'YOU SHOULDN'T BE UPSET THAT I **** HER!!! YOU SHOULD BE UPSET THAT I HAD A LAUGH WITH HER!!!!'
Charlie Barber
Adam Driver · 11 quotes
Nicole Barber
Scarlett Johansson · 6 quotes
Bert Spitz
Alan Alda · 5 quotes
Nora Fanshaw
Laura Dern · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Nicole Barber & Charlie Barber (4), Charlie Barber & Bert Spitz (2)
Marriage Story quotes
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Frank Charlie, what you're going through now is going to be horrible, but it will be over. **** as many people as you can right now. Women, men. Take what I said seriously.
Sandra Even though I am 64 and have a dead gay husband, I manage to get up every day, live my life, and feel pretty good about myself.
Ted Criminal lawyers see bad people at their best, divorce lawyers see good people at their worst.
You know what this is like? This is like that joke about the woman at the hairdresser, she's going to Rome. You know this?
I don't.
This woman is at her hairdresser, and she says, "I'm going to Rome on Holiday." And he says, "Oh, really? What airline are you taking?" She says, "Alitalia." He says, "Alitalia? Are you crazy? That's the worst – that's terrible. Don't take that. Where you gonna stay?" She says, "I'm gonna stay at the Hassler." "The Hassler? What, are you kidding? They're renovating the Hassler. You'll hear hammering all night long. You won't sleep. What are you gonna see?" She says, "I think I'm gonna try to go the Vatican." "The Vatican? You'll be standing in line all day long. You'll never get to see anything."
We didn't have a deal; it was something we discussed.
So it's a deal when it's something you want. And a discussion when Nicole wants it?
Will we go to court?
No. No, we don't want to go to court. Courts in California are a disaster, and that's just how we have to think about it. I'm not sure these are my glasses. Where are you living while you're out here?
I'm in a hotel right now.
A hotel doesn't look good.
To who?
The court.
[explaining it better]
No, of course. Of course. We have to prepare to go to court hoping we don't go to court.
Henry Barber
[not noticing the blood]
Dad, are you OK?
Henry Barber
Dad, did she like us?
[getting smart with him]
I didn't compare you to him. I said you were acting like him.
You're exactly like your mother. Everything you were complaining about her, you're doing. You're suffocating Henry.
I'm just repeating what you told me.
Secondly, how dare you compare my mothering to my mother! I may be like my father, but I am not like my mother!
[trying to get it through her head]
YOU ARE!!! And you're like my father! You're also like my mother! YOU'RE ALL THE BAD THINGS ABOUT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE!!! But mostly your mother. When we would lie in bed together, sometimes I would look at you and see her, and just feel so gross!
[annoyed while going through the pantrys]
You're a slob. I made all the beds, closed all the cabinets, picked up after you like an infant!
The thought of having sex with you makes me wanna peel my skin off.
You’ll never be happy. In LA or anywhere! You’ll think you found some better, opposite guy than me, a-and in a few years, you’ll rebel against him because you need to have your voice, but you don’t want a voice! You just want to **** complain about not having a voice!
I think of being married to you and that woman is a stranger to me! I mean, we had a.... child’s.... marriage....
You’ve regressed. You’ve gone back to your life before you met me. It’s pathetic.
People used to tell me that you were too selfish to be a great artist. I used to defend you. They were absolutely right.
All your best acting is behind you. You’re back to being a HACK!!
Oh, you wanna present yourself as a victim because it’s a good legal strategy?! FINE, [Nicole shakes her head in shame] BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW YOU CHOSE THIS LIFE!!! You wanted it until you didn’t! You used me so you could get out of LA.
[holding back laughter]
You did, and then you blamed me for it! You always made me aware of what I was doing wrong, [voice trembles] how I was falling short! 'LIFE WITH YOU WAS JOYLESS!!!'
[tired of being reminded of his adultery]
YOU SHOULDN'T BE UPSET THAT I **** HER, YOU SHOULD BE UPSET THAT I HAD A LAUGH WITH HER!!!!
You hated me! You **** someone we worked with!
[not listening]
You stopped having sex with me in the last year! I never cheated on you!
That was cheating on me!
[still not listening]
But there’s so much I could've done! I was a director in my 20s who came from nothing and was suddenly on the cover of **** Time Out New York! I was hot shit, and I wanted to **** everybody and I didn’t! And I loved you and I didn’t wanna lose you! But I’m in my 20s and I didn’t wanna lose that too, and I kinda did! And you wanted so much so fast! I didn't even want to get married. And....'**** IT!!!!' There's so much I didn't do.
[hurt by his statement and jumping like a maniac]
I can't believe I have to know you FOREVER!!!!
[losing his patience with her]
You're **** insane! [punches the wall in a rage] AND YOU'RE **** WINNING!!!!
[absolutely appalled]
Are you kidding me?! I wanted to be married! I’d already lost! [sadly] You didn’t love me as much as I loved you!
[trying to calm down]
What does that have to do with LA? [Nicole stares at him, incredulous] What?!
[stunned by his attitude]
You're so merged with your own selfishness, you don't even identify it as selfishness anymore! YOU'RE SUCH A DICK!!!
[finally fed up; very harshly, still refusing to listen]
EVERY DAY, I WAKE UP AND I HOPE YOU'RE DEAD!!!!! [voice breaking] DEAD, LIKE, IF I COULD GUARANTEE HENRY WOULD BE OKAY, I'D HOPE YOU GET AN ILLNESS, AND THEN GET HIT BY A CAR AND DIE!!!!!
[He begins weeping, and then falls to his knees as Nicole hugs him] [through tears]
I'm sorry.
Anyway, shall we try this?
OK. [pause] I don't know how to start.
Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?
No.
Well, that's not-Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start...
I don't understand it.
You don't remember promising that we could do time out there?
We discussed things. We were married, we said things. We talked about moving to Europe, about getting a sideboard or what do you call it, a credenza, to fill that empty space behind the couch. We never did any of it.
You should've considered my happiness too.
Come on, you were happy. You've just decided that you weren't now.
You shouldn't have fired Bert!
Where do you want to live now, doll?
Well, I'm here now, obviously. I don't know if the show will get picked up. It feels like home. It is home. It's the only home I've ever known without Charlie.
You want to stay here?
Charlie's not going to want that. He hates LA.
We're interested in what you want to do. What you're doing is an act of hope. You understand that?
Yeah.
[Reading Nicole's letter to Henry]
I fell in love with him two seconds after I saw him. And I'll never stop loving him, even though it doesn't make sense anymore.
And keep in mind, you'll have to pay for her lawyer. [...] Well, at least part of her. It doesn't make sense, does it? I mean, you're doing this because you love your kid. And in doing so, you're draining money from your kid's education.