Closer (I) (2004)

Clive Owen: Larry

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• Larry : Alice, tell me something true.

  Alice : Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.

• Larry : What does your cunt taste like?

  Alice : Heaven.

• Anna : We do everything that people who have sex do!

  Larry : Do you enjoy sucking him off?

  Anna : Yes!

  Larry : You like his cock?

  Anna : I love it!

  Larry : You like him coming in your face?

  Anna : Yes!

  Larry : What does it taste like?

  Anna : It tastes like you but sweeter!

  Larry : That's the spirit. Thank you. Thank you for your honesty. Now fuck off and die, you fucked up slag.

• Alice : I'm not a whore.

  Larry : I wouldn't pay.

• Larry : You don't know the first thing about love, because you don't understand compromise.

• Anna : I'm sorry you're...

  Larry : Don't say it! Don't you fucking say you're too good for me. I am, but don't say it.

• Dan : I want Anna back.

  Larry : She's made her choice.

  Dan : I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.

  Larry : So where's the apology? Ya cunt.

  Dan : I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.

  Larry : She doesn't want to be happy.

  Dan : Everybody wants to be happy.

  Larry : Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

• Dan : You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram.

  Larry : Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! You writer! You liar!

• Larry : [on a photography exhibit]  What do you think?

  Alice : It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.

  Larry : I'm the big fat liar's boyfriend.

  Alice : Bastard!

• Anna : Why is the sex so important?

  Larry : Because I'm a fucking caveman!

• Larry : There's a girl out there who calls herself Venus, what's her real name?

  Alice : Pluto.

• Larry : Dan, I lied to you. I did fuck Alice. Sorry for telling you. I'm just not big enough to forgive you, Buster.

• Larry : Is he a good fuck?

  Anna : Don't do this.

  Larry : Just answer the question! Is he good?

  Anna : Yes.

  Larry : Better than me?

  Anna : Different.

  Larry : Better?

  Anna : Gentler.

  Larry : What does that mean?

  Anna : You know what it means.

  Larry : Tell me!

  Anna : No.

  Larry : I treat you like a whore?

  Anna : Sometimes.

  Larry : Why would that be?

• Larry : So Anna tell me your bloke wrote a book. Any good?

  Alice : Of course.

  Larry : It's about you isn't it?

  Alice : Some of me.

  Larry : Oh? What did he leave out?

  Alice : The truth.

• Larry : Of course she enjoyed it. As you know, she loves a guilty fuck.

• Larry : You shouldn't smoke.

  Alice : Fuck off.

  Larry : I'm a doctor. I'm supposed to say things like that.

• Dan : You love her like a dog loves its owner.

  Larry : And the owner loves the dog for so doing.

  Dan : You'll hurt her. You'll never forgive her.

  Larry : Of course I'll forgive her. I *have* forgiven her. Without forgiveness we're savages. You're drowning.

• Larry : Are you dressed because you thought I might hit you? What do you think I am?

  Anna : I've been hit before.

  Larry : Not by me!

• Larry : I want you to tell me your name. Please.

  [throws down a note] 

  Alice : Thank you. My name is Jane.

  Larry : Your real name.

  [throws down another note] 

  Alice : Thank you. My real name is Jane.

  Larry : Careful.

  [throws down another note] 

  Alice : Thank you. Still Jane.

  Larry : I've about got another 500 quid here. Why don't I just give you all this money, and you tell me what your real name is, Alice.

  [throws down the rest of his money] 

  Alice : I promise.

  [picks up some of the money] 

  Alice : Thank you. My real name... is plain... Jane Jones.

• Larry : I used to come here a million years ago, when it was a punk club. The stage was... Everything is a version of something else. Twenty years ago. How old were you?

  Alice : Four.

  Larry : Christ. When I was in flares, you were in nappies.

  Alice : My nappies were flared.

• Larry : You still pissing about on the Net?

  Dan : Not recently.

