The Best offer (2013) quotes
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore.
Cast
Geoffrey Rush.
Donald Sutherland.
Sylvia Hoeks.
A lonely art expert working for a mysterious and reclusive heiress finds not only her art worth examining.
I wouldn’t be so sure if I were you. Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they are a forgery.
– Billy Whistler
Forgery?
– Virgil Oldman
Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate… illness, recovery. Even love.
– Billy Whistler
What’s it like living with a woman?
– Virgil Oldman
Like taking part in an auction sale. You never know if yours will be the best offer.
– Lambert
It’s a fake.
– Virgil Oldman
How is that possible? It’s beautiful!
– First daughter
I didn’t say it was ugly, I said it wasn’t authentic.
– Virgil Oldman
In an old article of yours I found on the internet, you said: There’s something authentic in every forgery. What did you mean?
– Claire
When simulating another’s work the forger can’t resist the temptation to put in something of himself. Often it’s just a trifle, a detail of no interest. One unsuspected stroke, by which the forger inevitably ends up betraying himself, and revealing his own utterly authentic sensibilities.
– Virgil Oldman
I’m not in the habit of speaking to people very much.
– Claire
Believe me, that’s considerable stroke of good fortune. Talking to people is extremely perilous. However, it was you who made the call, so you’re running the risk.
– Virgil Oldman
Are you on your own, sir?
– Waiter
No, I’m waiting for someone.
– Virgil Oldman
Why did you never marry, never have kids?
– Robert
The regard I have for women is equal to the fear I’ve always had of them. And to my failure to understand them.
– Virgil Oldman
You know, gearboxes are like people. If they’ve been together long enough, eventually, they take on each other’s forms.
– Robert