The Children Act (2017)

Stanley Tucci: Jack Maye

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Quotes 

• Jack Maye : I think I want to have an affair.

• Jack Maye : How'd it go?

  Fiona Maye : I just gave orders to slaughter a baby. That's what the papers say.

  Jack Maye : Ah, yes. I saw that.

• Jack Maye : Do you remember how we were? Do you remember how we

  [taps Fiona's forearm thrice] 

  Jack Maye : ? Don't you miss that?

• [First Lines] 

  Jack Maye : Are you coming to bed?

  Fiona Maye : [continues typing without turning around to look at Jack]  Hmm.

  Jack Maye : Fi?

  Fiona Maye : It's tomorrow, the... My conjoined twins. Judgement. I've got the bloody Archbishop of Westminster breathing down my neck.

• Jack Maye : Look, you wanna live like this? Fine. I don't. I'm going to have this affair.

  Fiona Maye : And a divorce and the child I've failed to give you?

  Jack Maye : No. No divorce, no deception, no lies. I love you and we're meant to be together but... look, I could have gone behind your back.

  Fiona Maye : Oh, how very kind. I can't believe how cool we are. Open marriage. The time to suggest that, Jack, was before the wedding, not twenty years afterwards.

• Jack Maye : [about marital sex]  Don't you miss it, Fi? Or is it just because you don't want it, I can't have it? Is that the deal?

• Fiona Maye : But you don't know.

  Jack Maye : Then tell me. Everything.

  Fiona Maye : Will you still love me?

• Jack Maye : Listen, I left this marriage for two days. Two days. *You* left it years ago.

• Jack Maye : I've been watching you sleep.

  Fiona Maye : Thank you.