Snow Cake (2006)
Alan Rickman: Alex Hughes
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Quotes
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Linda Freeman : B-A-A-N-G.
Alex Hughes : You can't have two A's in bang.
Linda Freeman : In Comic Book Word Scrabble, you can. You can have three A's if you want.
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Linda Freeman : Do people like you Alex?
Alex Hughes : Not much, no.
Linda Freeman : I'm not surprised. It's because those glasses don't look right on your face, you have a long face and those glasses make you look shifty.
Alex Hughes : Really?
Linda Freeman : Yes.
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Alex Hughes : So someone said you can drink this water.
Maggie : Yeah, it's supposed to have healing properties. Why don't you take a sip?
Alex Hughes : I don't think so.
Maggie : What, you don't want to be healed? Set free of your demons?
Alex Hughes : They keep me company.
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Alex Hughes : I don't have baggage. I have haulage.
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Alex Hughes : Being with you. Being with Linda. Being with myself again. Hey, and I'm having sex and these muffins are great. That sort of thing.
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Alex Hughes : I know how you must be feeling. I had a son...
Linda Freeman : You don't know how I'm feeling because you're not me.
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Alex Hughes : [of the autistic Linda] She's not *mad*.
Maggie : Oh, I know. Vivienne explained it all to me. High-functioning; can talk a glass eye to sleep; but can't tie her shoelaces.
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Alex Hughes : Mrs Summer said you can drink this water.
Maggie : Yeah, it's supposed to have healing properties. Why don't you take a sip?
Alex Hughes : [stammers briefly] Don't think so.
Maggie : What? You don't wanna be healed? Set free of your demons?
Alex Hughes : They keep me company.
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Vivienne Freeman : Behind every successful man is a truly astonished woman.
Alex Hughes : He's gay.
Vivienne Freeman : My point exactly.
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Linda Freeman : Have you ever had an orgasm, Alex?
Alex Hughes : It has been known.
Linda Freeman : It sounds like an inferior version of what I feel when I have a mouthful of snow.
[Shoves some into her mouth]
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Maggie : [offering to the tea-deprived Alex] Assam. Darjeeling.
Alex Hughes : [gratefully, choosing] There is a God!
Maggie : Nope, there is FedEx! An English friend of mine sent it over. Don't go inventing a deity to thank for the small miracles. They just happen.