Frances Ha (2012)

Greta Gerwig: Frances

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• Frances : It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.

• Frances : I'm so embarrassed. I'm not a real person yet.

• Andy : So what do you do?

  Frances : Eh... It's kinda hard to explain.

  Andy : Because what you do is complicated?

  Frances : Eh... Because I don't really do it.

• Frances : I like things that look like mistakes.

• Frances : Sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it.

• Frances : I'm too tall to marry.

• Frances : Don't treat me like a three-hour brunch friend!

• Benji : Are you still undateable?

  Frances : Oh yes, very undateable.

• Frances : I'm not messy, I'm busy.

• Frances : I have trouble leaving places.

• Frances : I'm poor.

  Benji : That's actually offensive to poor people.

• Frances : Do I look old to you?

  Benji : No. Yes.

  Frances : How old?

  Benji : Older than I am.

  Frances : Older than 27?

  Benji : No. 27 is old, though.

• Lev Shapiro : Just because you bought dinner doesn't mean I'm gonna sleep with you.

  Frances : I'm not trying to sleep with you.

  Lev Shapiro : No, I was pretending to be a liberated woman.

• Benji : Let's do something fun. We could go to a movie.

  Frances : Movies are so expensive now.

  Benji : Yeah, but you're at the movies.

• Frances : I love you Sophie, even if you love your phone that has e-mail more than you love me.

  Sophie : My phone that has e-mail doesn't leave a casserole dish in the sink for three days.

• Frances : [at a French cinema]  Hello. When did "Puss in Boots" start?

• Frances : But your blog looks so happy.

  Sophie : I don't think my *mom* would read it if it were about depression.

  Frances : My mom would.

  [Sophie chuckles] 

• Benji : Who were you fucking last week, Frances?

  Frances : I make love

  Benji : Frances: undateable

• Frances : I have so much to do. I think I'll probably read Proust... Because sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to when you're supposed to do it.

  Caroline : Proust is pretty heavy.

  Frances : Yeah, but it's worth it, I hear.

  Caroline : No, I meant the book. Carrying it on the plane.

  Frances : I should probably learn French first... and then read it in French.

• Frances : I put my ring on my thumb and I'm having trouble getting it off.

  Sophie : Hold your hand above your head. I'll drain the blood out.

  Frances : I look like I'm asking a *question*.

• Frances : Tell me the story of us.

  Sophie : Again? All right, Frances. We are gonna take over the world.

  Frances : You'll be this awesomely bitchy publishing mogul.

  Sophie : And you'll be this famous modern dancer... and I'll publish a really expensive book about you.

  Frances : That d-bags we make fun of will put on their coffee tables.

  Sophie : And we'll co-own a vacation apartment in Paris.

  Frances : And we'll have lovers.

  Sophie : And no children.

  Frances : And we'll speak at college graduations.

  Sophie : And honorary degrees.

  Frances : So many honorary degrees.

• Frances : I'm going to use this credit card I got in the mail.

  Sophie : That's not smart. That's what they want, they want to keep you in debt.

  Frances : I know that. I see documentaries.

• Frances : We are like a lesbian couple that doesn't have sex anymore.

• Nessa : Aren't you a lot older than Sophie?

  Frances : No, we went to college together.

  Nessa : Hm, you seem older.

  Frances : I'm a couple months older.

  Nessa : Like, a lot older. But less, like, grown up. It's weird.