Margot Tenenbaum I think we're just going to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie.
4th most-quoted character in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001): in 21 of its 107 quotes
Most scenes with: Richie Tenenbaum (6), Royal Tenenbaum (5), Eli Cash (5)
I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question.
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2 quotes Margot Tenenbaum Margot Tenenbaum I'm adopted, did you know that? I ran away to find my real family when I was fourteen. They live in Indiana.
Scenes with Margot Tenenbaum
18 scenes
You have a visitor, my darling.
Margot Margot answers without opening the door: Who is it?.
It's me sweetie.
[Silence. A key slides from under the door to Etheline's feet. Etheline looks to Raleigh. Raleigh looks embarrassed.
INT. BATHROOM. DAY.
Margot is in the bathtub watching Planet of the Apes on her little black-and-white television set. Etheline sits on the edge of the tub with her coat in her lap.]
Raleigh says you've been spending six hours a day locked up in here watching television and soaking in the tub.
Margot (pause)
I doubt that.
Well, I don't think that's very healthy, do you? Nor do I think it's very intelligent to keep an electric gadget on the edge of the bathtub.
Margot I tied it to the radiator.
[Etheline examines the television set. There is a length of red twine wrapped around it and knotted to a pipe.]
Well, it can't be very good for your eyes.
[Margot turns off the television set with her foot. She looks to Etheline. Etheline smooths back Margot's wet hair.]
Chas came home.
Margot (pause)
What do you mean?
He and Ari and Uzi are gonna stay with me for a little while.
Margot (frowns)
Why are they allowed to do that?
Margot (urgently)
So am I.
I have to tell you something.
Margot What's that?
I love you.
Margot I love you, too.
I can't stop thinking about you. I went away for a year and it only got worse and I don't know what to do.
Margot Why'd you do it? Because of me?
Yeah. But it's not your fault.
You made a cuckold of me.
Margot I know.
Many times over.
Margot I'm sorry.
You don't love me anymore, do you?
Margot Tenenbaum I do, kind of. I can't explain it right now.
Are you ever coming home?
Margot Maybe not.
Well, I wanna die.
You dropped some cigarettes.
Margot Tenenbaum Those aren't mine.
They just fell out of your pocket.
I'm not in love with you any more.
Margot I didn't ever know that you were.
Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is.
How's Richie?
Margot I don't know. I can't tell.
Yeah, me neither. He wrote me a letter. He says he's in love with you.
Margot What are you talking about?
That's what he said. I don't know how we're supposed to take it.
I'm very sorry, Margot.
Margot It's okay. We're not actually related anyway.
True.
You never even gave me the time of day till I started getting good reviews.
Margot Your reviews weren't that good.
But the sales are.
Didn't seem believable to me.
He has permission to sleep over.
Well, did you at least think the characters were well developed?
What characters? It's just a bunch of little kids dressed up in animal costumes.
Young Margot Tenenbaum Good night, everyone.
Well, sweetie, don't get mad at me. That's just one man's opinion.
Please! Mr. Sherman, this is a family matter.
Margot Don't talk to him like that.
Call me Henry.
I prefer Mr. Sherman.
Call him Henry.
Why? I don't know him that well.
You've known him for ten years.
Yes, as your accountant, Mr. Sherman.
Can we get somebody over here to kill these mice for us?
Margot No. They belong to Chas. Or anyway he invented them.
Get him to stick them in a **** cage or something.
I thought I'd start by taking you out to visit your grandmother.
God, I haven't been out there in years.
Margot I've never been at all. I was never invited.
Well she wasn't your real grandmother, and I didn't know how much interest you had. But you're invited now!
You never gave me the time of day until I started getting good reviews.
Margot Tenenbaum Your reviews aren't that good.
How long have you been a smoker?
Margot Tenenbaum Twenty-two years.
Well, I think you should quit.
Margot Tenenbaum You probably don't even know my middle name.
That's a trick question. You don't have one.
Margot Tenenbaum Helen.
That was my mother's name.
Margot Tenenbaum I know it was.
Richie, this illness, this closeness to death... it's had a profound affect on me. I feel like a different person, I really do.
Dad, you were never dying.
...but I'm gonna live.
Margot Neither are you.
