Enlightened (TV Series)

Someone Else's Life (2011)

Laura Dern: Amy Jellicoe

Quotes 

• Amy Jellicoe : Sometimes, late at night, visited by dread and shame... I lie in bed and think of somebody else's life. I imagine the love that they're getting... and the relief that comes from being really known. The private pleasure they share. The friends they have, and the pressures they don't. Their sense of importance... the satisfactions of their work. I imagine how fulfilled they are... how rich their life is. And in these moments, I feel empty and wanting.

• Amy Jellicoe : Sometimes I think about someone else's life. I imagine all the love they do not have. I see the passion that's missing. The friends they don't know. And the awful pressures that crush them. In those moments I realise how much I have, and how much I have to give.

• Amy Jellicoe : Isn't it wierd that you always wake up as yourself?

  Helen Jellicoe : Amy...

  Amy Jellicoe : Not even one day as anyone else.

  Helen Jellicoe : Here this came for you.

  [She hands Amy a letter. Amy opens it and sees it's a bill for Open Air for $24,000] 

  Helen Jellicoe : Don't you have to go to work?

  Amy Jellicoe : [spills her coffee on herself]  Oh! SUCK A SICK DICK!

  Helen Jellicoe : Amy!

• Amy Jellicoe : Isn't it weird you always wake up as yourself? Never even one day as somebody else...

• Amy Jellicoe : Why did they put me here? To break me. 'Cause I'm mentally ill? I wasn't mentally ill, okay? I mean, I was just fucking stressed out. So, I go away and deal with it. And it's like, they're trying to stress me out all over again.

• Amy Jellicoe : I'm trying to stay positive, you know. There's all this good that I wanna do and all these things I want to do. And then I just can't, you know. This is getting so frustrating. I'm trapped. I feel like I don't have anything.