Julie & Julia (2009)

Chris Messina: Eric Powell

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Quotes 

• Julie Powell : [listening to messages on her answering machine]  Eric, I'm going to be a writer!

  Eric Powell : [correcting her]  You ARE a writer.

• Eric Powell : [about Julia]  Look, there's something wrong with her if she doesn't get what you're doing.

  Julie Powell : There's nothing wrong with her. Nothing. I spent a year with her. She's perfect.

  Eric Powell : The Julia Child in your head is perfect. The Julia Child that doesn't understand what you're doing is not perfect. The one in your head is the one that matters.

• Julie Powell : [about Julia Child]  She saved me.

  Eric Powell : You saved yourself.

  Julie Powell : I was drowning and she pulled me out of the ocean.

  Eric Powell : Don't get carried away.

  [Julie smiles] 

• Eric Powell : Hey.

  Julie Powell : Are you back? Please be back.

  Eric Powell : [smiles]  What's for dinner?

• Julie Powell : She changed everything. Before her, it was frozen food and can openers and marshmallows.

  Eric Powell : Don't knock marshmallows.

  [Julie smiles] 

• Eric Powell : On the bright side, more stew for us.

  Julie Powell : Just for once, could you not look on the bright side?

• Sarah : [voiceover, blogging]  Yesterday, I poached an egg. It seemed like the perfect thing to do on perhaps the second worst workday in recorded history.

  Sarah : Explain to me how you've never eaten an egg in your whole life ?

  Julie Powell : I've had eggs in, like, cakes, never had an "egg" egg. I was a very willful child. It's simmering.

  [voiceover, blogging] 

  Julie Powell : I had this notion, God knows why, that poaching eggs would be simple.

  [Julie breaks an egg] 

  Julie Powell : But I was deeply wrong.

  Sarah : [Sarah read the cookbook]  "Immediately and gently push the while over the yolk with a wooden spoon for two or three seconds." Immediately.

  Julie Powell : [Julia stirs but without success]  Yurk, disgusting!

  Sarah : Oh, maybe the eggs aren't fresh. Julia says the eggs have to be fresh.

  Julie Powell : They are fresh.

  Sarah : Okay, You don't have to bite my head off. I'm just quoting Julia.

  Julie Powell : [voiceover, blogging]  It took three of us, crammed into the kitchen over a pot of simmering water, but, enventually, we nailed it.

  Sarah : Hello

  Julie Powell : Welcome.

  Eric Powell : How cute is that ?