Paper Man (2009)
Emma Stone: Abby
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Quotes
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Richard Dunn : I love you.
Abby : What?
Richard Dunn : Not in any way that's in... Uh, inappropriate or anything, nothing that's not... You know... Decent or... It's just if I examine my, if I look in my... heart, I find that, I think that it's... there's love there. For you. Yeah... I love you.
Abby : It wasn't really a looney bin. And it was only for a few months. Just until I... My parents thought... I don't know... I never told them, I never told anyone. It was a pact. Amy and me were both supposed to go... in the water. She did it, but I swam back. I swam back... I couldn't... I don't know why we were so unhappy about. Eight... I guess you're too young to know you can get over anything.
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Abby : Remember the moment when you realized your soup didn't have to come out of a can? You konow, all manufactured? That your chicken noodle can kick Cambell's Chicken Noodle's ass any day?
Richard Dunn : I think I'm having that moment right now.
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Richard Dunn : You made this?
Abby : Yeah...
Richard Dunn : How?
Abby : I don't know... An onion, a couple of carrots... One of your beers, uh... Oh, hope that was okay, I just kind of helped myself.
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Richard Dunn : Does this couch make me look fat?
Abby : Um... I wouldn't sit there...
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Abby : [receiving a gift from Richard and takes a wild guess] Oh... It's a... Camel? Peacock?
Richard Dunn : It's the swan. The beautiful, graceful swan.
Abby : Sorry...
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Abby : I had this dream last night. You were in it.
Richard Dunn : Oh. Was I interesting?
Abby : You were you.
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[Richard follows Abby with his bike. Just when Abby turns around, he manages to hide every time. When he passes the corner, Abby is ready with a spray nozzle aimed at his face]
Richard Dunn : No, no, no! It's not like that!
[They stare at each other]
Richard Dunn : WD-40?
Abby : For your wheels. Driving me nuts.
[She sprays]
Abby : Nice bike, though. I used to ride one of these when I was your age. My parents put it in a yard sale. So I had to kill them.
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Abby : Chickenshit.
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Christopher : Isn't this the guy that was following you? I mean, who does that?
Abby : You do. It's just babysitting.
Christopher : Then where's the kid?
Abby : Well... He doesn't have a kid.
Christopher : The guy's a perv, then. You gotta get outta here.
Abby : He's a famous writer! Okay? Get a life.
Christopher : You *are* my life.
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Richard Dunn : I have a problem with my hands.
Abby : What do you mean?
Richard Dunn : They won't do what l want them to do.
Abby : What do you want them to do?
Richard Dunn : Anything... l don't know, something useful... l want them to build something or make something.
Abby : Like what?
Richard Dunn : Even Jesus, l mean, he was a carpenter... You know, it wasn't enough for him to save mankind. He needed a trade... I'm a fIimsy man, an insubstantial.
Abby : Well, compared to Jesus.
Richard Dunn : l'm a paper man.
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Richard Dunn : You seem a lot more interesting than me.
Abby : l'm not... It just seems that way because l have a dead sister.
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Abby : There's Chicken Little you know and, um and Little Red Hen.
Richard Dunn : Henny Penny.
Abby : Yeah, exactly! Exactly.
[laughs]
Abby : Oh you know, there's a lot of books out there about um... poultry.
[Richard chucles]
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Richard Dunn : There is no baby... as such.
Abby : There's-there's no kid?
Richard Dunn : Nope.
Abby : Well... shit, then this will be easy.
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Abby : I wish I had a really amazing fucked-up father like him.