The Hours (2002)

Ed Harris: Richard Brown

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• Richard Brown : Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence.

• Clarissa Vaughn : All right Richard, do me one simple favor. Come. Come sit.

  Richard Brown : I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa.

  Clarissa Vaughn : You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.

  Richard Brown : But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...

  Clarissa Vaughn : You do have good days still. You know you do.

  Richard Brown : Not really. I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true.

• Richard Brown : Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?

• Richard Brown : Like that morning, when you walked out of that old house and you were, you were eighteen, and maybe I was nineteen. I was nineteen years old, and I'd never seen anything so beautiful. You, coming out of a glass door in your early morning, still sleepy. Isn't it strange, the most ordinary morning in anybody's life? I'm afraid I can't make it to the party, Clarissa. You've been so good to me, Mrs. Dalloway, I love you. I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.

• Richard Brown : I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.

• Richard Brown : Who is this party for?

  Clarissa Vaughan : What are you asking, what are you trying to say?

  Richard Brown : I'm not trying to say anything. I think I'm staying alive just to satisfy you.

• Clarissa Vaughan : Just to let you know I am making the crab thing. Not that I imagine it makes any difference to you.

  Richard Brown : Of course it makes a difference. I love the crab thing.

• Richard Brown : Would you be angry if I died?

• Richard Brown : We want everything, don't we?

  Clarissa Vaughn : I suppose we do.

• Richard Brown : I had this wonderful notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!

• Richard Brown : I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers look when you carry them in your arms. This towel - how it smells , how it feels. It's thread. All our feelings - yours and mine. The history of it. Who we once were. Everything in the world. Everything all mixed up. Like it's all mixed up now. And I failed. I failed. No matter what you start up with, it ends up being so much less. Sheer fucking pride! And stupidity.

• Clarissa Vaughn : Richard. Richard. It's a party. It's only a party. Populated entirely by people who respect and admire you.

  Richard Brown : Ah, a small party, is it?

• Richard Brown : I seem to have fallen out of time.