26 quotes
Wealth and Divorce in California
Helen Sharp
Divorce? In California? That is exactly what she wants you to do. You have no talent for poverty.
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Madeline's Shock Over Deaths
Madeline Ashton
Ernest is dead? Everybody's dead!
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Reflections on Beauty and Impermanence
Madeline Ashton
Wrinkled, wrinkled little star, hope they never see the scars.
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Madeline's Disturbing Revelation in the Morgue
Madeline Ashton
Ernest, I'm in the morgue.
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Appreciation of Unconventional Choices
Madeline Ashton
And she even paid for the hardware. Don't you just love it?
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Inquiry About Dress and Occasion
Madeline Ashton
You're dressed. Special occasion?
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Unmasking Deception in Relationships
Madeline Ashton
(whilst peering through a gaping hole in Helen) You're a fraud, Helen. A walking lie and I can see right through you.
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Tension Between Helen and Madeline Unfolds
Helen
Oh, ok. If she's not dead you tell her to come down, you tell her to come down here and kiss me on the...
Madeline
Kiss you on the what?
Helen
Mad?
Madeline
Hel...What have you two been plotting down here? Or should I say what else?
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The Choice of Immortality
Lisle
Go on... Drink it... It is the completion of your life's work. You gave other people youth and wasted your own! Drink. And you will be able to work again forever! Drink... drink, Dr. Menville. You owe yourself another chance! Drink! It's the right choice! The only choice! Drink! SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER!
Ernest
Then what?
Lisle
What?
Ernest
Then what happens?
Lisle
What?
Ernest
I don't want to live forever. I mean, it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? What if I get bored?
Lisle
What?
Ernest
And what if I get lonely? Who am I gonna hang around with, Madeleine and Helen? What if something happens to me? What if I get maimed? What if I get shot? What if somebody pushes me down...What if I fall down a flight of stairs or something?
Lisle
But you'll never grow old!
Ernest
Yes, but everybody else will! I'll have to watch everyone around me die. I don't think this is right. This is not a dream. This is a nightmare! You people all have to be stopped!
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Letting Go of the Past
Psychiatrist
Is this where we are, Helen? Six months of therapy, you are not even one pound lighter, and we are still talking about Madeline Ashton!
Helen
Do you think I enjoy talking about Madeline Ashton?
Psychiatrist
Do you think I enjoy it? Is that what you think? Well, you'd better think again. Oh, Helen! For you to have a life — for any of us to have a life — you have got to forget about her. You have to erase her from your mind. You have to completely eliminate any...
[sighs]
Helen
What...?
Psychiatrist
You have to completely eliminate...
Helen
You're right.
Psychiatrist
What?
Helen
You are absolutely right.
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Embracing a New Identity After Transformation
Madeline Ashton
(after seeing herself transformed from drinking the potion) I'm a girl!
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Desire for Deception and Urgency
Madeline Ashton
Oh, for Christ's sake. At least lie quickly!
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Confronting Blame and Betrayal
Helen Sharp
(while confronting Ernest Menville) No Ernest, she has wasted you, she married a brilliant surgeon and turned him into an undertaker. I want you to know something, I have never blamed you for leaving me. I always knew it was her. She is a woman, Ernest, a woman, from Newark, for God's sake. I will never forgive her for what she has done to you. Never.
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The Bittersweet Nature of Youth and Decay
Lisle Von Rhoman
This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.
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The Pursuit of Eternal Youth
Taglines
Some people will go to any lengths to stay young forever. But Madeline Ashton and her old friend Helen Sharp are about to go TOO far.
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The Uncertainty of Eternal Life
Taglines
In one small bottle... The fountain of youth. The secret of eternal life. The power of an ancient potion. Sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't.
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Critique of a Flawed Character
Helen Sharp
She was a homewrecker, she was a man eater, and she was a bad actress.
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Accusation of Betrayal and Violence
Madeline Ashton
Ernest! You pushed me down the stairs.
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Acceptance of Past Relationships
Helen Sharp
(while confronting Madeline Ashton) Listen, that was a long time ago, you didn't steal him, he went to you. It wasn't you, it was him. I just want you to know something that I have never ever blamed you, never.
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Confrontation and Defiance in Helen Sharp
Helen Sharp
En garde, BITCH!
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Beauty Standards and Age Perception
Anna
How about a nice colagen buff instead?
Madeline
A colagen buff? You might as well ask me to wash with soap and water!
Anna
I could do your make-up myself
Madeline
Make-up is pointless! It does nothing anymore. Are you even listening to me? Do you even care? You just stand there with your twenty-two year old skin and your tits like rocks and laugh at me.
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Final Thoughts in a Moment of Chaos
Helen Sharp
(Last lines. Helen and Madeleine shatter into pieces after falling down stairs) Do you remember where you parked the car?
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Madeline's Unfiltered Observation on Appearance
Madeline Ashton
Ernest, my ass...I can see... my ass!
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A Request for Space and Readiness
Lisle Von Rhoman
Make some room for my friend, for Christ's sake. But... keep your ass handy.
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Unexpected Gratitude in a Surprising Moment
Ernest
Oh my god...
[after the sample of potion restores his hand]
Lisle
Thank you.
[blushes]
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Madeline's Unique Talent for Pretending
Madeline Ashton
Ain't nobody can play dead like me, Ernest.
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