Lost and Delirious (2001)
Piper Perabo: Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
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Quotes
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Paulie : Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar! You've all got your heads up your assholes because love *is.* It just *is* and nothing you can say can make it go away because it is the point of why we are here, it is the highest point and once you are up there, looking down on everyone else, you're there forever. Because if you move, right, you fall. You fall.
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Paulie : Shall I abide in this dull world, which in her absence is no better then a sty?
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Paulie : When she's old, I'm going to carry her around on my back.
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Paulie : I'm Paulie.
[exhales cigarette smoke]
Paulie : Oster.
[shakes Mouse's hand firmly]
Mouse : Mary Bedford. Mouse, really... they call me.
Paulie : [chuckles] I'd rather call you shithead than Mouse.
Paulie : [sits down next to Mouse] So you're roomin' with me and Tori, huh?
Mouse : Yeah, that's what Miss Vaughn said.
Paulie : Well, I guess she didn't like us up there all by our lonesome.
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[Paulie enters the library in a fencing outfit carrying a sword, and stands on top of the table Tori is studying at]
Paulie : I shall make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night; Halloo your name to the reverberate hills and make the babbling gossip of the air cry out 'Victoria!'
Eleanor Bannet : Paulie... why don't you come down from there?
[touches her arm]
Paulie : [flinches away] Don't ever touch a raptor.
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[Mouse and Tori are sleeping. Paulie comes over to Tori's bed, lifts up the cover, the climbs into the bed, getting on top of Tori]
Paulie : I bet he doesn't know how to do what I can do for you.
[Paulie starts to kiss Tori on her chin... Tori tries to push Paulie off]
Tori : Paulie...
[Paulie starts kissing and touching her. Tori moans...]
Tori : Paulie!
[Tori pushes Paulie off of her, and then sits up]
Tori : Paulie, there'll be no more of this, okay?
[Mouse is awake, and she looks over to Tori's bed and listens]
Tori : I love Jake!
[Paulie doesn't say anything, just sits beside Tori on the bed. Tori gets out of bed and stands on the floor with her back to Paulie. Paulie kneels on the bed and leans forward. Tori turns to Paulie, then kneels down to face her. She puts one hand on Paulie's face]
Tori : Paulie, listen to me, okay? Because I'm only gonna say this once and never, ever again. I will never love anybody the way I love you. Never. You know that, and I know that, and I will die knowing that, ok? But it just can never, it just can never, ever, forever be. Do you understand?
[pause]
Tori : It just can never, ever, forever be.
[She kisses Paulie, then gets up, but Paulie still holds on to her hand. Tori pulls it away. Paulie leans over on the bed, face down, and starts to cry]
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[Everybody on the field looks up and sees Paulie on the roof of the builing with the falcon perched on her arm]
Mouse : [Quietly, in tears] Paulie... Paulie... please!
Paulie : [recites] 'I will make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call upon my soul within the house... '
[Tori's eyes widen as she shakes uncontrollably]
Paulie : [quietly] I rush into the secret house...
[Paulie stretches both of her arms out sideways]
Tori : PAULIE!
[Paulie leans forward and then falls off the roof. The falcon flies away]
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Paulie : Mouse, where is your father? Did I see you cry? Did you cry like a girl? Like a girly, girly girl? I've been crying, too, Mary B. I've been crying like a girly girl, sucky suck for weeks now! And it's time... it's time for the raptor... Are you with me? I hate my father! Say it, it's easy... come on... Say I HATE MY FATHER!
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Paulie : Hey boys, didn't you see the sign? "No dickheads allowed."
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Cordelia : [Tori ignores Paulie's beckoning to her and Mouse and sits with Cordelia and Kara, and Mouse continues to Paulie's table]
[to Tori]
Cordelia : So... how are you?
Tori : First of all, whatever they're saying is trash talk. Stupid. I know you guys won't listen to it.
Cordelia : Of course not. God, I mean, even if it was true, I'd still be like, "So? Grow up."
Tori : But it's not true.
Cordelia : I mean, like, my aunt is gay. Like, get over it.
Tori : Yeah, but I'm not. Totally. So...
Cordelia : No, I know.
Mouse : [She and Paulie have overheard the conversation] She's upset. Give her time.
Paulie : Bedford, this is a dark day.
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Fay Vaughn : Paulie, you looked like you were involved with the piece.
Paulie : Actually, I was just thinking whether the Jays were gonna take the World Series again.
Fay Vaughn : I don't believe you, Paulie. I saw you listening.
Paulie : You can go fuck yourself sideways.
[storms out of the classroom]
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Jake Hollander : [after Paulie attacks him viciously to start their duel] Place your bets, my friends.
John : Go Jake!
Paulie : [brandishes sword] For my love.
Jake Hollander : If you're talking about Tori, twit, get real. She hates you. She's just too nice to tell you.
Paulie : She loves me.
