Miss Julie (2014)
Jessica Chastain: Miss Julie
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Quotes
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Miss Julie : Have you ever been in love?
John : [rigorously polishing a boot] We don't use that word. But I have liked a lot of girls. And once when I could not have one girl I wanted, I became sick, horribly sick. Sick like a prince in a fairy tale, a prince who cannot eat or drink because of love.
Miss Julie : Who was it?
John : It was you.
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Miss Julie : Are you ever afraid to hear that you're no longer wanted? That you don't belong?
John : I shared a bed with my little brother, and one morning, when I was eight, I woke up and found him dead beside me. I saw death for the first time and yes, I was afraid. But not in the way you're talking about.
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Miss Julie : On the other side of that wall, I have a place. A secret garden. There is no wind there. I go there when I'm anxious. I'm anxious all the time. I'm always longing for some other place. You cannot imagine how different I want my life to be.
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John : You and me.
Miss Julie : Yes, we must leave.
John : To make life hell for each other?
Miss Julie : No. To be happy, smile on the inside. Enjoy ourselves a few years, as long as we can, and then... to die. Would you die with me?
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[last lines]
Miss Julie : [throwing flowers into the creek] I'm sending you out into the world. Look. You're like bright-colored stars. The water is your heaven. Do you know that, my flowers? Yes. Everything is so much bigger than the little pieces. Do you know that?
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Kathleen : God is no respecter of status, except the last shall be first.
Miss Julie : So He helps the last then?
Kathleen : And it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So you see, Miss Julie, it's just the way it is.
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Miss Julie : Sometimes I dream that I'm on top of a column and I can't get down. I'm almost fainting when I look down, but I must get down. I'm so scared to fall. I can no longer hold on and I long to fall. But I don't fall. Yet there's no peace, no rest till I come down. I would be descending. I would fall. And if I reach the ground, I want to go further down. Deep into the earth itself. Did you ever feel this?
John : No, no, I - I dream that I am lying under a tall tree in a dark forest and - I want to go up, up to the top, and look around at the bright landscape where the sun is shining and so I can rob the nest in which lies the golden eggs. And I climb and climb. But the trunk is so thick and so slippery, and it is so far to the first branch. But I know that if I can only reach that first branch, then I would easily reach the top. I haven't reached it yet - that first branch - but I will, if it only be in my dreams.
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Miss Julie : A servant is a servant.
John : And a whore is a whore!
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Miss Julie : Oh, how can a human soul be so filthy?
John : Wash it off then.
Miss Julie : You minion!
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Miss Julie : Tell me you love me. Otherwise I am nothing.
John : Not now, not here. And above all, it's important - no feelings. Then everything will be lost. Cold blood, clear heads, grown-up people.
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John : Miss Julie, you are a wonderful woman, and you're far too good for one like me. You've been drinking. You lost your head. And now you're trying to cover up your mistake by telling yourself that you love me. Well, you don't. Unless my looks may have tempted you. And maybe there was a physical attraction. But that makes your love no better than mine. I could be your pet, like your dog that you give affection when it suits you, but that's not enough for me. I can never make you love me.
Miss Julie : Are you so sure?
John : Are you meaning to say that it might be possible?
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John : Go. Get up there.
Miss Julie : Speak kindly to me.
John : Orders always sound unkind. Now you know what it feels like. Go.
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Miss Julie : I'm anxious all the time. I'm always longing for some other place.
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Miss Julie : Leave me alone. You're disgusting, like a rat. I hate you.
John : Run away with me then.
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Miss Julie : I need you to understand me, to see me.
John : Don't give me the secrets of your life. You'll regret it.
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Miss Julie : I see silver and gold - and all the stars. Just like when I went to sleep as a child. I'm floating out of the window and up to the sky. Such freedom, surrounded by sparkling crystal. And the dark is no longer dark. The whole room is warm and safe like an open fire. It's you. And I am close to the fire. How nice and warm it is. And it is so quiet and so light.
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Miss Julie : Make me. Order me. I'll obey you like a dog.
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Miss Julie : I have chosen to forget all rank and so must you. Come, give me your arm. Thank you, John. I really don't want to treat you as an inferior.
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Miss Julie : You're a man of the future, aren't you?
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John : You are strange.
Miss Julie : So are you. Life is strange, people - everything. We're just foam floating on water until we sink.
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Miss Julie : Toast me.
[John freezes]
Miss Julie : Are you bashful?
John : To your health, Miss Julie.
Miss Julie : Bravo. Now kiss my shoe.
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Miss Julie : Shall we go and pick some lilacs?
John : I can't do that. Absolutely not.
Miss Julie : I order you.
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Miss Julie : I think she's snoring.
John : She doesn't. But she talks in her sleep.
Miss Julie : How would you know?
