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Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves (1996)

Adrian Rawlins: Dr. Richardson

Breaking the Waves

Adrian Rawlins credited as playing...

Dr. Richardson

Quotes2

  • Dr. Richardson: Bess. I... I think you've got yourself involved in something that is out of your control.
  • Bess McNeill: Have I?
  • Dr. Richardson: [sighs] Come on Bess. You're not a kid anymore. Look for Christ's sake, he's... he's forcing you to get screwed by every Tom, Dick and Harry... it's just not you.
  • Bess McNeill: I don't make love with them. I make love with Jan, and I save him from dying.
  • Dr. Richardson: [exhales] Well I'm sorry, but, you know, to me seems more like a dirty old man who wants to play the Peeping Tom.
  • Bess McNeill: Sometimes... I don't even have to tell him about it.
  • Bess McNeill: Sometimes... I don't even have to tell him about it. Jan and me... we have a spiritual contact. God gives everyone something to be good at. I've always been stupid... but I'm good at this. God gives everyone a talent.
  • Dr. Richardson: What's Jan's talent?
  • Bess McNeill: He is... He's a great lover.
  • Dr. Richardson: Well, what's... what's mine, then?
  • Bess McNeill: I don't know. Haven't you found it yet?
  • Dr. Richardson: [chuckles] I see... And what's your talent, Bess? Because, um, surely it can't be being screwed by men you've never seen before.
  • Bess McNeill: I can believe.
  • Judge: Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.
  • Dr. Richardson: If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".
  • Judge: Good?
  • Dr. Richardson: Yes.
  • Judge: You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?
  • Judge: Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!
  • Judge: Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?
  • Dr. Richardson: [pause] No. Of course not.

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