Desperate Housewives (TV Series)
Love Is in the Air (2005)
Marcia Cross: Bree Van De Kamp
Quotes
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[watching an S&M video demonstration with Rex]
Rex : Well?
Bree Van De Kamp : What the hell did your mother do to you?
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[Bree has agreed to try "dominating" Rex]
Rex : If things do get too rough, we'll have a control word. If one of us says it, the other backs off immediately.
Bree : Okay. So what's our control word?
Rex : Well, lately I've been using "Philadelphia". What's wrong?
Bree : Well, it's just that my Aunt Fern lives in Philadelphia, and I don't want to be thinking about her while I'm spanking you with a leather strap.
Rex : Okay. Fine. You pick a control word.
Bree : Um, how about "Boise"?
Rex : "Boise"?
Bree : What's the matter with "Boise"?
Rex : We're going to be doing psychological role playing here, Bree, and a funny word like "Boise" would ruin the mood. We need something that sounds serious.
Bree : Hmm.
[sombre tone]
Bree : How about "Palestine"?
Rex : "Boise" will be just fine.
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Rex : I want you to say you'll try it, just once.
Bree Van De Kamp : Try what? Hurting you? You actually want me to hurt you?
Rex : So I can feel pleasure, yes!
Bree Van De Kamp : Fine.
[slaps Rex across the face]
Bree Van De Kamp : So, was it good for you too?
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Bree Van De Kamp : Rex and I are hosting a dinner party for 10 next week. We're using our best china and serving duck.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : So, you and Rex are a couple again?
Bree Van De Kamp : Yes. You know, that's one of the things I hated most about our separation, not being able to throw dinner parties. There is just something so civilized and elegant about them, don't you think?
Dr. Albert Goldfine : I take it you've resolved your feelings about his infidelity?
Bree Van De Kamp : Let's just say I've put them in an imaginary box and don't plan on looking at them for a while.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Do you think that's the healthiest way to achieve a reconciliation?
Bree Van De Kamp : Well, it won't be easy at first. There will be a lot of forced smiles and perfunctory lovemaking, but after a few decades whiz by, I'm sure I'll find a way to forgive him.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Well, as long as you have a plan.
[smirks]
Bree Van De Kamp : [Looking pensive] I do want to forgive him Dr. Goldfine but,
[pauses]
Bree Van De Kamp : there is still something he's not telling me.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Really?
Bree Van De Kamp : I think it has something to do with why he had the affair.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Have you confronted him?
Bree Van De Kamp : Once... and you should have seen the look in his eyes. He was terrified that I'd figure it out.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : [looks away]
Bree Van De Kamp : You know what it is, don't you?
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Bree, I can't discuss other patients.
Bree Van De Kamp : I realize that. This thing that he is hiding, is it bad?
Dr. Albert Goldfine : [Looks away]
Bree Van De Kamp : OH! OK, um,
[nervous laugh]
Bree Van De Kamp : maybe it's better that I don't know.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : Bree, how does the reconciliation have a chance if the two of you can't be honest about the innermost parts of your lives?
Bree Van De Kamp : We're, um, WASPs Dr. Goldfine. Not acknowledging the elephant in the room is what we do best.
Dr. Albert Goldfine : You'd settle for that? A life filled with repression and denial?
Bree Van De Kamp : And the dinner parties. Don't forget the dinner parties.