Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Movie Quotes
Joel[narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug]Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?
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[Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak out of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"; the lines are from Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard"]
MaryHow happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
Joel BarishI can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine KruczynskiBut you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
ClementineWhen I was a kid, I thought I was. I can't believe I'm crying already. Sometimes I think people don't understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don't matter. So, I'm eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, "You can't be ugly! Be pretty!" It's weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.
ClementineLook man, I'm telling you right off the bat, I'm high-maintainance, so... I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage, or whatever it is you've got goin' there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me.
ClementineToo many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.
ClementineThat's what intimacy is. I'm really pissed that you said that to me!
JoelI'm sorry... I just, my life isn't that interesting.
ClementineI want to read some of those journals you're constantly scribbling in. What do you write in there if you don't have any thoughts or passions or... love?
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ClementineI'm Clementine. Can I... borrow a piece of your chicken?
JoelAnd then you just took it... without waiting for an answer. It was so intimate; like we were already lovers.
[as Joel and Clementine eat out, he thinks about the other glum-looking couples in the restaurant]
JoelAre we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? I can't stand the idea of us being a couple people think that about.
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ClementineFace it, Joely, you're freaked out because I was out late without you - and in your little wormy brain you're trying to figure out: did she fuck someone tonight?
JoelNo, see Clem. I assume you fucked someone tonight. Isn't that how you get people to like you?
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Joel BarishI can't see anything I don't like about you.
ClementineBut you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
ClementineI don't know. I don't know! I'm lost! I'm scared! I feel like I'm disappearing. My skin's coming off! I'm getting old! Nothing makes any sense to me!
ClementineNothing makes any sense! Nothing makes any sense!
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ClementineYou're not a stalker, or anything, right?
JoelI'm not a stalker. YOU'RE the one that talked to me, remember?
ClementineThat is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
JoelReally? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.
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ClementineI don't need nice. I don't need myself to be it, and I don't need anybody else to be it at me.
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JoelIf only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I'm incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don't know.
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Joel[on tape recording]And the whole thing with the hair - it's all bullshit.
ClementineToo many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.
ClementineMy embarrassing admission is, I really like that you're nice right now. I mean, I can't tell from one moment to the next what I'm gonna like, but right now. - I'm glad you are.
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ClementineLook man, I'm telling you right off the bat I'm high maintenance. So I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin' on there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me.
ClementineI was a little tipsy. Don't call me pathetic.
JoelWell, it *is* pathetic. And it's fucking irresponsible. You could've killed somebody. I don't know, maybe you did kill somebody. Should we turn on the news and see? Should I check the grille to see if there's children or small animals?
MaryI wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible... I think it's important for my job to understand the inner workings of the work that we do, well not that I do, but the work that is done by people where I also work, the work of my colleagues.
Dr. MierzwiakOur files are confidential, Mr. Barish, so we can't show you any evidence. Suffice it to say Miss Kruczynski was not happy and she wanted to move on. We provide that possibility.
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ClementineMy name is Clementine Kruczynski. I'm here to erase Joel Barish. He's boring. Is that enough reason to erase someone?
Howard[overlapping speech]We'll dispose of these mementos when we're done here, that way you won't be confused by their unexplainable presence in your home.
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ClementineI'm fucking crawling out of my skin. I should've left you at the flea market.
RobPot balances me out. Pot brings me up. That's I smoke it if I'm going to be drinking.
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Dr. MierzwiakNow, the, uh... the first thing we need you to do, Mr. Barish, is to go home... and collect everything you own that has some association with Clementine. Anything. And we'll use these items to create a map of Clementine in your brain. Okay? So we'll need, uh, uh, photos, clothing, gifts, books she may have bought you, CDs you may have bought together, journal entries. We want to empty your home... We want to empty your life of Clementine. And after the mapping is done, our technicians will do the erasing in your home tonight. That way, when you awake in the morning, you'll find yourself in your own bed as if nothing had happened... a new life awaiting you.
ClementineI'm always anxious, thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, taking advantage of every possibility, making sure I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have.
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Joel's MotherJoel, honey, I have a surprise... I just... Oh, um... Uh, you know what, honey? I'm just gonna ask you in the morning. Good night, sweetheart.
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JoelYou know, my life isn't that interesting. I go to work, I come home. Don't know what to say. You should read my journal. I mean, it's just - blank.
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StanThat's what they called themselves. Like, "The Clash". The only band that mattered. They called themselves that for a reason.
MaryTo let people begin again. It's beautiful. You look at a baby, and it's so pure and so free and so clean. And adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias. And Howard just makes it all go away.