Scarlett Johansson credited as playing...
Nicole Barber
- Nicole: [while arguing with Charlie] You're being so much like your father.
- Charlie: Do not compare me to my father!
- Nicole: I didn't compare you to him. I said you were acting like him.
- Charlie: You're exactly like your mother. Everything you were complaining about her, you're doing. You're suffocating Henry.
- Nicole: First of all, I love my mother. She was a wonderful mother.
- Charlie: I'm just repeating what you told me.
- Nicole: Secondly, how dare you compare my mothering to my mother! I may be like my father, but I am not like my mother!
- Charlie: You are! And you're like my father! You're also like my mother! You're all the bad things about all of these people! But mostly your mother.
- Nicole: You're such a dick!
- Charlie: Everyday I wake up and I hope you're dead! Dead, like, If I could guarantee Henry would be OK, I'd hope you get an illness and then get hit by a car and die!
- [He begins weeping, and then falls to his knees. Then, through tears]
- Charlie: I'm sorry.
- Nicole: [Comforting him] Me too.
- Nicole: Anyway... .Shall we try this?
- Charlie: Ok
- Charlie: I don't know how to start...
- Nicole: Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?
- Charlie: No.
- Nicole: Well, that's not... Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start...
- Charlie: I don't understand it.
- Nicole: You don't remember promising that we could do time out there?
- Charlie: We discussed things. We were married, we said things. We talked about moving to Europe, about getting a sideboard or what do you call it, a credenza, to fill that empty space behind the couch. We never did any of it.
- Charlie: You want to present yourself as a victim because it's a good legal strategy. Fine, but you and I both know you chose this life! You wanted it until you didn't. You used me so you could get out of LA.
- Nicole: I didn't use you.
- Charlie: You did, and then you blamed me for it! You always made me aware of what I was doing wrong, how I was falling short!
- Nora Fanshaw: Where do you want to live now, doll?
- Nicole: Well, I'm here now, obviously. I don't know if the show will get picked up. It feels like home. It is home. It's the only home I've ever known without Charlie.
- Nora Fanshaw: You want to stay here?
- Nicole: Charlie's not going to want that. He hates LA.
- Nora Fanshaw: We're interested in what you want to do. What you're doing is an act of hope. You understand that?
- Nicole: Yeah.
- Nicole: You're so merged with your own selfishness, you don't even identify it as selfishness anymore!