55 Steps (2017)

Hilary Swank: Colette Hughes

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• Colette Hughes : You know, Eleanor, you are not gravely disabled, you're gravely obnoxious.

  Eleanor Riese : [laughs out loud]  That was a good one.

• Colette Hughes : I first met Eleanor Riese as her lawyer, but soon--because Eleanor was Eleanor--Eleanor became my friend. And soon, because Eleanor was Eleanor, she became my protector, my guardian, my worst critic, and my greatest support.

• hospital's lawyer : Tell me, when you were a nurse, you never gave drugs to patients without their informed consent?

  Colette Hughes : No. Never. I always felt it was my primary responsibility to care for the patient, not manage them for my own convenience.

• [last lines] 

  Colette Hughes : Sometimes, when I find myself overwhelmed by how much there still is to do, I see those big eyes of hers, and her mischievious grin, and I think she's still looking down at me. And I better sit down and have a 7up. And I hear her say, "Tell me I'm not right. Just tell me I'm not right!"