Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Mia Farrow: Halley Reed
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Quotes
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Halley Reed : I wanted to give you this letter back.
Clifford Stern : It's my one love letter.
Halley Reed : It's beautiful. I'm just the wrong person.
Clifford Stern : It's probably just as well. I plagiarized most of it from James Joyce. You probably wondered why all the references to Dublin.
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Clifford Stern : I know this guy! He won't be able to take his hands off you. He'll get you in a room, you know, and he'll - he'll read you your Miranda rights and he'll tear your clothes off!
Halley Reed : He's interested in producing something of mine.
Clifford Stern : Your first child!
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Lester : If you play your cards right, you could have my body.
Halley Reed : Wouldn't you rather leave it to science?
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Lester : I like mental stimulation.
Halley Reed : Have you tried shock therapy?
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Clifford Stern : What are you bothering with this guy for? I mean, you know, he's such a pompous bore and your show does such great profiles.
Halley Reed : Well, listen, I'll tell you, just between you and me, I wanted to do Gabriel García Márquez.
Clifford Stern : That's perfect!
Halley Reed : They like to mix it up. They like a little variety. After all, he is an American phenomenon.
Clifford Stern : Yeah, but so is acid rain.
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Halley Reed : [on the philosopher Lewis Levy] He was very eloquent on the subject of love, didn't you think?
Clifford Stern : I wish I had met him before I got married. It would've saved me a gall bladder operation.
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Halley Reed : My ex-husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should've taken a second look.
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Lester : Will you listen to me? I'm offering you my heart and you're squashing it. Come on. When are you going to quit this organization and come work for me?
Halley Reed : Oh, you'd fire me. I'm much too opinionated.
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Lester : How about this? Why don't you come with me down to Barbados. We'll swim, you know. We'll get some sun.
Halley Reed : Sorry, I freckle.
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Clifford Stern : I have so much good footage of him. You know, even though we just met, I've taken an instant liking to you.
Halley Reed : And I to him.
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Halley Reed : I never should have told you my weakness is going to the movies in the daytime.
Clifford Stern : I go all the time with my niece. It's wonderful! You know, its like playing hooky.
Halley Reed : Yeah, that's what you said yesterday. We were late then, too.
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Clifford Stern : You want some champagne?
Halley Reed : I - I - I'd love - I never say no to champagne - or caviar.
Clifford Stern : Okay, that's perfect! I - I have no caviar, of course. I have oat bran. Which is better for your heart.
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Clifford Stern : You must have had a pretty terrible marriage if you don't want to be asked out on any dates.
Halley Reed : Well, no, I mean, he was great. You know, very brilliant. He's an architect. Real handsome and everything. But, if you're going to have an affair, not with my best friend, in my four poster bed, and they definitely didn't have to finish all my pistachio nuts.
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Halley Reed : I've never been seduced by a guy who wears loafers and no socks.
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Halley Reed : What are you doing with a copy of "Singin' in the Rain"?
Clifford Stern : It's - it's the one print that I own. It's a very good 16 mm print. I play it every couple of months to get my spirits up.
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Wendy Stern : We really do have to go. I have to get up at dawn and teach Emily Dickinson to a bunch of upper-middle class crack addicts.
Halley Reed : One of my favorite poets.
Clifford Stern : Me too!
Halley Reed : "Because I could not stop for Death - "
Clifford Stern : "He kindly stopped for me - " The word "kindly" - right?
Lester : "The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality. We slowly drove - He knew no haste, And I had put away, My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility - "
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Halley : Don't get discouraged. You have your own personal vision.
