Love the Hard Way (2001)

Adrien Brody: Jack Grace

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• Jack : What kind of movies do you prefer, the ones with the sad endings or the happy ones?

  Claire : The sad ones definitely. I like movies that make me cry.

  Jack : Then you're with the right guy.

• Jack : Did you read it?

  Claire : Yeah, I did.

  Jack : And?

  Claire : I don't blame you you know, I never did.

  Jack : [swallows] 

  Claire : And going to the dark side of the moon wasn't the worst thing.

  Jack : What was?

  Claire : Going alone.

• Jack : You're finished with me right?

  Claire : [nods no] 

  Jack : Not the man you'd hoped I'd be?

  Claire : [nods yes] 

  Jack : It's better this way, ok? Now stop crying, I don't deserve your tears.

  Claire : You've been lying to me from the start haven't you?

  Jack : Look I just wanted to fuck you, that's all it was.

  Claire : When you said you loved me was that a lie too? Nothing was true. Just lies, just fucking lies.

  Jack : Look I don't love anyone Claire, and you're hurt cause the love story that you made up for yourself fell apart, and it's all in your mind.

  Claire : I'm dead.

  Jack : Don't be so dramatic.

• Jack : I thought I was disconnected from everything, for a long time I'd been leading an unstable, risky life. I'd hung out with all sorts of people, nothing could shock me anymore. I was not impressed by the unexpected, I'd always been able to handle it. That night however, when I saw Claire again, I just fell to pieces. I thought I'd managed to forget her, I'd overcome the pain and remorse which made me want to see her again.

• Jack : Are you expecting an eclipse?

• Jack : Same shit, different day.

  Claire : No it's not. You don't really think it's the same sun that rises every morning do you? There are 365 suns, a different one for each day.

  Jack : What happens on a leap year? You stay in bed all day?

  Claire : [smiles]  Staying in bed doesn't hurt... much.

• Jack : The girl is dead.

• Jack : Will you be here when I get back?

  Claire : Do you want me to be?

  Jack : Yes.

• Jack : She looks at him again, then with a painful smile she switches off the light and leaves. The room is dark again. Claire is gone. The following day I asked her to wait for me, I never saw her again; I was arrested a few moments later. No doubt believing it was all another lie, she'd slit her wrists with a knife. As Charlie would say, the Gods are on my side; the police found her, saving her life just in time.

• Jack : What are we gonna do? You're the smart one, help me out.

  Claire : You do what all good writers do, you write a new book.

• Jack : I've slept with more than 200 women.

  Claire : [Laughs]  200? Well Will Chamberlin said he slept with 20,000, so that kinda makes you look like a punk.

  Jack : You know something...You really have a dumb laugh.

  Claire : Hey listen, just cause I'm talking to you doesn't mean that I'm on the market. I have a boyfriend.

  Jack : Sure you do, He's probably one of those piss ant preppy motherfu**ers who sh**s his pants every time Daddy's check is a day late.

  Claire : He loves me.

  Jack : Oh he loves you...

  Claire : I don't think that's anything you know about.

  Jack : Loves just a 4 letter word...

• Claire : You can't smoke in here.

  Jack : Oh No?

  [Pulls an ashtray out of his pocket and sets it on the table] 

  Jack : Now I can.

• Claire : So what do you like? Besides smoking?

  Jack : What do I like? Boxer who can hook off the jab. Oysters, Rockafeller. Rugrats. Anything that gives me a kick.

  Claire : And you make a living out of that?

  Jack : Uh huh, Not bad. Some nights I go out with Charlie and I rip off forigen business men. You should turn me into the police, you'd be doing the world a favor.

  Claire : Its too late. Someone already did. I'm an undercover agent for the RICO squad.