe it's what I want.
