Robert Downey Jr.: Lionel Sweeney
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Quotes
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Lionel Sweeney : [holding an inflatable raft] I blew this up for you.
Diane Arbus : Why did you want me to shave you? Hmm? Why?
Lionel Sweeney : So I could swim out further.
Diane Arbus : Swim out?
Lionel Sweeney : Yes.
Diane Arbus : What are you saying?
Lionel Sweeney : [he struggles for words] That I want you with me.
Diane Arbus : What?
Lionel Sweeney : Diane.
Diane Arbus : What are you talking about? You want me to watch you die?
Lionel Sweeney : I want you with me, that's all.
Diane Arbus : But is this what you did? Made me fall in love with you to watch you...
Lionel Sweeney : I don't see it that way at all. I love you.
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Lionel Sweeney : You saw me the night I moved in, remember?
Diane Arbus : Yes.
Lionel Sweeney : I definitely saw you. You trying to seduce me, Diane?
Diane Arbus : No, no.
Lionel Sweeney : No?
Diane Arbus : God, no.
Lionel Sweeney : Is that why you came up here in the middle of the night?
Diane Arbus : I, um... Well, I would like to, uh, I'd like to take a portrait of you and your... your wife.
Lionel Sweeney : I don't have a wife.
Diane Arbus : Well then, I would like to take a portrait of you, just you.
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Diane Arbus : Where is your favourite place to be?
Lionel Sweeney : The ocean.
Diane Arbus : Then why don't we go there?
Lionel Sweeney : We will.
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Diane Arbus : Why did you throw down the key?
Lionel Sweeney : You looked like you needed to come up to my place.
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Diane Arbus : I want to take a portrait of you and your wife.
Lionel Sweeney : I don't have a wife.
Diane Arbus : Then I want to take a portrait of you. Just you.
Lionel Sweeney : Why do you want to take a portrait of someone you've never seen, Diane?
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Diane Arbus : What is it?
Lionel Sweeney : Well, every month or so I'm able to breathe about five percent less. My lungs are disintegrating. It's getting harder and harder for me to breathe... deeply. In a matter of months, I'll drown without even swimming, because there'll be nothing left... of my lungs.
Diane Arbus : You're not dying.
Lionel Sweeney : Yes, I am.
Diane Arbus : No, you're not.
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Diane Arbus : Why isn't she your girlfriend?
Lionel Sweeney : She doesn't touch me.
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Lionel Sweeney : [to Diane] Are you trying to seduce me?
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Lionel Sweeney : Cookie?
