Human Nature (2001)

Rhys Ifans: Puff

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• Puff : I'm an ape, mother. Apes don't drop lines.

• Puff : Words are evil. Are they not evil, these words we use? Hmm? Does anyone know the definition of simultagnosia? I meant to look it up before Lila saved me.

  Nathan Bronfman : The inability to perceive elements as a component of a whole.

  Puff : Thank you, thank you. My pleasure. Don't mention it. Good to see you again. Stop!

• Puff : Mother...

  Puff's Mother : Yes, Derek?

  Puff : It's a pleasure to meet you mother, but I'm an ape, like dad was, and I have to go back into the woods now... forever.

• Puff : Apes don't assasinate their presidents, gentlemen!

• Puff : My name is Puff. I am a perfect gentleman.

• Puff : Words are evil!

• Puff : [...]  There is indeed a Paradise Lost. Human beings have become so enamored of their intellectual prowess that they forgot to look to the Earth as a teacher. This is hubris, my friends!

• [first lines] 

  Lila Jute : I'm *not* sorry.

  Puff : I *am* sorry.

  Nathan Bronfman : I don't even know what sorry means anymore.

• [last lines] 

  Gabrielle : You remind me so much of Nathan.

  Puff : Like father, like son.

  Gabrielle : Plus, so much of my little mongrel doggy.

  Puff : woof! Let's go eat, I'm starving.

  Gabrielle : French?

  Puff : Yes.