Better Than Sex (2000)

David Wenham: Josh

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Quotes 

• Josh : For the first time in my life I was with someone I was really into, you know the feeling where you just crave them?

• Cin : So, London. That must be an exciting place to live.

  Josh : Yeah... yeah, apart from the cold, the rain, the filth, the huge cost of everything, oh, and the English, it's a great place to live.

• Josh : All I wanted to do was be a princess for a day.

• Josh : Yeah, you have to sleep together and run away, as soon as you let some sort of intimacy develop it's... I dunno, it gets crazy.

• Josh : That photo reminds me of... Oh, fucked if I know, something.

  Cin : That you loved her.

• [internal monologues] 

  Cin : Three days... hm, it's tempting.

  Josh : Hm, it's tempting.

• Josh : As soon as you're about to leave the country you suddenly become more desirable or something.

• Josh : Oh my god, you're naked!

• Josh : It's sexy when their hips and their bottoms start to move around like that. But after a while I felt like my jaw was going to drop outta my head.

• Josh : One minute you're together, you're really intimate, fucking each others' brains out. The next minute, probably never see each other again.

• Cin : There you are, I thought you'd snuck out.

  Josh : Well I was about to, but first I thought I'd just rifle through your drawers.

• Josh : [on the phone]  Hey, Cin, it's me. Look I'm outside the apartment and I think the only thing for us to do is to have sex immediately.

  [Listens for a moment, realizes he has the wrong number] 

  Josh : Oh, I'm sorry. Yes I'm sorry, look I thought you were somebody else. Okay, I'm sorry, bye.

  [hangs up] 

  Josh : Ah FUCK.

• Josh : [on the phone]  I just had sex with a total stranger.

  Cin : What, you've been out of here for 5 minutes and you've already been unfaithful?

• Cin : [on phone]  Hey come upstairs, I'm taking all my clothes off.

  Josh : I might have something to keep you warm.

  Cin : Why don't you bring it up here? I don't want to catch a chill.

• Josh : Did I say good goodbye?

  Cin : Don't think so.

  [starts undoing his trousers] 

  Cin : Not properly.

  Josh : [take off his shirts]  Okay, see you.

  [pushes Cin toward the bed, removing her robe, pushing her down, they start kissing] 

  Cin : Bye!

• Cin : [after saying 'I love you' during sex]  I didn't mean it. You're a bastard for making me say that.

  Josh : What did I do?

  [smiling] 

  Cin : I was under duress.

  [laughing] 

  Cin : It's not fair, I'm taking that back.

  Josh : No, no, you can't take it back.

• Josh : Being with someone like Cin, it's, I don't know, seductive I guess. She was open, confidant. She was never uptight. There was never any of that having to do it with the lights out.

• [During sex, internal monologues] 

  Josh : Three cups of self-rising flour. Four lemons...

  Cin : Yeah, keep going. Keep going. Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop. Please don't stop.

  Josh : A cup of milk. A teaspoon of baking po-o-wder.

  Cin : Yeah, don't stop. Don't stop. Please. Please wait for me.

  Josh : Six eggs. Eight ounces of butter.

  Cin : Keep going. Keep going.

  Josh : Desiccated coconut!

• [internal monologues] 

  Cin : I want my bed.

  Josh : I need to sleep.

  Cin : No more sex, god, I can't take it anymore.

  Josh : I hate sex.

  Cin : I just want to get into bed.

  Josh : I just want to go to sleep.

  [Outloud to each other] 

  Josh : What are you thinking?

  Cin : Nothing, you?

  Josh : Nothing.

• Josh : I don't know, there's something really exciting when you click with someone. Feeling them become aroused, feeling their hunger and their passion, like you've let something out of a cage. The noises, the heat, that moaning thing, their desire. Sometimes it's hard to let go of just like that.

• Josh : It gets away from you. It starts off as a sex thing and suddenly there's an emotional energy that you can't control. And you want more and more intimacy. But there's a price.

• Josh : Excuse me, isn't this supposed to be casual?

  Cin : It is fucking casual!

• [Josh tastes tea, makes a face] 

  Cin : No good?

  Josh : Do you boil the water?

  Cin : Listen, buster, I know how to make tea, it's just like making coffee only with tea. I made you a cup the other night, you said you liked it.

  Josh : Can I ask you something? What that before or after we had sex?

  Cin : Before, you know it was before.

  Josh : Exactly.

• Josh : It was out of control, we hardly knew each other. We fucked, we had a fight- you walk away. What were we doing back in bed together- talking?

• Josh : You think I'm getting a bit fat?

  Cin : Well how would I know, I've only known you for three days. For all I know, you could have lost fifty kilos and been a real porker a week ago.