Marriage Story (2019)

Scarlett Johansson: Nicole Barber

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• Nicole : I never really came alive for myself; I was only feeding his aliveness.

• Nicole : You shouldn't have fired Bert.

  Charlie : I needed my own asshole.

• Nicole : [while arguing with Charlie]  You're being so much like your father.

  Charlie : Do not compare me to my father!

  Nicole : I didn't compare you to him. I said you were acting like him.

  Charlie : You're exactly like your mother. Everything you were complaining about her, you're doing. You're suffocating Henry.

  Nicole : First of all, I love my mother. She was a wonderful mother.

  Charlie : I'm just repeating what you told me.

  Nicole : Secondly, how dare you compare my mothering to my mother! I may be like my father, but I am not like my mother!

  Charlie : You are! And you're like my father! You're also like my mother! You're all the bad things about all of these people! But mostly your mother.

• Nicole : You're such a dick!

  Charlie : Everyday I wake up and I hope you're dead! Dead, like, If I could guarantee Henry would be OK, I'd hope you get an illness and then get hit by a car and die!

  [He begins weeping, and then falls to his knees] 

  Charlie : [Through tears]  I'm sorry.

  Nicole : [Comforting him]  Me too.

• Nicole : Anyway... .Shall we try this?

  Charlie : Ok

  Charlie : I don't know how to start...

  Nicole : Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?

  Charlie : No.

  Nicole : Well, that's not... Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start...

  Charlie : I don't understand it.

  Nicole : You don't remember promising that we could do time out there?

  Charlie : We discussed things. We were married, we said things. We talked about moving to Europe, about getting a sideboard or what do you call it, a credenza, to fill that empty space behind the couch. We never did any of it.

• Nicole : You should've considered my happiness too.

  Charlie : Come on! You *were* happy. You've just decided that you weren't now.

• Charlie : You want to present yourself as a victim because it's a good legal strategy. Fine, but you and i both know you chose this life ! You wanted it until you didn't. You used me so you could get out of LA.

  Nicole : I didn't use you.

  Charlie : You did, and then you blamed me for it ! You always made me aware of what i was doing wrong, how i was falling short !

• Nora Fanshaw : Where do you want to live now, doll?

  Nicole : Well, I'm here now, obviously. I don't know if the show will get picked up. It feels like home. It is home. It's the only home I've ever known without Charlie.

  Nora Fanshaw : You want to stay here?

  Nicole : Charlie's not going to want that. He hates LA.

  Nora Fanshaw : We're interested in what you want to do. What you're doing is an act of hope. You understand that?

  Nicole : Yeah.

• Nicole : You're so merged with your own selfishness, you don't even identify it as selfishness anymore!