Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Kirsten Dunst: Mary

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Quotes 

• [Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak out of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"; the lines are from Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard"] 

  Mary : How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

• Mary : Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

  [they click glasses] 

  Mary : That's Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. I found it in my Bartlett's.

• Mary : I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedure as possible... I think it's important for my job to understand the inner workings of the work that we do, well not that I do, but the work that is done by people where I also work, the work of my colleagues.

• [Mary is stoned, and Joel has just gone off the map] 

  Mary : He could wake up all half-baked and, gooey and, and half-baked... mmm, that sounds sooo good. I'm hungry.

• Mary : That was beautiful to watch, Howard. Like a surgeon or a concert pianist.

• Stan : He's off the map! He's off the map.

  Mary : Where?

  Stan : I don't know where. What do you mean? I don't know where. This is bad. This is very, very bad news.

• Mary : Don't. Wait, wait, wait, wait! No. I'm sorry, Doctor. He just barged right in here.

  Joel : Okay. I want it done. Now.

  Mary : I told him pre-Valentine's Day is our busy time.

• Stan : That's what they called themselves. Like, "The Clash". The only band that mattered. They called themselves that for a reason.

  Mary : It's amazing, isn't it?

  Stan : Like social justice. Yeah, it's totally incredible.

  Mary : What Howard gives to the world.

  Stan : Yeeeeah...

  Mary : To let people begin again. It's beautiful. You look at a baby, and it's so pure and so free and so clean. And adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias. And Howard just makes it all go away.