Manhattan (1979)

Mariel Hemingway: Tracy

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• Tracy : Let's fool around, it'll take your mind off it.

  Isaac Davis : Hey, how many times a night can you, how, how often can you make love in an evening?

  Tracy : Well, a lot.

  Isaac Davis : Yeah! I can tell, a lot. That's, well, a lot is my favorite number.

• [last lines] 

  Tracy : I'll be back in six months.

  Isaac Davis : Six months are you kidding? Six months you're gonna go for?

  Tracy : We've gone this long, well what's six months if we still love each other?

  Isaac Davis : Hey, don't be so mature, okay? I mean, six months is a long time! Six months, you know you're gonna be, you'll be in, in, in, in the th - working in a theater there, you'll be with actors and directors, you kno w you're, you know, you go to rehearsal, and you, you hang out with those people, you have lunch a lot, and, and, before you even know it attachments form and, and, you know, I mean, you, you don't want to be get into that kind a, I mean, you, you'll change. You know, you'll be, you'll be, in six months you'll be a completely different person.

  Tracy : Well, don't you want me to have that experience? I mean a while ago you made such a convincing case.

  Isaac Davis : Ye, yeah of course I do, you know, but you - you know, you, I mean you, I, I just don't want - that thing about you that I like to change.

  Tracy : I've got to make a plane.

  Isaac Davis : C'mon, you don't - c'mon. You don't, you don't have to - go.

  Tracy : Why couldn't you have brought this up last week? Six months isn't so long. Not everybody gets corrupted. You can have a little faith in people.

• Tracy : Let's fool around. Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to, but nobody would do with you.

• Tracy : I can't believe that you met somebody that you like better than me.

• Tracy : So what happens to us?

  Isaac Davis : Well, you know, we'll always have Paris.

• Isaac Davis : Tomorrow we'll go to the Bleeker Street Cinema and I'll show you the Veronica Lake movie. Okay?

  Tracy : Veronica Lake's the pin-up with the red hair?

  Isaac Davis : No, that's Rita Hayworth. How many - do we have to go over this all the time?

  Tracy : Rita who?

  Isaac Davis : Rita Hayworth. Are you joking with me? I mean, I don't know when you're teasing.

  Tracy : Of course I'm joking! You think I'm unaware of any event pre-Paul McCartney or something.

• Mary Wilke : They're such schmucks up there. Really mired in Thirties radicalism. What do you do, Tracy?

  Tracy : I go to high school.

  Mary Wilke : Oh, really. Really. Somewhere Nabokov is smiling, if you know what I mean.

• Tracy : Is she Yale's mistress?

  Isaac Davis : That will never cease to mystify me. I mean, he's got a wonderful wife and he prefers to - to diddle this yo-yo. You know, but he was always a sucker for those kind of women. You know, the kind that would involve him in discussions of existential reality, you know. They probably sit around on the floor with wine and cheese, and mispronounce "allegorical" and "didacticism".

• Isaac Davis : What a creep! Could you believe her? I mean she was really...

  Tracy : She seemed real nervous.

  Isaac Davis : Nervous? She was overbearing. She was, you know, terrible! She was all cerebral. You know, where the hell does a little Radcliffe tootsie come off rating F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gustav Mahler and then Heinrich Böll?

  Tracy : I don't understand why you're getting so mad?

  Isaac Davis : I'm mad because I don't like that pseudo-intellectual garbage. "Van Goch!" Did you hear that? She said "Van Goch." Like an Arab she spoke. If she had made one more remark about Bergman, I would have knocked her other contact lens out.

• Tracy : I'm not hung up on you. I'm in love with you.

  Isaac Davis : You *can't* be in love with me. We've been over this. You're a kid. You don't know what love means. I don't know what it means. Nobody out there knows what the hell's going on.

• Tracy : I like it when you get an uncontrollable urge.

  Isaac Davis : Yeah, I know, it's my best feature. My boyish impetuosity.

• Tracy : We have laughs together. I care about you. Your concerns are my concerns. We have great sex!

  Isaac Davis : You're - you're - But, you're 17 years old.

• Tracy : You keep stating it like it's to my advantage when it's you that wants to get out of it.