Breaking the Waves (1996)

Adrian Rawlins: Dr. Richardson

Quotes 

• Dr. Richardson : Bess. I... I think you've got yourself involved in something that is out of your control.

  Bess McNeill : Have I?

  Dr. Richardson : [sighs]  Come on Bess. You're not a kid anymore.

  Dr. Richardson : Look for Christ's sake, he's... he's forcing you to get screwed by every Tom, Dick and Harry... it's just not you.

  Bess McNeill : I don't make love with them. I make love with Jan, and I save him from dying.

  Dr. Richardson : [exhales]  Well I'm sorry, but, you know, to me seems more like a dirty old man who wants to play the Peeping Tom.

  Bess McNeill : Sometimes... I don't even have to tell him about it.

  Bess McNeill : Jan and me... we have a spiritual contact.

  Bess McNeill : God gives everyone something to be good at. I've always been stupid... but I'm good at this.

  Bess McNeill : God gives everyone a talent.

  Dr. Richardson : What's Jan talent?

  Bess McNeill : He is... He's a great lover.

  Dr. Richardson : Well, what's... what's mine, then?

  Bess McNeill : I don't know.

  Bess McNeill : Haven't you find it yet?

  Dr. Richardson : [chuckles]  I see... And what's your talent Bess? Because, um, surely it can't be being screwed by men you've never seen before.

  Bess McNeill : I can believe.

• Judge : Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.

  Dr. Richardson : If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".

  Judge : Good?

  Dr. Richardson : Yes.

  Judge : You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?

  Judge : Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!

  Judge : Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?

  Dr. Richardson : [pause]  No. Of course not.