Lost in Translation (2003)

Scarlett Johansson: Charlotte

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• Bob : It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids.

  Charlotte : It's scary.

  Bob : The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born.

  Charlotte : Nobody ever tells you that.

  Bob : Your life, as you know it... is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk... and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life.

  Charlotte : That's nice.

• Charlotte : Let's never come here again because it would never be as much fun.

• Charlotte : I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.

  Bob : You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

• Bob : I don't want to leave.

  Charlotte : So don't. Stay here with me. We'll start a jazz band.

• Charlotte : I just feel so alone, even when I'm surrounded by other people.

• Bob : Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or you out?

  Charlotte : I'm in. I'll go pack my stuff.

  Bob : I hope that you've had enough to drink. It's going to take courage.

• Charlotte : I'm stuck. Does it get easier?

  Bob : No. - Yes, it gets easier.

  Charlotte : Oh yeah? Look at you.

  Bob : Thanks.

• Charlotte : 25 years. That's uh, well it's impressive.

  Bob : Well you figure, you sleep one-third of your life, that knocks out eight years of marriage right there. So you're, y'know, down to 16 in change. You know you're just a teenager, at marriage, you can drive it but there's still the occasional accident.

• Charlotte : I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking pictures of your feet.

• Charlotte : You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?

• Charlotte : [Bob is recollecting when he first saw Charlotte, in the elevator]  Did I scowl at you?

  Bob : No, you smiled.

  Charlotte : I did?

  Bob : Yes, it was a complete accident. A freak. I haven't seen it since. Just that one time.

  [Charlotte smiles] 

  Bob : Like that, but bigger... bigger... mm-hmm... well, not that big!

• Charlotte : So, what are you doing here?

  Bob : Uh, a couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son's birthday. And, uh, getting paid two million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere.

  Charlotte : Oh.

  Bob : But the good news is, the whiskey works.

• Charlotte : That was the worst lunch.

  Bob : So bad. What kind of restaurant makes you cook your own food?

• Bob : I was feeling tight in the shoulders and neck, so I called down and had a Shiatsu massage in my room...

  Charlotte : Mmh, that's nice!

  Bob : And the tightness has completely disappeared and been replaced by unbelievable pain.

  [Charlotte laughs] 

• Charlotte : Why do they switch the r's and the l's here?

  Bob : Uh... for yuks. You know? Just to mix it up.

  Bob : They have to amuse themselves, 'cause we're not making them laugh.

• Charlotte : [on the phone]  I went to this temple and all these monks were chanting and I didn't feel anything. John's been using these hair products and I don't know who I married anymore.

• Charlotte : [after Bob tells her of his back pain]  I'm in pain, I got my foot banged up. Wanna see it?

  Bob : [to Chef, sarcastically]  How do you say no?

  [sees the foot] 

  Bob : Oh, my gosh! When did you do this?

  Charlotte : I did it the other day, it hurts, y'know?

  Bob : Didn't you feel any pain?

  Charlotte : Yeah, it really hurt.

  Bob : That toe is almost dead.

  [Charlotte laughs] 

  Bob : I think I got to take you to a doctor, you can't just put that back in the shoe. Well, you either go to a doctor or you leave it here.

  [regarding Chef] 

  Bob : He's smiling. You like that idea? See they love black toe in this country.

  [Charlotte continues laughing] 

• Bob : What are you doing?

  Charlotte : My husband's a photographer, so he's here working. I wasn't doing anything so I came along.

  Bob : What do you do?

  Charlotte : I'm not sure yet, actually.

• Kelly : But listen, let's all go out for a drink sometimes. Yeah?

  John : Yeah, yeah.

  Kelly : You know, call me, okay?

  John : Yeah, okay.

  Kelly : Alright. Listen, I'm under Evelyn Waugh. Shh, okay?

  Charlotte : [after Kelly leaves]  Evelyn Waugh? Evelyn Waugh was a man.

  John : Oh, come on, she's nice. What? You know, not everybody went to Yale. It's just a pseudonym, for Christ's sake.

• Bob : What did you study?

  Charlotte : Philosophy.

  Bob : There's a lot of money in that racket. You just have to work out all the angles.

• [last lines] 

  Bob : Bye.

  Charlotte : Bye.

  Bob : Bye.

  [Bob leaves Charlotte and walks back to his waiting taxi] 

  Bob : [to taxi driver]  All right.

• Charlotte : [making fun of his one-night stand]  Well, she is closer to your age. You could talk about things you have in common, like growing up in the '50s. Maybe she liked the movies you were making in the '70s, when you still were making movies.

  Bob : Wasn't there anyone else there to lavish you with attention?

• DJ : I'd like to take that and lay it down with like a hip-hop beat like boom-tish boom-tish know what I mean?

  Charlotte : No.

• John : Do you have to smoke so much? It's just so bad for you.

  Charlotte : I'll stop later.

• John : Well, not everyone went to Yale.

  Charlotte : I thought it was funny.

• Charlotte : Worst fight ever.