Dead Again (1991)
Emma Thompson: Grace, Margaret Strauss
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Quotes
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Grace : [having accidentally shot Mike] I just shot him...
Franklyn Madson : Thank you!
[looks at Mike, then back at her]
Franklyn Madson : Less work for Frankie!
[Grace tries to shoot Franklyn but the gun jams]
Franklyn Madson : [sighs] Antiques!
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Roman Strauss : It's not a bracelet, darling. It's an anklet, a very special anklet. Let's have your leg. It's really very old. The man I bought it from explained to me that when a husband gives this to his wife - they become - two halves of the same person. Nothing can - separate them. Not even death.
Margaret Strauss : So we're stuck with each other.
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Margaret : You're writing an opera about a monster?
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Mike Church : Okey-dokey. I think I've heard enough.
Franklyn Madson : Mr. Church, I really must insist that you refrain from talking during the session.
Mike Church : The lady just told us she met a guy named Roman in 1948. I say the session's over.
Franklyn Madson : On occasion, Mr. Church, hypnosis can take us back to our past lives as well as our past.
Mike Church : You expect me just to run with that?
Franklyn Madson : Let me remind you, yesterday this lady wasn't even speaking.
Grace : [under hypnosis] Rachmaninoff was on the program that night.
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Roman Strauss : Not much of a life line, I'm afraid. But wait. I do see - Love. Passionate, everlasting love.
Margaret : Does this work on a lot of women?
Roman Strauss : I'll let you know.
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Margaret Strauss : Well, I'm not going into hiding, Mr. Baker. I'm just getting married.
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Margaret Strauss : So, any new tidbits from the press?
Gray Baker : Zero. To tell you the truth, I miss the war.
Margaret Strauss : Well, what an odd thing to say.
Gray Baker : Doesn't seem to be much news anymore - all this back-to-normal stuff. The world's getting boring again.
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Grace : They seemed so in love.
Mike Church : Well, those are usually the people that kill each other.
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Grace : Why is it that I can recognize certain smells, that I know my right hand from my left, but I can't remember what my favorite color is or my favorite flower or - what kind of wine I like.
Mike Church : Maybe you're lucky.
Grace : Lucky? How so?
Mike Church : You know, I was just thinking there must be a certain freedom that goes with living only in the present tense. At least you don't have to spend every day trying to forget your past.
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Mike Church : If it makes you feel any better, I can read tea bags.
Grace : You're going to tell me my future?
Mike Church : No. I'm going to tell you your past.
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Grace : This is exactly what happened with Roman and Margaret.
Mike Church : I'm not Roman.
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Margaret Strauss : I don't care about Gray Baker! You can be so stupid sometimes. What happened - to the man who said that nothing could separate us, that we're two halves of the same person?
Roman Strauss : He became - a nobody.
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Gray Baker : I could be a good friend, Margaret.
Margaret Strauss : What makes you such a good friend?
Gray Baker : Well, I can talk baseball to a man and pay a stupid compliment to a woman. What else is there?
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Margaret Strauss : Is it really good to smoke so much?
Gray Baker : No. That's why I started rolling my own. Figured it will slow me down.
Margaret Strauss : Has it?
Gray Baker : No. I just roll them faster.
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Margaret Strauss : He was looking at the anklet! The anklet that you specifically asked me to wear tonight so that everybody could see how rich we are - or were.
Roman Strauss : Is that what you told him? That we're broke?
Margaret Strauss : I didn't tell him anything.
Roman Strauss : No! You just lifted up your dress!
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Grace : I'm afraid of you, Mike.
Mike Church : Well, you're afraid of a dead man.
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Margaret Strauss : [at her wedding reception, at home, to her housekeeper] Inga, I was just upstairs.
Inga : Yes?
Margaret Strauss : Well, it's just that I thought - I mean, we had talked about you and Frankie moving into the guest room downstairs.
Inga : Roman never said anything to me.
Margaret Strauss : Well, what Mr. Strauss said or didn't say is irrelevant. You and I have already discussed this. Now, tonight, of all nights, I'd appreciate it if you weren't sleeping in the next room.
Inga : Yes, Mrs. Strauss.
