Close My Eyes (1991)

Clive Owen: Richard

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• Richard : Come into the church and feel no guilt... come on, I dare you!

• Richard : And to think, we didn't even really like each other as kids.

• Richard : You wanted to be artistic.

  Natalie : I'm not artistic.

  Richard : But you wanted to be.

• Natalie : I thought I heard voices.

  Richard : Just my secretary, we're alone together.

  Natalie : You're probably screwing her.

  Richard : As a matter of fact I am.

• Sinclair : These ashtrays are interesting, they're ridiculously large. People proclaim their importance in such a crass fashion. What will historians make of these ashtrays?

  Richard : You're interested in everything, Sinclair.

  Sinclair : These lists, ashtrays, this secretary here, you.

• [first lines] 

  Natalie : You're late.

  Richard : Sorry, it was unavoidable, trains on Sunday, you know what they're like.

  Natalie : Unavoidable? I don't believe it. I've eaten all the food.

  Richard : You've eaten all the food? Now that's serious.

• Richard : [to Sinclair's boatman]  Is he going to kill me, do you think?

• Richard : Being single...

  Natalie : What about it?

  Richard : It's not as simple as it used to be.

• Jessica : I don't believe this, Richard, the vanity... now get out of here before I lose my temper.

  Richard : But I was just asking you out.

  Jessica : I thought you were meant to be something of an expert, you seem decidely rusty to me.

  Richard : Rusty, certainly not, what's the answer?

  Jessica : No. No! I've never seen anybody so obviously thinking about another...

  Richard : Another what?

  Jessica : I was going to say a woman, but it's more likely to be a 15-year old girl, isn't it? Who is she? Are you at a loose end tonight because of her? Or are you trying to forget her?

• Sinclair : She's lying to me, all the time. When people lie to you, you suddenly can't think of anything else.

  Richard : You've spotted little signs, have you?

  Sinclair : ...little signs... didn't need to. She's been carrying around a giant placard saying, "I've been fucking somebody else."

• Richard : She went for a job, he was the boss. She didn't get the job, she got him.