Dream Lover (1993)

James Spader: Ray

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• Ray : [showing photos]  Do you know her?

  Buddy : Sissy. Hope she's nothin' to you.

  Ray : She's my wife.

  Buddy : Figures. Did she run off and leave you?

  Ray : No.

  Buddy : Well, give it time.

  Ray : Is that what she did to you?

  Buddy : [smiles]  She did things to me I can't even pronounce.

• Ray : [outside her apartment]  Uh... Can I come up? I mean, just for five minutes?

  Lena : It wouldn't take five minutes.

  [goes inside] 

• Ray : [to his lawyer]  The law? Fuck the law.

• Ray : What's the problem?

  Lena : I like you, that's the problem... I really like you.

• Lena : Look, just 'cause I'm halfway pretty guys look in my eyes and think they know me. Like I'm their fantasy. I'm just a regular screwed-up person. So when you say I'm beautiful, it's like you're not seeing me at all.

  Ray : Yes, I am.

  Lena : No.

  Ray : "Only God, my dear, can love you for yourself alone and not your yellow hair" - Yeats.

  [causing Lena to smile] 

• Ray : You threw away the bill.

  Lena : What bill?

  Ray : *Hotel Chanticleer every fucking Wednesday!*

  Lena : I threw it away.

• Ray : [as he puts his hands around her throat]  Crazy people aren't legally responsible.

• Ray : What if I fly into a *rage* and attack you?

  Lena : You're sedated.

  Ray : I am? I don't *feel* sedated.

  Lena : That's because you're crazy.

• Norman : [talking to Ray about a woman he has invited to a party to meet Ray]  Tits. Did someone say tits? Like... pears...

  Ray : [frustrated]  Huh.

  Norman : ... huh? And not the hard green ones either, the juicy Comice you get in the box from Oregon, Harry & David.

• Lena : Is this the end?

  Ray : I can't keep opening my heart to you and getting...

  Lena : Isn't that what love is? I don't mean passion. Love. Isn't it an act of faith, loving someone despite having to put up with things which are intolerable. Opening your heart... again and again.

• Ray : No matter who you were, and no matter who you are, and no matter who you will be, I'm going to love you.

• Ray : [at party, ccidentally bumps into Lena]  I'm so---!

  Lena : Will you look where you're going!

  Ray : [Lena's drink is spilled over her dress]  Oh, Jesus...!

  Lena : This is wine. You've ruined...

  [Ray tries to wipe away at the stain] 

  Lena : Get your hands off me, it's bad enough that you've ruined my dress!

  Ray : I was just...

• Lena : So, I'm VP Sales, and moving up. Then the CO decides he likes me. I say no, but he's used to getting what he wants.

  [nods] 

  Lena : I had to threaten to call his wife. So, of course he fires me. He spreads the word. It's a small community. I couldn't get hired anywhere in New York.

  Ray : You should have gone to court, and filed some...

  [shakes his head] 

  Lena : Sure. If, as he put it, I wanted to hear every guy in the company testify that they had me. I moved out here instead.

  Ray : What a terrible...

  Lena : Yeah.

  [they share meaningful looks] 

  Ray : [smiles]  I've never done this before.

  Lena : Done what before?

  Ray : Pick somebody at the supermarket.

  Lena : [smiles]  You didn't pick me up. We bumped into each other.

• Lena : Getting to know someone is like peeling an onion.

  Ray : It makes you cry?

  Lena : [smiles]  No. Layers... and more layers.