Endless Love (1981)

Shirley Knight: Ann

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Quotes 

• Jade Butterfield : You know what I keep thinking about? A night in the house. I was a little girl, and then I saw David all alone. And I don't know. I just... I wanted to go to him. Was that wrong? I wasn't a happy little girl anymore. Something changed. The first time in my life I was me.

  Ann Butterfield : Life goes on. We change.

  Jade Butterfield : But it hurts. It hurts so much.

  Ann Butterfield : Oh, Baby, it all happened so fast for you. When you live a lifetime you'll understand it.

  Jade Butterfield : But he loved me. He loves me! No one will ever love me as much.

  Ann Butterfield : Many people will love you. You'll see.

  Jade Butterfield : But not like that. Not like David.

• Ann Butterfield : [to David]  Of all the things I regret I did, the ones I didn't, are the ones I mourn the most.

• David Axelrod : I heard you were writing again. It's great. Tell me... That story you wrote about me. Do you have a copy? I'd like to read it sometime.

  Ann Butterfield : It isn't just about you. It's about you and Jade and me. It's about the time I saw the two of you making love.

• Ann Butterfield : [to David]  I think that night... that night that I came down and saw you with Jade and then made love to my husband... I was making love to you.

• Ann Butterfield : What's that look?

  Hugh Butterfield : David's here! I just caught them bare-assed in her room!

  Ann Butterfield : [laid back]  My God! I thought it was something awful.

  [sighs] 

  Ann Butterfield : You were meant to catch them, I'm sure.

  Hugh Butterfield : [fuming]  She didn't even bat an eyelash.

  Ann Butterfield : [scoffs]  You didn't raise her to be a hypocrite.

  [pulls curtain over doorway for privacy] 

  Ann Butterfield : You know he's been staying over, don't you?

  [gets surprised look] 

  Ann Butterfield : Yes, he hides in the house till they think we're asleep. And of course he scuttles away at dawn. They're rather sweet. Like bats.

  [smiles, imitating bats flying off] 

  Hugh Butterfield : [shaking head in dismay]  I do not know what to do about this.

  Ann Butterfield : [ironic]  I am so happy to hear you say that. You are always so definite with the children. Let's all be open about sex.

  [elementary gesture] 

  Ann Butterfield : Well, they certainly got the idea. They feel free to express love. It's worth all those awful frank discussions at the dining room table.

  Hugh Butterfield : [rising]  We're not talking about morality.

  Ann Butterfield : I'm - -

  [interrupted] 

  Hugh Butterfield : This boy thinks he can come in here-...

  Ann Butterfield : [insisting]  They believed everything that we said. Imagine.

  Hugh Butterfield : A girl like that doesn't have to take the first guy who comes along.

  Ann Butterfield : Oh, I didn't realize we were saving her for somebody special.

  Hugh Butterfield : Oh...

  Ann Butterfield : Are we saving her for someone rich?

  Hugh Butterfield : God damn it! That's not fair! The girl is fifteen years old! Now when is she gonna study, when is she gonna sleep?

  Ann Butterfield : Come on. You're the one that's always saying she's sleeping too much. I know it's difficult, but aren't you happy that she has someone? That someone finally had the courage to wake up Sleeping Beauty?

  [Disgruntled, Hugh takes a swig of orange juice] 

  Ann Butterfield : It had to happen, sooner or later.

  [Hugh mulls over, frowns, sighs deeply] 

• Hugh Butterfield : [finds Jade with a pill bottle]  What are you doing? Give me that!

  Jade Butterfield : No! No!

  Hugh Butterfield : Give me that! Open your hand, damn it! Jesus Christ, I don't believe this!

  Jade Butterfield : [whining]  I can't sleep.

  Hugh Butterfield : You don't fool around with these things!

  Jade Butterfield : [whining louder]  I can't sleep!

  Hugh Butterfield : Neither can anybody else in this house!

  Ann Butterfield : [Jade sobs, she comes running in]  Hugh, for heaven's sake!

  Hugh Butterfield : She comes in here, and helps herself to these pills.

  Jade Butterfield : I needed something to sleep!

  Hugh Butterfield : You don't help yourself to pills like this!

  Ann Butterfield : Why don't you lock the cabinet?

  [hands in hair] 

  Ann Butterfield : It's too early for all this shouting. Let her have a pill.

  Hugh Butterfield : Stay the hell out of this!

  [pushing Ann back] 

  Hugh Butterfield : I'm the doctor here and I don't want her to have these!

  Jade Butterfield : [crying]  Then give me something else!

  Hugh Butterfield : You bring your goddamn boyfriend in here, you keep everybody else awake, I'm fed up with it!

  [slams his fist] 

  Sammy Butterfield : [from upstairs]  I can't sleep with all this racket going on!

  [Keith also comes down the stairs, glaring down] 

  Hugh Butterfield : I will not have this family torn apart! David can not stay here!

  Jade Butterfield : [tearfully]  Yes, he can! It is my room! We are not a couple of little kids!

  Hugh Butterfield : He doesn't give a damn about you! All he cares about is his own satisfaction! I don't want him in your room, I don't want him in this house!

  Ann Butterfield : Stop it!

  Jade Butterfield : [wailing, to Hugh]  You're just jealous, you're jealous of us!

  Ann Butterfield : Baby, calm down!

  Jade Butterfield : [accusing Hugh]  You're such a hypocrite! You say one thing to David, you say something else to me! You change your mind from one minute to the next!