Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Joaquin Phoenix: Beau Wassermann
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Quotes
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Beau Wassermann : I really thought I was gonna die, my whole life.
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[first lines]
Beau Wassermann : I accidentally drank mouthwash Friday night. You can't get stomach cancer that way?
Therapist : Not from one time.
Beau Wassermann : I drank a mouthful a couple of weeks ago too.
Therapist : I'm sure it's fine.
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Beau Wassermann : Excuse me, sir, m-my bag and my key w-were just here...
Superintendent : [grinning] You're fucked, pal.
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Beau Wassermann : [as Toni begins drinking paint] No! Please, Toni no! Stop, please! You're gonna be sick! Stop! Stop!
Toni : [with a mouth full of paint] Fuck you!
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[last lines]
Beau Wassermann : Mommy, please! Please, help me, please! Please, oh God, please! Help! Help me! Somebody help me, please! Help! Help! Help me, please! Help, please! Please, I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I don't wanna...
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[Beau has what appears to be an ankle monitor strapped around his foot]
Beau Wassermann : What is this?
Roger : That's my little assistant health monitor.
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Mona Wassermann : I'm sure you'll do the Right Thing.
Beau Wassermann : What is the Right Thing?
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Cop : Freeze!
Beau Wassermann : I'm Frozen!
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Mona Wassermann : Do you know what I had to go through to bring you into this World?
Beau Wassermann : I'll make it up to you!
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Beau Wassermann : [Pukes on a Laptop]
Toni : LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK?
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Beau Wassermann : What did I do?
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Mona Wassermann : I couldn't restrain her from volunteering.
Beau Wassermann : For how much?
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Therapist : Do you ever wish she was dead?
Beau Wassermann : God, no!
Therapist : It wouldn't be so crazy if you did. Conflicting feelings can coexist. This is a space to explore them.
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Dr. Cohen : When his horrific friends broke into his Mother's room and examined and then stole her undergarments!
Beau Wassermann : They pressured me!
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Beau Wassermann : [Eats a frozen meal from a company his mother owns]
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Mona Wassermann : [over the phone] Are you at the airport?
Beau Wassermann : I'm on my way, I just -- it's not safe, is it? What do you think I should do?
Mona Wassermann : [over the phone] I'm sure you'll do the right thing, sweetheart.
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Grace : There was a stabbing... you were assaulted.
Beau Wassermann : What?
[cut to a brief scene of Beau getting viciously stabbed in the stomach and multiple times in the hand]
Beau Wassermann : What?
Grace : [softly and sympathetically] I know!
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Beau Wassermann : [Staggering away from his Mother's house, in the dead of night, with his face fixed in a crazed rictus. As well he might]
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Beau Wassermann : I'm visiting my mother tomorrow.
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Beau Wassermann : Can you die from this?
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Beau Wassermann : Her head is gone!
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Beau Wassermann : She worked for you?
Mona Wassermann : I seriously doubt that, but if you're right you can tell her she's fired.
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Beau Wassermann : [Walks 500 miles, then walks 500 more]
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Beau Wassermann : [Floating in Cold, Dark Empty Space]
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Beau Wassermann : I even have it in writing.
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Beau Wassermann : Hey, wait a minute! Why would you say that?
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Beau Wassermann : Let's fix this!
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Mona Wassermann : Do you have a concussion, do you know where you are?
Beau Wassermann : I'm in my house.
Mona Wassermann : Actually it's my house. But my house is your house.
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Beau Wassermann : Wooooohh! Wooooohh! Wooooohh!
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Beau Wassermann : Oh my God!
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Beau Wassermann : I waited for you.
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Beau Wassermann : [Electrocuted by a Health Monitor, Remotely]
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Beau Wassermann : No, no, no I know the Truth, now! My Father's Alive, I met him in the woods!
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Beau Wassermann : I tried to stop her!
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Beau Wassermann : What does this mean?
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Beau Wassermann : [a much-tattooed man is unconscious] Sir?
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Beau Wassermann : How could you do this to me?
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Beau Wassermann : What would be right for you?
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Beau Wassermann : I was a Coward.
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Beau Wassermann : I knew you weren't dead, I saw the birthmark.
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Beau Wassermann : What do I do? What do I do?
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Beau Wassermann : I cried for hours when I got the news!
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Beau Wassermann : Am I dead?
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Beau Wassermann : Are you him?
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Beau Wassermann : Why did you Lie to me?