Mistress America (2015)

Greta Gerwig: Brooke

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• Brooke : I think I'm sick, and I don't know if my ailment has a name. It's just me sitting and staring at the internet or the television for long periods of time, interspersed by trying to not do that and then lying about what I've been doing. And then I'll get so excited about something that the excitement overwhelms me and I can't sleep or do anything and I just am in love with everything but can't figure out how to make myself work in the world.

  Tracy : I think I have that too.

• Brooke : I know I'm funny. I know everything about myself. That's why I can't do therapy.

• Brooke : You can't *really* know what it is to *want* things until you're *at least* 30. And then with each passing year, it gets bigger... because the *want* is more, and the *possibility* is less. Like how each passing year of your life seems faster because it's a smaller portion of your total life. Like that. But in reverse. Everything becomes pure want.

• Brooke : There's no adultery when you're eighteen. You should all be touching each other all the time.

• Brooke : You are much more of an asshole than you initially appear.

• Brooke : I'll probably end up doing something depressing, but young.

• Brooke : I don't give a shit, because I am not a friend of Tennessee Williams.

• Tracy : Your tragedy is your armor.

  Brooke : Please, somebody defend me against this monster.

• Brooke : It's weird that someone that studies rocks is really into Jesus.

• Brooke : I thought I might actually go to college. I'm not an amputee.

• Brooke : I want the whole deal. I want the dead-on-my-feet-wake-up-and-I'm-40. I've spent my whole life chasing after things and knocking at doors... and I'm tired of running towards people. I want to be the place that people come to. I want to make a home for all the knockers and runners. I'm good at that. I'm happy with that. I keep the hearth. That's a word, right? Hearth?

• Brooke : Stop calling her these old-timey names.

• Brooke : You think that I'm a running carcass, that I'm doomed to failure?

• Brooke : I never went to college. I'm an autodidact. Do you know what that means?

  Tracy : Yes

  Brooke : That word is one of the things that I self-taught myself.

• Brooke : What's going on at college?

  Tracy : Everyone's really excited about the frozen yogurt machine in the student center.

  Brooke : I watched my mother die.

  Tracy : What?

  Brooke : I was with my mother while she died.

  Tracy : I don't know any dead people.

  Brooke : That's cool about the frozen yogurt machine. Everyone I love dies.

  Brooke , Tracy : Laughter

• Brooke : Sometimes I look like I have fat arms.

  Dylan : I like fat arms.

• Brooke : Of course it's possible to hurt me. I'm the most sensitive person.

• Dylan : Whatever you're doing, it's working.

  Brooke : No, it isn't.

• Brooke : I don't give a shit because I'm not a friend of Tennessee Williams!

• Brooke : New York isn't the New York I used to know. There's too much construction.

• Brooke : I like to drink.

• Dylan : If you started the restaurant, you would be back here in a year asking for *five* times this.

  Brooke : Not if it was successful.

  Dylan : What are the odds?

• Brooke : I just wasn't brought up that way.

• Brooke : That's cool about the frozen yogurt machine. Everyone I know dies.

• Brooke : Mistress America. Doesn't that sound like America's heroine?

  Tracy : Kind of sounds like America's girl on the side.