The Vanishing (1993)
Jeff Bridges: Barney Cousins
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Quotes
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Barney Cousins : Jeff, look at your life. You have nothing. No job. No love. No peace of mind. You've been searching for three years, at what point do you finally say to yourself I'm not going to wake up tomorrow and miraculously know what happened?
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Barney Cousins : I don't need a gun. Your obsession is my weapon.
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Barney Cousins : You don't care if she's alive or dead anymore.
Jeff Harriman : Yes I do.
Jeff Harriman : No you don't. You're just scared that without the search you won't know who you are. Who is Jeff Harriman, if he's not the guy looking for Diane? Can you really walk away from finally knowing the answer?
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Helene Cousins : Look, he put up a new one. I heard him on Talk Radio. Every month he puts up a new one.
Barney Cousins : Every 30 days, you could set your watch by it.
Helene Cousins : He must have loved her very much.
Barney Cousins : ...I do admire his perseverance.
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Jeff Harriman : I just want to know what happened to Diane.
Barney Cousins : Then you'll want to listen to the story, and you'll want to listen carefully because sometimes the Devil is in the details.
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Barney Cousins : To me, to kill is not the worst thing you can imagine. There is more.
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Barney Cousins : Look, I know you think restoring this cabin is a crazy idea, but what if it's not? What if I'm learning about myself as I go, realizing that if I can do this, I can do anything. So I take a step,I think is this crazy, should I stop?... Then I think, not yet, there's always time to turn back, if I want to so, I take another step... and another... and another... until one day I realize I've crossed that line... and there's no turning back.
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Barney Cousins : [after Jeff has beaten him to a bloody pulp] I'm sorry, were you done?
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Barney Cousins : What's this? Wuthering Heights? Denise, is it not sufficent that while you shall be at peace, I shall ride in the torments of hell?
Denise Cousins : ...It's romantic.
Barney Cousins : If they can put it in a book it's not romantic. Romance has to be secret.
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Jeff Harriman : I just want to know where Diane is.
Barney Cousins : Then you'll want to listen. Or the answer will slip right by you.
