Snow Cake (2006)

Alan Rickman: Alex Hughes

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Quotes 

• Linda Freeman : B-A-A-N-G.

  Alex Hughes : You can't have two A's in bang.

  Linda Freeman : In Comic Book Word Scrabble, you can. You can have three A's if you want.

• Linda Freeman : Do people like you Alex?

  Alex Hughes : Not much, no.

  Linda Freeman : I'm not surprised. It's because those glasses don't look right on your face, you have a long face and those glasses make you look shifty.

  Alex Hughes : Really?

  Linda Freeman : Yes.

• Alex Hughes : So someone said you can drink this water.

  Maggie : Yeah, it's supposed to have healing properties. Why don't you take a sip?

  Alex Hughes : I don't think so.

  Maggie : What, you don't want to be healed? Set free of your demons?

  Alex Hughes : They keep me company.

• Alex Hughes : I don't have baggage. I have haulage.

• Alex Hughes : Being with you. Being with Linda. Being with myself again. Hey, and I'm having sex and these muffins are great. That sort of thing.

• Alex Hughes : I know how you must be feeling. I had a son...

  Linda Freeman : You don't know how I'm feeling because you're not me.

• Alex Hughes : [of the autistic Linda]  She's not *mad*.

  Maggie : Oh, I know. Vivienne explained it all to me. High-functioning; can talk a glass eye to sleep; but can't tie her shoelaces.

• Alex Hughes : Mrs Summer said you can drink this water.

  Maggie : Yeah, it's supposed to have healing properties. Why don't you take a sip?

  Alex Hughes : [stammers briefly]  Don't think so.

  Maggie : What? You don't wanna be healed? Set free of your demons?

  Alex Hughes : They keep me company.

• Vivienne Freeman : Behind every successful man is a truly astonished woman.

  Alex Hughes : He's gay.

  Vivienne Freeman : My point exactly.

• Linda Freeman : Have you ever had an orgasm, Alex?

  Alex Hughes : It has been known.

  Linda Freeman : It sounds like an inferior version of what I feel when I have a mouthful of snow.

  [Shoves some into her mouth] 

• Maggie : [offering to the tea-deprived Alex]  Assam. Darjeeling.

  Alex Hughes : [gratefully, choosing]  There is a God!

  Maggie : Nope, there is FedEx! An English friend of mine sent it over. Don't go inventing a deity to thank for the small miracles. They just happen.