Before Midnight (2013) quotes
Director
Richard Linklater.
Cast
Ethan Hawke.
Julie Delpy.
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick.
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
I fucked up my whole life because of the way you sing.
– Jesse
If you want love, then this is it. This is real life. It’s not perfect but it’s real.
– Jesse
Well, it must have been one hell of a night we’re about to have.
– Celine
Now I know why Sylvia Plath put her head in a toaster!
– Celine
It was an oven.
– Jesse
Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through.
– Natalia
You are the fucking mayor of Crazytown, do you know that? You are!
– Jesse
You’re just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I’m just trying to make things better. I tell you that I love you unconditionally, I tell you that you’re beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you’re 80. I try to make you laugh.
– Jesse
Ok.
– Celine
All right, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I’m just some dog who’s gonna keep coming back, then you’re wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It’s not perfect, but it’s real. And if you can’t see it, then you’re blind, all right, and I give up.
– Jesse
…we don’t have to spend our lives comparing ourselves to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Tolstoy…
– Celine
What about Joan of Arc, right, she was a teenager and she saved France, so…
– Jesse
Who wants to be Joan of Arc? Forget France, she was burnt at the stake and a virgin, okay. Nothing I aspired to. What a great achievement.
– Celine
I am giving you my whole life ok? I got nothing larger to give, I’m not giving it to anybody else. If you’re looking for permission to disqualify me, I’m not gonna give it to you. Ok? I love you. And I’m not in conflict about it. Okay? But if what you want is like a laundry list of all the things that piss me off, I can give it to you.
– Jesse
Yeah, I want to hear.
– Celine
Okay well, number 1, you’re fucking nuts! You are. Good luck! Find somebody else to put up with your shit for more than like 6 months okay? But I, accept the whole package, the crazy and the brilliant. I know you’re not gonna change and I don’t want you to. It’s called accepting you for being you.
– Jesse
Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through.
– Nina
You know what? The only time I get to think now is when I take a shit at the office. I’m starting to associate thoughts with the smell of shit.
– Celine
Ha ha. That is a good line. I gonna use that in a book some day.
– Jesse
I’m sure you will. And that’ll be the best line in the book.
– Celine
Still there. Still there. Still there. Gone.
– Celine
I feel close to you.
– Celine
Yeah?
– Jesse
But sometimes, I don’t know? I feel like you’re breathing helium and I’m breathing oxygen.
– Celine
What makes you say that?
– Jesse
One of the perks of being over 35 is that you don’t get raped as much.
– Celine