Bounce (2000)
Gwyneth Paltrow: Abby Janello
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Quotes
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Abby : Bouncing. It's like crashing, except you get to do it over and over again.
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Buddy Amaral : You only took 2 puffs of your last one.
Abby : That's cause I don't really smoke. Yeah, well, last year I started chewing the gum, you know? Because my friend, Donna, she was trying to quit smoking and she found that the gum was soothing to the nerves. So I started chewing it, then I got hooked on the gum and then I got TMJ from the chewing. So this is just to get me off the gum. I'm 10 days off the gum.
Buddy Amaral : Sounds like a good plan. Next week you'll be on heroin.
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Abby : It's not brave if you're not scared.
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Donna : But if you can't forgive him, you can't.
Abby : It's not that I can't forgive him. Do you know how I spent the night after he left? Trying to figure out if I was glad, that he didn't get on that plane. If I say I'm glad he's alive, I'm glad he found me that day, or if I lie, and I say I'm not, either way it feels like I'm doing something wrong to someone I... To both of them, to him and Greg. Being with him is like making a choice.
Donna : You don't have that choice, Abby. You have other choices.
Abby : It just can't be him, that's all.
Donna : Ok, then fine. But whether it's Buddy or someone else a year from now, whoever you choose will be there because Greg is not. That's just how it is.
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Abby : Don't feel sorry for me. I'm happy. I'm widow happy. I'm widow with two kids happy. You grade on a curve, I'm happy.
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Abby : Ok, then nothing with knives, snakes or women that have to go undercover as hookers - - the videos.
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Buddy Amaral : You know, I don't think I've ever bought a woman a grilled cheese, before.
Abby : Oh, yeah. Well, my kids love them, and after a while, you kinda get hooked.
Buddy Amaral : I'm sure they have a gum for that too.
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Abby : You know, I had a baby in the car.
[Buddy looks around the front seat rather shocked]
Abby : Not this car. No I had this Datsun, remember those? And we were driving to the hospital, and I KNEW I was going to have this baby, and Greg would NOT pull over. So I got it in my head that I was not going to have the baby in the front seat - like it wasn't safe or something - and I started to crawl into the back, and I got this contraction, and POW! I broke his nose with my foot! And he couldn't drive I mean the blood was pouring. So I'm driving and crying... and we got to the hospital, and the entire time I was delivering, I kept thinking "his nose, I ruined his nose!" And he had a perfect nose...