Jake Hollander : Stop talking shit, Paulie. Tori is my girlfriend.
[Paulie glares and lunges, and the fight continues]
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Paulie : Hey, new girl, what do you think of Vaughnie?
Tori : [giggling] Don't call her "new girl," it's so rude!
Mouse : Miss Vaughn? She's nice.
[Paulie chuckles]
Tori : Some of the girls say rude things about her.
Paulie : She and Bannet, they got it goin' on for sure.
Tori : Paulie, give it a rest. She's just a single lady, and they're very good friends, and that's it. Don't be so mean... or homophobic.
Mouse : She seemed nice to me.
[Paulie and Tori stare at her]
Mouse : I mean, um, normal. Well, not...
Paulie : I'm not sayin' she's not nice new girl, I'm sayin' shes a LES-BO! And she got the hots for Tori here.
[Tori scoffs]
Paulie : Who can blame her, eh?
[squeezes Tori's face playfully]
Paulie : Beautiful.
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Eleanor Bannet : What do you think you're doing?
Paulie : I'm teaching, Miss Bannet, what you should've been doin'.
Tori : [whispers] Paulie, don't.
Eleanor Bannet : Out of my classroom! You will go to Miss Vaughn's, and explain why you are not in my class, and suffer the consequences.
[Paulie doesn't move]
Eleanor Bannet : Do you hear me? Am I not clear?
Paulie : [smirks] You have a nice day now, Eleanor.
[winks seductively and saunters out]
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[Paulie points her sword on Jake as he lies on the ground and runs the pointed end from his chest down to his right thigh]
Paulie : [about Tori] Give her up!
Mouse : Paulie!
Paulie : Say, "I... give... her... up!"
Jake Hollander : Go fuck yourself!
[Paulie thrusts her sword into Jake's thigh, making him scream at the top of his lungs, and so does Paulie]
Mouse : Paulie, no!
John : Fucking bitch!
Mouse : Paulie!
Jake Hollander : [to John and Phil] She cut me!
John : Fucking bitch!
[John and Phil try to help Jake stop the bleeding while Mouse pulls Paulie away]
Mouse : [Shaking Paulie] What are you doing? What are you doing?
Jake Hollander : You are fucking crazy!
[Paulie breaks down and runs off screaming]
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[while Tori is dancing with her father, Paulie appears at the party dressed in a men's suit. As she is walking in, everyone is looking at her. She walks over to where Tori and her father are, and just stands there staring at Tori. A few seconds later, Bruce looks over at Paulie. Then Tori looks over too. Paulie steps in closer to them]
Paulie : Good evening, Victoria. Hello Bruce!
Bruce Moller : Good evening.
Paulie : Bruce, I wonder if I might cut in?
Bruce Moller : This is a joke, right?
Paulie : Joke? I'm asking you... nicely... can I dance with your daughter please?
Bruce Moller : I'm afraid I don't think that's appropriate, and I don't think Victoria does either, so...
[She cuts in anyway, and shoves Bruce out of the way. They are dancing together now. And by now, mostly everyone at the party is watching]
Tori : Are you crazy?
Paulie : What? You don't like dancing? You used to love to dance with me on the roof, remember?
Tori : Paulie... please...
Paulie : What?
Tori : Don't make this difficult!
Paulie : You love me Tori!
Tori : Like a friend!
Paulie : As a lover. Say it! I'm in love with you Paulie!
[yells]
Paulie : You say it or I'll stop this dance right now!
[Everyone looks over at them]
Tori : Paulie please... please...
Paulie : Then say it! Say it!
[Tori looks at her father then looks back at Paulie]
Tori : No! You tell anyone whatever you want.
[Tori walks away and her father follows behind her, leaving Paulie standing alone in the middle of the dance floor. Paulie starts to cry and Ms. Vaughn comes up behind her]
Fay Vaughn : Paulie! Paulie!
[tries to grab Paulie]
Fay Vaughn : Come here... Paulie...
[Paulie grabs her, spins around with her, and then runs from the party. Ms. Bannet walks over to Ms. Vaughn]
Eleanor Bannet : Faye!
[Paulie runs out onto the grass, screaming]
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Tori : I mean, how could I ever say to her what I mean? Even in a letter. I'm, like, "Dear Mommy, I hate you. For multiple reasons. The most recent one being that you went on and on about my teeth at Easter in front of all of your gross friends. You want me to be, like... your perfect junior league girl and grow up to do, like, charity balls, and be the concubine of some banker, like you. But the truth of it is... I'm, like, addicted to you. Like chocolate. I'm like.. I just always wanna be around you. I'm like a stupid little puppy, and you just keep kicking my teeth in with your words. No, your tone...! Sometimes... I don't know. Sometimes I wish you were dead."
Paulie : [smiles] Rage more, Victoria!
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Paulie : [caught out, in bed with Tori] Uh-ohh... S-she gets s-serious... nightmares...
[sheepish smile]
