The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Daniel Day-Lewis: Tomas

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• Tomas : You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

• Tomas : I must go.

  Sabina : Don't you ever spend the night at the woman's place?

  Tomas : Never!

  Sabina : What about when the woman's at your place?

  Tomas : I tell her I have insomnia... anything. Besides, I have a very narrow bed.

  Sabina : Are you afraid of women, Doctor?

  Tomas : Of course.

• [first lines] 

  First Title Card : In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...

  Tomas : Take off your clothes.

  [line recurs several times during film] 

• [last lines] 

  Tereza : Tomas, what are you thinking?

  Tomas : I'm thinking how happy I am.

• Tomas : Some people never change.Some people are always scoundrels.

• Tereza : [referring to her dog]  Karenin prefers Mephisto to dogs. She thinks other dogs are silly.

  Tomas : [Mephisto snorts and Tomas inhales the aroma of the food]  Ha-ha.

  Pavel : Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,

  [gesturing for emphasis] 

  Pavel : he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.

  [shrugging] 

  Pavel : No place to drink beer now.

  [he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly] 

  Pavel : It's good... very good.

  [slurping] 

  Pavel : If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.

• Sabina : Maybe I am seeing you for the last time?

  Tomas : Maybe.