  Larry : I wanted to kill you.

  Dan : I thought you wanted to fuck me.

  Larry : Don't get lippy. I liked your book, by the way.

  Dan : Thanks.

  [Sniffs] 

  Dan : You stand alone.

• Larry : I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

• Larry : I'll pay you.

  Alice : I don't need your money.

  Larry : You have my money.

  Alice : Thank you.

• Larry : A good fight is never clean.

• Larry : You're seeing him now? Since when?

  Anna : Since my opening last year.

  [pause] 

  Anna : I'm disgusting.

  Larry : You're phenomenal. You're so clever.

• Larry : Why didn't you just tell me the second I walked through the door?

  Anna : I was scared.

  Larry : You're a coward, you spoiled bitch.

• [as Alice strips for Larry] 

  Larry : Are you flirting with me?

  Alice : Maybe.

  Larry : Are you allowed to flirt with me?

  Alice : Sure.

  Larry : Really?

  Alice : No, I'm not. I'm breaking all the rules.

  Larry : You're mocking me!

  Alice : Yes, I'm allowed to flirt.

• Larry : What would happen if I touched you now?

  Alice : I would call security.

  Larry : And what would they do?

  Alice : They would ask you to leave and ask you not to come back.

  Larry : And if I refused to leave?

  Alice : They would remove you. Those are security cameras in the ceiling.

  Larry : I think it's best I don't attempt to touch you. I'd like to touch you. Later.

• Alice : Do you want one?

  Larry : No. Yes. No. Fuck it, yes!

  Larry : [takes the pack]  No. I've given up.

• Anna : Why are you dressed?

  Larry : Because I think you may be about to leave me and I didn't want to be wearing a dressing gown.

• Larry : [speaking to Anna]  You'd be my whore. And in return I will pay you with your liberty.

• Larry : I'm Larry, the doctor.

  Anna : Hello, doctor Larry.

  Larry : Feel free to call me The Sultan.

• Larry : But we're happy... Aren't we?

• Larry : Yes, I saw her naked. No, I did not fuck her.

• Larry : And on some small level, I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

• Larry : Dan...

  Dan : Yes?

  Larry : I lied to you, I did fuck Alice.

• Larry : You forget you're dealing with a clinical observer of the human carnival.

  Anna : Am I, now?

  Larry : Oh, yes.

  Anna : You seem more like the cat that got the cream, you can stop licking yourself.

• Larry : He's a stringy fucker.

• Larry : You think because you don't love us, or desire us, or even like us, you think you've won.

  Alice : It's not a war.

• Larry : [about Alice]  She has the moronic beauty of youth, but she's sly.

• Larry : Did you do it here?

  Anna : No.

  Larry : Why not?

  Anna : Do you wish we did?

  Larry : Just tell me the truth.

  Anna : Yes, we did it here.

  Larry : Where?

  Anna : [points]  There.

  Larry : On this? We had our first fuck on this. Did you think of me?

• Alice : So you're Anna's boyfriend.

  Larry : A princess *can* kiss a toad.

  Alice : Frog.

  Larry : Toad.

  Alice : Frog.

  Larry : Toad. Frog. Lobster. They're all the same.

• Larry : Are you leaving me? Because of this? Why?

  Anna : Dan.

  Larry : Cupid? He's our joke.

• Larry : So... you're a stripper.

  Alice : Yeah... and?

  Larry : [Larry leans in to kiss her, then he stops and begins to walk away]  You take care now.

• [each commenting on the other's lover] 

  Larry : He's very pretty.

  Alice : She's... very tall.

• Larry : You're mocking me.

  Alice : Yes I'm allowed to flirt.

  Larry : To prise my money from me.

  Alice : To prise your money from you I may do or say as I please.

  Larry : Except touch?

  Alice : We're not allowed to touch.

• Larry : As dermatological conferences go, it was a riot.

• Larry : Everyone needs looking after.