Mistress America (2015)

Lola Kirke: Tracy

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• [Last lines] 

  Tracy : [narrating]  Meadow had made rich fat women less fat, and rich stupid kids less stupid, and lame rich men less lame. And she wanted so badly to be on the other side... to be fat and stupid and lame and rich. But what she couldn't see most of all, more than she couldn't see that she was never going to get the restaurant, was that those people were *nothing* compared to her. They were matches to her bonfire. She was the last cowboy, all romance and failure. The world was changing, and her kind didn't have anywhere to go. Being a beacon of hope for lesser people... is a lonely business.

• 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.

• Tracy : Sometimes I really just think I'm smarter and better than everyone else. Not necessarily with math or science, or whether something is "East" or "West", but pretty much with everything else. And, if I could figure out my look, I'd be the most beautiful woman in the world, too.

  Tony : Sometimes I think I'm a genius. And I wish I could just fast-forward my life to the part where everyone knows it.

• Tracy : Your tragedy is your armor.

  Brooke : Please, somebody defend me against this monster.

• Tracy : I'm so impressed by you and so worried for you at the same time.

• Tracy : It was clear that the thing that Meadow wanted most in the world, the thing that she wanted to define her, to give her a place to put her time and talents, her everything, the restaurant, it was clear that it will never happen. The most surprising thing was that Meadow was actually surprised by it. She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.

• 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

• Tracy : If I could only keep up my look, I'd be the most beautiful woman in the world.

• Tracy : You want other people to do the things you can't so you can blame them.

  Tony : *You used to be so nice.*

  Tracy : I'm the same. I'm just the same in another direction now.

• [First lines] 

  Tracy : [narrating]  She would say things like, "Isn't every story a story of betrayal?" No, that's not true, I thought. But I could never say that. I could only agree with her. It was too much fun to agree with her.

• Tracy : If I'm not in my body, where am I?

• Tracy : I went through a breakup too.

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

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