Manhattan (1979)

Meryl Streep: Jill

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• Isaac Davis : All the times I come over here, I can't understand how you can prefer her to me.

  Jill : You can't understand that?

  Isaac Davis : No. It's a mystery to me.

  Jill : Well, you knew my history when you married me.

  Isaac Davis : I know. My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful that I got another analyst.

• Isaac Davis : You honestly think that I tried to run you over?

  Connie : You just happened to hit the gas as I walked in front of the car?

  Isaac Davis : Did I do it on purpose?

  Jill : Well, what would Freud say?

  Isaac Davis : Freud would say I really wanted to run her over, that's why he was a genius.

• Isaac Davis : [after reading his Jill's book about their relationship]  I came here to strangle you!

  Jill : Nothing I wrote was untrue.

  Isaac Davis : You make me out to be Lee Harvey Oswald!

  Jill : It's an honest account.

• Isaac Davis : Don't write this book. It's a humiliating experience.

  Jill : It's an honest account of our break-up.

  Isaac Davis : Jesus, everybody that knows us is gonna know everything.

  Jill : Look at you. You're so threatened.

  Isaac Davis : Hey, I'm not threatened. Because, of the two of us, I was not the immoral, psychotic, promiscuous one. I hope I didn't leave out anything.

• Isaac Davis : How's Willie?

  Jill : Fine.

  Isaac Davis : Well, give me some details, will you. What do you mean "fine"? Does he play baseball? Wear dresses? What?

• Jill : I wrote some nice things about you.

  Isaac Davis : Like what? What?

  Jill : Like what? Like you cry when you see "Gone With The Wind".