Choose Me (1984)

Geneviève Bujold: Nancy

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• Nancy : Mickey. Mickey. You can't go around asking every woman you kiss to marry you.

  Mickey : Why not?

  Nancy : Why not...

  Mickey : I only kiss women I'd marry.

• Nancy : I've never loved anyone. I don't think I can.

• [first lines] 

  Announcer : Stay by your phone, Doctor Nancy Love will be up on KCMY talk radio with The Love Line.

  Nancy : I recommend that you examine the deeper feelings you have for your wife, Tom.

• Nancy : Well, with the dilemma you're in, Jane, we could discuss sexual attitudes, early childhood, but the truth is, when you make changes, you sometimes have to endure pain.

  Eve : Is that what you do with your pain?

• [They are discussing Nancy herself, but Mickey does not know this] 

  Nancy : Her? Extremely smart. She helps a great deal of people.

  Mickey : Good.

  Nancy : And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.

  Mickey : Rough.

  Nancy : Some people worship her. But can you imagine how hard that must be to live with? Knowing than anything you ever say to anyone will count heavily, be acted upon whether you're right or wrong, I mean there's a tremendous responsibility in that, don't you think? She'd have to - she'd have to live a - a life of secrecy to avoid that kind of pressure, and even then she'd have to be careful of listening to herself, you know? And she must - wonder about - her own life experiences, she must have - difficulty touching life because she gives so much of herself to others, she spends - so much of her time absorbing others.

  Mickey : People really listen to that shit?

  Nancy : Oh yes, they do, believe me. I've heard her show before.

• Nancy : Maybe it's not just, uh, one man, Rita, maybe it's a feeling you have for all men. Sex, like everything else, is largely a mystery, I mean, there's no such thing as normal sex, normal sex is a matter of statistics. What may be normal for the vast majority is no criterion of behavior for the exceptional person.

  Pearl Antoine : But I am exceptional.

  Nancy : [becoming gradually more agitated]  Throughout history, individuals of the first rank would never have produced had they not been immersed in sex and spontaneous sexual behavior. I mean that uncontrollable impulse that shakes you to your very foundation, that makes your - nerves ends tickle and that makes your head spin and makes you feel like, like jelly, you may think it's wine, Rita, but it's not, it's blood. And there's nothing wrong with that feeling. We all need to get it, we all need it, there's nothing wrong with IT.

  Pearl Antoine : But I know about all that.

  Announcer : Nancy, stand by for a station break.

  Nancy : I'm sorry, Rita, we're going for, uh, station identification.

• Nancy : From Mickey, I learned that perhaps when a man enters your life through your sex, it might just be as good a way as any. isn't that marvelous? And all along I'm thinking it's the wine! And Eve, seeing how - how you admit that you don't really know him all that well, well I'm - I'm wondering - if we might share him?

  Eve : Are you telling me that Mickey found out where I lived, and that he came here, and that you were home, and that you fucked him?

  Nancy : [nods] 

  Eve : [slaps Nancy] 

  Nancy : He said you barely knew each other, Eve, you just said that yourself.