David Aames quotes from Vanilla Sky (2001)

David Aames

Isn’t that what being young is about, believing secretly that you would be the one person in the history of man that would live forever?

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My dreams are a cruel joke. They taunt me. Even in my dreams, I'm an idiot who knows he's about to wake up to reality. If I could only avoid sleep. But I can't. I try to tell myself what to dream. I try to dream that I am flying. Something free. It never works...

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That smile's gonna be the end of me.

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The little things... there's nothing bigger, is there?

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Oh, great. Because for a minute there I thought we were talking about A **** MASK!!

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I lost you when I got in that car.

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I remember. Somebody died. It was me.

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Look at us. I'm frozen, and you're dead. And I love you.

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Doc, once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour, somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.

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These? These are more than headaches. These are steel plates slicing through my every thought.

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I wanna wake up! Tech support! It's a nightmare! Tech support! Tech support!

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I want to live a real life... I don't want to dream any longer.

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You're not blind. You're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack, you start in with that... Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, "King of Sad" thing.

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A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence like the Normandy invasion. (Sofia, Sofia...) I'll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again.

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Primer on David Aames Senior. My father wasn't built for the 21st century. He never went to McDonald's, not once. He never watched television, and yet... his biggest magazine is still the TV Digest. He and my mother threw the grandest parties of the literary world. Ballooned. Jumped out of airplanes. He sought adventure. His autobiography is the manual... for every cutthroat publisher in New York City.

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I dug her completely. Some how I'd found the last semi-guy less girl in New York City.

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One kiss

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I don't care if God calls, I'm very, very busy.

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I am a pleasure delayer.

Who are you?

Julie

I'm Sofia.

You are not Sofia.

Julie

I'm Sofia.

Whatever.

I wasn't hitting on Sophia.

Brian:

Oh, fine. Whatever you say. I'm crazy. I'm blind.

You're not blind, you're drinking Jack Daniels, and when you drink Jack you start in with that, "Frank Sinatra, she shot me down, give me a cigarette, King of Sad" thing.

Brian:

That I do. Give me a cigarette.

I'll find one.

Brian:

But wait. You're rich and women love you, and I'm from Ohio and I'm drunk. Can I tell you the truth?

Everybody does.

Brian:

I dig her. And I've never said this to you before about any girl, but she could be - could be, could be, could be - the girl of my **** dreams.

You're not from Ohio.

Brian:

I know. But if she ****s up our friendship, she can go to hell. I won't allow it. We are bros.

I feel the same way.

Brian:

Sure you do.

How 'bout if you help me, unless i'm horning in here.

You are, but the food's good.

See, I've got this little problem. I've got a stalker.

It doesn't sound life threatening.

But I need a cover. I need for you to pretend we're having a scintillating conversation, and you are wildly entertained. I know it's tough.

I'll improvise.

She's across the room and burning a hole in my back now, isn't she?

Red dress, strappy shoes? Wow. She's really staring at you.

Shit.

And she seems to be crying. Less happy. I think she's the saddest girl to ever hold a martini.