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James Spader and Mädchen Amick in Dream Lover (1994)

James Spader: Ray

Dream Lover

James Spader credited as playing...

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.

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