Igby Goes Down (2002)

Claire Danes: Sookie

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• Sookie : You know what I think when I'm this close to another body? I think one day at one moment... this body that I'm holding in my arms will stop breathing... stop living. Just... stop. One day you'll happen upon my name in the obits and you'll remember this moment when we were so close.

  Igby : You're a real fuckin' upper.

• Sookie : What kind of name is 'Igby'?

  Igby : The kind of name that someone named 'Sookie' is in no position to question.

• Igby : Are you a vegetarian?

  Sookie : Why would you ask that?

  Igby : I've just never seen anybody roll a joint like that.

  Sookie : What does that have to do with being a vegetarian?

  Igby : Oh, they're just so precious.

  Sookie : I roll perfect joints.

  Igby : I'm not putting them down, they're incredible.

  Sookie : Well, thank you.

  Igby : It's incredible that a human being can make such neat, little joints.

  Sookie : You make it sound as if I'm anal or something, just because I know how to roll a perfect joint.

  Igby : No, not anal. Vegetarian.

  Sookie : Well, what does that mean?

  Igby : Well, you don't roll like, big rasta spliff joints, do you? Your joints are like salad joints, not like a big, sloppy, bleeding cheeseburger-that-you-rip-into-kind-of-a-joint joint.

  Sookie : I guess marijuana isn't a visceral experience for me. Sex is for me.

  Igby : Right.

  Sookie : Okay, so I am a vegetarian, but for purely moral reasons.

• Sookie : You call your mother "Mimi"?

  Igby : "Heinous One" is a bit cumbersome.

  [Sookie nods] 

  Igby : And Medea was taken.

• Sookie : Do you hate my guts?

  Igby : For like a month I did. Now you're not even in my top five.

• Igby : How many Vassar professors and intellectual theologians beget nymphomaniacal, pseudo-Bohemian JAPs?

  Sookie : I am not a JAP.

• Igby : Instead of saying someone or something is funny, why don't you just laugh?

  Sookie : [laughs]  Is that better?

  Igby : Much.

• Sookie : Why aren't you in school now?

  Igby : Sheer ingenuity.

  Sookie : You're funny.

• Sookie : He's your brother, you act like you hate him.

  Igby : I do. I do hate him. He's totally hateable. Evil niblet fuck.

• Sookie : Dimebag... well that got your attention.

  Igby : Pavlov's pothead... I hear the sound of a bong clink and my eyes begin to water.

  Sookie : That's funny.

• Igby : Can we go back to your mom's apartment and have sex?

  Sookie : No! You think that'll make you feel better? It won't. It'll just make you feel really empty and sad. You're better off masturbating.

• Sookie : My parents were two very idealistic, incredibly bright, narcissists. I was like their vanity project.

• Sookie : You have a huge crush on me, don't you?

  Igby : Fuck off.

• Sookie : You're a furious boy. I mean eventually you won't be a boy and it'll eat you up.

  Igby : 'Furious boy'? The thought that I'm going to live my life without ever having told her to fuck off, is pretty goddamn infuriating.

• Sookie : [to and about Ollie]  You're the fascist brother.

  Igby : He prefers young Republican.

• Sookie : How's your brother doing these days?

  Igby : I don't have a brother, I'm an only child.

  Sookie : Oliver was your brother I thought.

  Igby : He is, and yet...

  Sookie : And yet what?

  Igby : Well I was about to say that we were both raised only children, but that sounds like something you would say.

  Sookie : That's funny.