The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Gwyneth Paltrow: Margot Tenenbaum

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• Eli : I'm not in love with you any more.

  Margot : I didn't know you ever were.

  Eli : Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is.

  Margot : OK.

  Eli : OK, what?

  Margot : OK, I'm not in love with you either.

  Eli : Yes, I know, you're in love with Richie. Which is sick and gross.

• Margot : I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie.

• Margot : Do you send my mother your clippings and your grades from college?

  Eli : Please stop belittling me. You never gave me the time of day til I started getting good reviews.

  Margot : Your reviews aren't that good.

  Eli : But the sales are.

• Margot : [about Richie's suicide attempt]  Why'd you do it? Because of me?

  Richie : Yeah, but it's not your fault.

  Margot : You're not going to do it again, are you?

  Richie : I doubt it.

  [Margot starts to cry] 

• Raleigh : You don't love me any more, do you?

  Margot : I do, kind of. I can't explain it right now.

• Richie : I have to tell you something...

  Margot : What's that?

  Richie : I love you.

  Margot : I love you, too.

• Raleigh : Are you ever coming home?

  Margot : Maybe not.

  Raleigh : You're joking.

  Margot : No.

  Raleigh : Well, I want to die.

• Royal : [Points to Henry]  He's not your father.

  Margot : Neither are you.

• Ethel : How long have you been a smoker?

  Margot : 22 years.

  Ethel : Well, I think you should quit.

• Royal : [about Raleigh]  You're two-timing him with that bloodsucker Eli Cash. Now, that's just not right, dammit. You used to be a genius.

  Margot : No, I didn't.

  Royal : Anyway, that's what they used to say.

• Royal : Can we get somebody over here to kill these mice for us?

  Margot : No. They belong to Chas. Or anyway he invented them.

  Royal : Get him to stick them in a fucking cage or something.

• Royal : First thing I want to do is take you out to see your grandmother, at some point.

  Richie : I haven't been out there since I was 6.

  Margot : I haven't been out there at all, I was never invited.

  Royal : Well, she wasn't your real grandmother, and I never knew how much interest you had, uh, sweetie. Anyway, you're invited now.

  Richie : You know, Rachael's buried out there too.

  Royal : Who?

  Chas : My wife.

  Royal : Oh, that's right, isn't it. Well, we'll have to swing by her grave too.

  [Chas slams his book shut and angrily walks out] 

• [at the hospital, after Richie has slashed his wrists] 

  Margot : Dudley, where is he?

  Dudley Heinsbergen : [has Richie's blood splattered all over his shirt]  Who?

• Ethel : Raleigh says you've been spending 6 hours a day locked in here, watching television and soaking in the tub.

  Margot : [lying in the bath]  I doubt that.

  Ethel : Well, I don't think that's very healthy, do you? Nor do I think it's very intelligent to keep an electrical gadget on the edge of the bathtub.

  Margot : I tie it to the radiator.

• Margot : You probably don't even know my middle name.

  Royal : That's a trick question. You don't have one.

  Margot : Helen.

  Royal : That was my mother's name.

  Margot : I know it was.

• Eli : [hearing the news that Royal is dying]  I am very sorry, Margot.

  Margot : It's okay. We're not actually related anyway.

  Eli : True.

• Raleigh : You've made a cuckold of me.

  Margot : I know.

  Raleigh : Many times over.

  Margot : I'm sorry.

  Raleigh : And you nearly killed your poor brother.

  Ethel : What's he talking about?

  Margot : It doesn't matter.

  Raleigh : She's balling Eli Cash.

• Chas : Please don't get in the middle of this, Mr. Sherman. This is a family matter.

  Margot : Don't talk to him like that.

  Henry Sherman : Call me Henry.

  Chas : I prefer Mr. Sherman.

  Ethel : Call him Henry.

  Chas : Why? I don't know him that well.

  Ethel : You've known him for 10 years.

  Chas : As your accountant, Mr. Sherman, yes.

• Richie : You dropped some cigarettes.

  Margot : Those aren't mine.

  Richie : They just fell out of your pocket.

• Richie : And I heard about Eli.

  Margot : I know. Poor Eli. Anyway, we mostly just talked about you.

  Richie : You did?

  Margot : Yeah. I guess that was the attraction, if you know what I mean.

• Ari : [about Margot's severed finger]  Did you try to sew it back on?

  Margot : Wasn't worth it.

• Eli : How's Richie?

  Margot : I don't know. I can't tell.

  Eli : Yeah, me neither. He wrote me a letter. He says he's in love with you.

  Margot : What are you talking about?

  Eli : That's what he said. I don't know how we're supposed to take it.

• Ethel : He was depressed.

  Margot : So am I!

  Ethel : So are you, what?