Happiness (1998)

Lara Flynn Boyle: Helen Jordan

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• Helen Jordan : [picks up phone]  Hello?

  Allen : I know who you are and you are nothing. You think you are fucking something, but you are fucking nothing. You are empty. You are a zero. You are a black hole, and I'm gonna fuck you so bad you'll be coming out of your ears.

  [slams down phone, pants for air] 

• Helen Jordan : I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.

  Joy Jordan : But I'm not laughing.

• Helen Jordan : Y'know, people are always putting New Jersey down. None of my friends can believe I live here. But that's because they don't get it: I'm living in a state of irony.

• Helen Jordan : If only I had been raped as a child! *Then* I would know authenticity!

• Helen Jordan : It's just I'm... I'm so tired of being admired all the time. All these men I mean... they're all beautiful, artistic minds, great sex, the whole package, but hollow, you know what I mean? I feel nobody's really honest with me. Nobody wants me for me.

• Helen Jordan : Anyway, so the police came and looked in her freezer and found baggies filled with the doorman's genitals.

  Mona : I use baggies.

  Joy Jordan : Me too.

  Helen Jordan : Everyone uses baggies, that's why we can all relate to this crime. Don't you see?

• Helen Jordan : I want you to fuck me.

  Allen : I don't think I can do that.

• Helen Jordan : I've had you on auto-redial all night.