Magnolia (1999)

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Phil Parma

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• [singing along to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up"] 

  Claudia Wilson Gator : It's not / What you thought / When you first began it / You got / What you want / Now you can hardly stand it though / By now you know / It's not going to stop

  Jim Kurring : It's not going to stop / It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up

  Jimmy Gator : You're sure / There's a cure / And you have finally found it

  Quiz Kid Donnie Smith : You think / One drink / Will shrink you 'til you're underground / And living down / But it's not going to stop

  Phil Parma : It's not going to stop

  Earl Partridge : It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up

  Linda Partridge : Prepare a list for what you need / Before you sign away the deed / 'Cause it's not going to stop

  Frank T.J. Mackey : It's not going to stop / It's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up / No, it's not going to stop / 'Til you wise up / No, it's not going to stop

  Stanley Spector : So just... give up

• Phil Parma : [looks out window]  Why are frogs falling from the sky?

• Earl Partridge : Phil. Phil. Hey, come here. Come here. Uh... Phil. I'm... I'm gonna try... talk. I'm gonna try to say something-something. Do you know Lily, Phil? Do you know her? Lily?

  Phil Parma : No, I don't.

  Earl Partridge : Oh, she's my love, my life, love of it. Y'know. In school... I'm twelve years old, in school, in sixth grade. I saw her. I didn't go to that school, but... uh... we met. My friend knew her. I said, uh... "What's that girl? How's that Lily?" "Oh, she's bad. She sleeps with guys." Yeah, he said this, but then sometimes... I went to another school, you see. But then... when high school - at an end. What is that when it gets to the end?

  Phil Parma : Graduation.

  Earl Partridge : No, no, the grade. What grade are you in?

  Phil Parma : That's 12th.

  Earl Partridge : Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I went to her school for that grade. Grade - that's grade twelve. And we meet. She was... fucking like a doll. A beautiful porcelain doll. And the hips, child-bearing hips, you know that? So, so beautiful. And I cheated on her... over and over and over again. Because I wanted to be a man. And I didn't want her to be a woman, you know? A smart, free person who was something! My fucking mind then. So stupid, that fucking mind! Stupid! Jesus Christ! What would I think, did I think for what I'd done? She was my wife for twenty-three years... and I went behind her over and over. Fucking asshole that I am. I'd go out and I'd fuck and I'd come home and get in her bed... and say... "I love you." This is Jack's mother. His mother, Lily. These two... that I had... and I lost. This is the regret that you make. This is the... regret that you make and the something you take and the blah, blah, blah, something, something. Gimme a cigarette. Mistakes like this... you don't make. Sometimes... you make some and OK. Not OK, sometimes, you make other ones. Know that you should do better. I loved Lily. I cheated on her. She was my wife for twenty-three years. And I have a son. And she has cancer. And I'm not there, and he's forced to take care of her. He's fourteen years old. To... to take care of his mother... and watch her die on him. A little kid, and I'm not there. And she does die.

• Phil Parma : I know this sounds silly, like this is the scene in the movie where the guy's trying to get ahold of the long-lost son, you know, but this is that scene. And I think they have those scenes in movies because they're true, you know? Because they really happen. See, this is the scene in the movie where you help me out.

• Phil Parma : [making an order over the phone]  I'd like to get an order of peanut butter, umm, uh, cigarettes, Camel Light, uhh, water...

  Pink Dot Girl : Bottled water?

  Phil Parma : No. You know what, forget the water. Just give me a loaf of bread. White bread.

  Pink Dot Girl : Okay.

  Phil Parma : And, umm, do you have Playboy magazine?

  Pink Dot Girl : Yeah.

  Phil Parma : Okay, one of those, and uh, Penthouse? The magazine?

  Pink Dot Girl : Yeah.

  Phil Parma : You have that? Okay uh, one of those, and umm... Hustler?

  Pink Dot Girl : Yeah.

  Phil Parma : You have that?

  Pink Dot Girl : Yeah, I said. That it?

  Phil Parma : Yeah that's it.

  Pink Dot Girl : Still want the peanut butter, bread, and cigarettes?

  Phil Parma : Yeah. What?

• Phil Parma : When was the last time you talked to your son?

  Earl Partridge : ...I don't know. Ten, maybe... five... *moans*... that's another thing that goes...

  Phil Parma : Your memory?

  Earl Partridge : Time lines, you know? I remember things, but not... right there, you know?

  Phil Parma : Yeah.

  Earl Partridge : 'Yeah.' The fuck do you know?

  Phil Parma : I've seen it before.

  Earl Partridge : Yeah, other assholes like me.

  Phil Parma : Oh, there's no asshole like you.

  Earl Partridge : Cocksucker.

  Phil Parma : How come every other word you use is either 'cocksucker', 'shitballs' or 'fuck'?

  Earl Partridge : Do me a personal favor.

  Phil Parma : Go fuck myself?

  Earl Partridge : Yeah, you got it.

• Phil Parma : He will start to disappear.