Beau Is Afraid (2023)

Joaquin Phoenix: Beau Wassermann

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Quotes 

• Beau Wassermann : I really thought I was gonna die, my whole life.

• [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.

• Beau Wassermann : Excuse me, sir, m-my bag and my key w-were just here...

  Superintendent : [grinning]  You're fucked, pal.

• 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!

• [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...

• [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.

• Mona Wassermann : I'm sure you'll do the Right Thing.

  Beau Wassermann : What is the Right Thing?

• Cop : Freeze!

  Beau Wassermann : I'm Frozen!

• Toni : Don't call me Toni!

  Beau Wassermann : But that's your name!

  Toni : Yeah, but THAT'S my name!

• 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!

• Beau Wassermann : [Pukes on a Laptop] 

  Toni : LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK?

• Beau Wassermann : What did I do?

• Mona Wassermann : I couldn't restrain her from volunteering.

  Beau Wassermann : For how much?

• 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.

• Dr. Cohen : When his horrific friends broke into his Mother's room and examined and then stole her undergarments!

  Beau Wassermann : They pressured me!

• Beau Wassermann : [Eats a frozen meal from a company his mother owns] 

• 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.

• 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!

• 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] 

• Beau Wassermann : I'm visiting my mother tomorrow.

• Beau Wassermann : Can you die from this?

• Beau Wassermann : Her head is gone!

• Beau Wassermann : She worked for you?

  Mona Wassermann : I seriously doubt that, but if you're right you can tell her she's fired.

• Beau Wassermann : [Walks 500 miles, then walks 500 more] 

• Beau Wassermann : [Floating in Cold, Dark Empty Space] 

• Beau Wassermann : I even have it in writing.

• Beau Wassermann : Hey, wait a minute! Why would you say that?

• Beau Wassermann : Let's fix this!

• 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.

• Beau Wassermann : Wooooohh! Wooooohh! Wooooohh!

• Beau Wassermann : Oh my God!

• Beau Wassermann : I waited for you.

• Beau Wassermann : [Electrocuted by a Health Monitor, Remotely] 

• Beau Wassermann : No, no, no I know the Truth, now! My Father's Alive, I met him in the woods!

• Beau Wassermann : I tried to stop her!

• Beau Wassermann : What does this mean?

• Beau Wassermann : [a much-tattooed man is unconscious]  Sir?

• Beau Wassermann : How could you do this to me?

• Beau Wassermann : What would be right for you?

• Beau Wassermann : I was a Coward.

• Beau Wassermann : I knew you weren't dead, I saw the birthmark.

• Beau Wassermann : What do I do? What do I do?

• Beau Wassermann : I cried for hours when I got the news!

• Beau Wassermann : Am I dead?

• Beau Wassermann : Are you him?

• Beau Wassermann : Why did you Lie to me?