The Natural (1984)

Glenn Close: Iris Gaines

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• Iris Gaines : You know, I believe we have two lives.

  Roy Hobbs : How... what do you mean?

  Iris Gaines : The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

• Roy Hobbs : I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.

  Iris Gaines : And then?

  Roy Hobbs : And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.

• Iris Gaines : I believe we have two lives: the one we learn with, and the one we live with after that

• Roy Hobbs : I'll take some coffee, then.

  [Hobbs finds ball and glove on couch after viewing framed photos placed on furniture] 

  Iris Gaines : It's my son's. he means the world to me. he's a great kid.

  Roy Hobbs : I'll bet he is. I'd like to meet him.

  Iris Gaines : He's coming pretty soon.

  Roy Hobbs : Is he with his father?

  Iris Gaines : No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.

  Roy Hobbs : Sure. A father makes all the difference.

  Iris Gaines : [music starts as she turns her gaze away from the conversation and whispers]  Yeah.

  [looks at son's photo, turns to Hobbs and embraces him] 

  Iris Gaines : You gotta catch a train.

  Roy Hobbs : I can stay.

  Iris Gaines : I think you'd better go.

  Roy Hobbs : Yeah. Okay.

  Iris Gaines : Where to next?

  Roy Hobbs : Boston. Sorry I missed your boy.

• Roy Hobbs : That day in Chicago; why did you stand up?

  Iris Gaines : I didn't want to see you fail.