Dream Lover (1993)

James Spader: Ray

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• Ray : [showing photos]  Do you know her?

  Buddy : Sissy. Hope she's nothin' to you.

  Ray : She's my wife.

  Buddy : Figures. Did she run off and leave you?

  Ray : No.

  Buddy : Well, give it time.

  Ray : Is that what she did to you?

  Buddy : She did things to me I can't even pronounce.

• Ray : Can I come up, I mean just for five minutes?

  Lena : It wouldn't take five minutes.

• Ray : [to his lawyer]  The law? Fuck the law.

• Ray : What's the problem?

  Lena : I like you, that's the problem... I really like you.

• Lena : Look, just cause I'm halfway pretty guys look in my eyes and think they know me. Like I'm their fantasy. I'm just a regular screwed-up person. So when you say I'm beautiful it's like you're not seeing me at all.

  Ray : Yes I am.

  Lena : No.

  Ray : "Only God, my dear, can love you for yourself alone and not your yellow hair" - Yeats.

  Lena : [smiles] 

• Ray : You threw away the bill.

  Lena : What bill?

  Ray : HOTEL CHANTECLER EVERY FUCKING WEDNESDAY!

• Ray : What if I fly into a *rage* and attack you?

  Lena : You're sedated.

  Ray : I am? I don't *feel* sedated.

  Lena : That's because you're crazy.

• Norman : [Talking to Ray about a woman he has invited to a party to meet Ray]  Tits. Did someone say tits? Like... pears...

  Ray : [Frustrated]  Huh.

  Norman : ...huh? And not the hard green ones either, the juicy Comice, you get in the box from Oregon, Harry & David.

• Ray : As he puts his hands around her neck: "There's a flaw in your logic."

• Lena : Is this the end?

  Ray : I can't keep opening my heart to you and getting...

  Lena : Isn't that what love is? I don't mean passion. Love. Isn't it an act of faith, loving someone despite having to put up with things which are intolerable. Opening your heart... again and again.

• Ray : No matter who you were, and no matter who you are, and no matter who you will be, I'm going to love you.