Mozart and the Whale (2005)

Josh Hartnett: Donald Morton

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• Donald Morton : People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much; we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all.

• Donald Morton : Turns out you can't control people.

  Donald Morton : Or even predict them.

  Donald Morton : Numbers are different.

  Donald Morton : As I used to say, you can count on them.

• Wallace : After everything she told me, and checking on your excellent record in college, I'm wondering why you choose to drive a taxi for a living.

  Donald Morton : At my interview with IBM after I graduated college, they asked me what my plans were, and I said, "Probably go to McDonalds for a 12-piece McNugget and two cheeseburgers, and then do my laundry."

  Wallace : Did they laugh, at least?

  Donald Morton : They smiled and said they'd call me. They didn't.

• Donald Morton : I'm late, which is ironic, because I started out 9 hours and 23 minutes early.

• Donald Morton : Excuse me. Do you know when the next bus, uh 217, runs?

  Man at bus stop : Sorry.

  Donald Morton : I'm chasing someone.

  Man at bus stop : By bus?

  Donald Morton : Well, it's important.

  Man at bus stop : Important enough to take the bus?

  Donald Morton : Yeah. My girlfriend left me because I wanted to get married and she wanted to stay just friends.

  Man at bus stop : Ah. The slower this chase, the better.

  Donald Morton : Yeah.

• Gregory : Can I give you some advice?

  Donald Morton : Can I humanly stop you?

  Gregory : Stick with the group. Compared to us, you're a god. And, uh, next to Isabelle, which you will *never* be again, you don't come off so hot.

• Isabelle Sorenson : All this time, and you didn't call.

  Donald Morton : I was gonna call.

  Isabelle Sorenson : You were?

  Donald Morton : Well just to tell you that I wasn't gonna call so that you wouldn't be aggravated, sitting around waiting and wondering when I was

  Isabelle Sorenson : gonna call?

  Donald Morton : Yeah. But in the end I figured that forcing myself into your life was probably not right. I would always do that. So the only nice thing I had left to give was just not to call.

  Isabelle Sorenson : I hated you for not calling. Because you were always gonna be there, and when you weren't, it was as if you didn't love me anymore.

  Donald Morton : So go home, I'll call ya.

• Isabelle Sorenson : Be my friend Donald, be my best friend, please, because I really need you. I always felt like you wanted us to get married or something.

  Donald Morton : I never said that.

  Isabelle Sorenson : Not with words. But instead of that, do you want to just be my friend?

  Donald Morton : Without the sex?

  Isabelle Sorenson : Without the pressure. My friendship is all I have to give. Do you want it?

• Isabelle Sorenson : Don't - don't condescend to these women, they're no crazier that I am.

  Gracie : Yes we are!

  Isabelle Sorenson : I'm weird, but I'm not strange.

  Donald Morton : You're right, this isn't a matter of confusion, it's a matter of... discord.

  [Inappropriate change of subject:] 

  Donald Morton : That's a nice sweater!

• Isabelle Sorenson : You can kiss my self esteem butt, Donald Duck. Why tell your life story, and tell only the good parts?

  Donald Morton : It's Donald Morton.

  Isabelle Sorenson : You're missing my point!

  Donald Morton : No I'm not! I just - never know what to say.

• Donald Morton : Oh - All my life I felt like I was on the sidelines. Uh, watching the parade go by. When you're a whale, you are the parade.

• Janice : Can I give you some advice?

  Donald Morton : Can I humanly stop you?

  Janice : Stick with the group. Compared to us, you're a god. And, uh, next to Isabelle, which you will *never* be again, you don't come off so hot.

• [Donald calls Isabelle for the first time, but hangs up anxiously] 

  Donald Morton : First time better to get a machine, don't you think?

• [Donald describes his technique of prime factorization] 

  Isabelle Sorenson : Your process is very sexual.

  Donald Morton : Primes are hot.

• Donald Morton : I save things. Because you never know, you know.

  Isabelle Sorenson : You said your mom died. You did bury her?

  Donald Morton : Yeah.

  Isabelle Sorenson : Just checking.

• Donald Morton : You know how in the jungle, they say that some elephants have longer trunks and some of them have shorter ones. Yeah.

  Isabelle Sorenson : Well, I don't care how long the elephant's trunk is... as long as his dick's okay.

• [Donald comes in front of a car in a parking lot] 

  Car driver : Trying to get yourself killed?

  Donald Morton : Maybe later.

• Isabelle Sorenson : I can't promise you the future Donald Duck. I don't know if this is for 2 days or 20 years.

  Donald Morton : Maybe it's something about us that's normal.