Jill Eikenberry: Ann Kelsey

Quotes 

• Stuart Markowitz : It's still brooding. Why you still brooding?

  Ann Kelsey : I'm not brooding.

  Stuart Markowitz : Yeah, you are. Ever since I said whatever was I said about you dress, you're beautiful on brew.

  [Stuart comforts Ann sitting alone] 

  Ann Kelsey : It was a painful thing to hear, Stuart.

  Stuart Markowitz : Mine. You know they still have desire for you, don't you?

  Ann Kelsey : I guess I don't know it as much as I used to know it.

  Stuart Markowitz : Yeah, well, there's a lot of things that aren't there used to be, huh?

  [Stuart take a seat and talk with Ann for a minute] 

  Ann Kelsey : Like what else?

  Stuart Markowitz : Like one's desire doesn't come to the fore as often as I used to. We work hard all day. You got the kid at home. Retired. Our stamina has to what it used to be.

  [Ann turned to her husband] 

  Ann Kelsey : I don't wanna require stamina, Stuart. I don't want our marriage to be something that we endure.

  Stuart Markowitz : Why do you read these vast gloomy passages and everything I say? There will be periods of time when the fire is out. Yes. But that doesn't mean I don't love you. It doesn't mean I don't desire you. It probably does mean that I'm tired.

  Ann Kelsey : Fine.

  Stuart Markowitz : And now she says fine. And now she is not gonna let up on me. Because I haven't demonstrated the requisite amount of sympathy, or passion, or whatever the hell it is, I'm suppose to demonstrate.

  [Stuart gets up and walk] 

  Stuart Markowitz : I'll tell you something , Honey, demonstrations are passion, you're suppose to arise spontaneously. And it doesn't help matters that I live in fear offending you all the time. That I think you're gonna jump down my throat. Every time I might make an inappropriate remark. Think about that. And think about what you might have done. If the fire's out, to put it out.

  [Stuart walks away. And Ann looks shock]