The White Lotus (TV Series)

Ciao (2022)

Aubrey Plaza: Harper Spiller

Quotes 

• Ethan Spiller : I mean, yeah, they kind of live in a bubble, but... they're fun, right?

  Harper Spiller : They don't vote, Ethan.

  Ethan Spiller : I know. What the fuck? They don't read the news.

  Harper Spiller : They don't read. It's like, what do they even talk about? Is that what happens when you're rich for too long, your brain just atrophies?

• Ethan Spiller : It's good to have, you know, diverse friends, I guess.

  Harper Spiller : Yeah, I think we're their diverse friends. Their White-passing diverse friends.

• Harper Spiller : Also, they're so touchy-feely. Right? Like, do you notice that? It feels performative. Like, who does that?

  Ethan Spiller : Happily married couples?

  Harper Spiller : Couples that have been married for five years? No way. It feels fake.

• Cameron Sullivan : Why? Why can't you sleep?

  Daphne Sullivan : Just, like work stuff?

  Harper Spiller : Yeah, but also just... I don't know, just everything that's going on... in the world.

  Daphne Sullivan : What do you mean? What's going on?

  Harper Spiller : Oh, I don't know. Just, like, the end of the world.

  Daphne Sullivan : Oh. No, Harper!

  Cameron Sullivan : Oh, come on!

  Daphne Sullivan : The world's not ending, it's not that bad. Honestly, Cam and I don't even watch the news anymore.

  Cameron Sullivan : Yeah.

  Ethan Spiller : You don't follow the news?

  Daphne Sullivan : No.

  Ethan Spiller : What?

  Cameron Sullivan : Like, I'm just so over the whole news cycle, you know? It's... it's like, gimme a break.

  Daphne Sullivan : They're just trying to freak everybody out.

  Cameron Sullivan : Yeah. They're just polarizing society by making us glued to their apocalyptic soap opera, you know? It's like...

  Daphne Sullivan : Yeah. And even if it was as bad as they say it is, I mean what can you really do, you know?

  Cameron Sullivan : Right.

  Daphne Sullivan : We vote, we donate money. You can't obsess.

• Harper Spiller : Mm. Okay, so you guys don't watch the news. Um... What do you do, like, all day?

  Daphne Sullivan : Oh. Well, I mean, I'm... I'm home with the kids. I mean, mostly. Yep.

  Harper Spiller : Oh, right. Of course. Right.

  Daphne Sullivan : We do a lot of Dateline. I love it. Husbands murdering their wives. Happens a lot on vacation. Scuba diving. He'll just unplug her oxygen while she's underwater. Happens more than you think.

  Cameron Sullivan : Why... why are you looking at me?

  Harper Spiller : Why are we all looking at you?

  Cameron Sullivan : Yeah.

  Daphne Sullivan : Cameron really likes to watch macho reality TV. The guys are really ugly. Oh, my God. That sounds so bad, but they are.

  Cameron Sullivan : Honey, the people on Dateline aren't exactly attractive either.

  Daphne Sullivan : At least they're murdering each other.

• Ethan Spiller : So much content now. It's like there's billions of shows, everyone's trying to keep up. It's kinda suffocating, honestly. Yeah.

  Harper Spiller : Too much. It's too much. It's like we're all entertaining each other while the world burns, right?

  Ethan Spiller : We're all just zombies, you know, like...

  Harper Spiller : Hmm.

  Daphne Sullivan : I love a binge.

• Ethan Spiller : Look, Cameron is the kinda guy who, if you can put up with him for five minutes, you can put up with him forever. He is consistent.

  Harper Spiller : A consistent douche?

  Ethan Spiller : Yeah. He's crazy, it's funny.

  Harper Spiller : Was he like that in college?

  Ethan Spiller : Way worse.

  Harper Spiller : Why were you even friends with him?

  Ethan Spiller : We weren't friends, we were roommates. And then, you know how it is. You kind of become friends, and now we're friends.

• Daphne Sullivan : So, you do employment law. So interesting.

  Harper Spiller : Mm-hmm.

  Daphne Sullivan : What is that exactly?

  Harper Spiller : Um, we, you know, we take on clients that are suing their employers for discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, stuff like that.

  Daphne Sullivan : Amazing.

  Harper Spiller : What? What is that face?

  Cameron Sullivan : No, no, no. Nothing. Just, um... We've been dealing with a bunch of bogus claims lately. I mean, everyone has.

  Harper Spiller : Ah! Hmm.

  Cameron Sullivan : I mean, even when they have zero merit and they get thrown out in summary judgment, you still have to go through all the depos and the internal investigations. It's a total time suck. Not to mention a huge waste of money. I mean... God.

  Harper Spiller : Mm. Well, they're not all bogus.