Kirsten Dunst credited as playing...
Peggy Blumquist
- Dodd Gerhardt: I got four daughters, you know. I'm not a bad guy.
- Peggy Blumquist: You called me a whore. I heard.
- Albert: Peggy.
- [Peggy looks around, confused, and sees a vision of Albert next to Dodd's unconscious body]
- Albert: Have you actualized fully?
- Peggy Blumquist: What?
- Albert: Have you actualized fully?
- Peggy Blumquist: I don't know. I mean, I'm tryin'.
- Albert: Do you feel cold sometimes, even when it's hot?
- Peggy Blumquist: Sometimes.
- Albert: Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?
- Peggy Blumquist: What do you mean?
- Albert: Do you understand the difference between thinking and being?
- Peggy Blumquist: I...
- Albert: To be is simply to exist. Try it. Try simply being.
- [Peggy closes her eyes, tries to sit quietly for a moment]
- Peggy Blumquist: I'm sorry... but how is sittin' here gonna help me be the best person I can be?
- Albert: Ah. You want an explanation.
- Peggy Blumquist: Well, kinda.
- Albert: The human mind, aroused by an insistence for meaning, seeks and finds nothing but contradiction and nonsense.
- Peggy Blumquist: Okay. It's just, practically, I'm sayin', uh, as a person, a married person, a woman who's worried she's not livin' up to her full potential...
- Albert: Think or be. You can't do both.
- Peggy Blumquist: [slowly] You're sayin'... don't think about the person I wanna be. Just be that person.
- Albert: Peggy.
- Peggy Blumquist: Don't think about the person I wanna be, just be that person!
- Peggy Blumquist: How come we have never come here before?
- Ed Blumquist: You said Uncle Grady smelled like athlete's foot.