A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Cameron Diaz: Celine

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• Celine : So you're telling me that successful relationships... are made in heaven? Notfounded on the daily practicality... of two people being prepared... to tolerate the imperfections of one another?

  Robert : It's not successful relationships, Celine. It's love. And it comes from a strange and wonderful place... that we don't know about.

  Celine : So you also reject the idea... that love is merely an emotional adaptation... to a physical necessity?

  Robert : Completely.

  Celine : Are you serious?

  Robert : Fate intervenes in people's lives. In ours, for instance. Fate brought us together. It kept us together. We were destined for one another.

  Celine : Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.

  Robert : But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.

  Celine : But you nearly got killed.

  Robert : But I didn't... and here we are.

  Celine : Do you have any substantial evidence to back all this?

  Robert : None at all.

  Celine : And you realize that it's absurd and irrational?

  Robert : I know that.

  Celine : Then why do you believe it?

  Robert : Because, Celine, I'm a dreamer.

  Celine : Well, I guess that makes two of us.

  Robert : Are you ready?

  Celine : As I'll ever be.

  Robert : Then let's go.

• Celine : If word got around that I had been liberated for half a million dollars, I could never show my face in polite society again. Diamonds have no value except that which is placed upon them.

• Robert : Are you taking me to a hospital? Because I don't want to die in a hospital.

  Celine : I'm not going to take you to a hospital.

  Robert : WHAT? What do you mean you're not taking me to a hospital? I demand to be taken to a hospital!

• Celine : I'd like to make a withdrawal.

  Robert : I thought we agreed there'd be no cliches.

• Naville : You are going to go to work, my girl.

  Celine : What?

  Naville : You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business. About money, and how it flows relentlessly back towards he who owns it. How to generate a profit from a loss, a loss from a profit, you are going to work. Now this may not strike you as very palatable. It may make you want to vomit. But you will, I assure you, get used to the taste. And pretty soon, you'll be spooning it down and asking for more like all the other kids.

• Celine : Despite your crummy poem, I came to see you and all you could do was humiliate me and turn me away. I thought you were decent, but it turns out you're just a lying, cheating bastard like all the rest.

• Celine : "Kill me but don't touch the girl." You should be on television.

• Celine : You have the demeanor of a man whose partner has left him for an aerobics instructor.

• Robert : And don't ask where I'm going.

  Celine : Don't even imagine that I care.

  Robert : Exactly the problem!

• Naville : Celine, why don't you give me the gun?

  Celine : Because as he dreamt, I shall save his life with an arrow, an arrow of my love for him.

  [she shoots Robert in the heart] 

• Robert : Why are you such a pain to be with?

  Celine : Because you tied me to a chair all night.

• Celine : Remember what they didn't teach you at Harvard Business school.

  Robert : I didn't go to Harvard Business school!

  Celine : That's a figure of speech, Robert.

• Celine : What's wrong?

  Robert : What's wrong, you crazy bitch, is I thought you were gonna shoot me! THAT'S what's wrong!

• [Naville's car, parked outside the cabin, rocks violently and banging is heard from inside the trunk] 

  Celine : Someone let me out of this trunk! Robert, he's going to kill you! He doesn't want the money, okay? He's going to kill you! Just run, Robert, run!

• Celine : You don't know how I feel. Only the exceptionally rich can know how I feel.

• Celine : "Kidnap For Beginners", Chapter One. Have you even asked for a ransom yet?

• Celine : You're in a lot of trouble, you know. My father's gonna have you killed. You realize that? Tortured first, naturally. Then he's gonna have you killed.

• Celine : Look, they weren't trying to kill you. They were trying to confuse you, and scare you.

  Robert : Yeah, before they killed me.

• Celine : I'm not interested in you, or your novel, or any other pathetic ambition you have to change your miserable, mundane existence.