Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Kate Winslet: Clementine Kruczynski

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• Clementine : This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.

  Joel : I know.

  Clementine : What do we do?

  Joel : Enjoy it.

• Clementine : Joely?

  Joel : Yeah Tangerine?

  Clementine : Am I ugly?

  Joel : Uh-uh.

  Clementine : When I was a kid, I thought I was. I can't believe I'm crying already. Sometimes I think people don't understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don't matter. So, I'm eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, "You can't be ugly! Be pretty!" It's weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.

  Joel : [kisses Clementine]  You're pretty.

  Clementine : Joely, don't ever leave me.

  Joel : You're pretty... you're pretty... pretty...

• Joel : [in the house on the beach]  I have to go. I have to catch my ride.

  Clementine : So go!

  Joel : I did. I thought maybe you were a nut... but you were exciting.

  Clementine : I wish you had stayed.

  Joel : I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

  Clementine : Well I came back downstairs and you were gone!

  Joel : I walked out, I walked out the door!

  Clementine : Why?

  Joel : I don't know. I felt like a scared little kid, I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.

  Clementine : You were scared?

  Joel : Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation, I think.

  Clementine : Was it something I said?

  Joel : Yeah... you said "so go." With such disdain, you know?

  Clementine : Oh, I'm sorry.

  Joel : It's okay.

  [Walking Out] 

  Clementine : Joely? What if you stayed this time?

  Joel : I walked out the door. There's no memory left.

  Clementine : Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one.

  [Joel comes back. Clementine walks down the stairs towards him] 

  Clementine : Bye Joel.

  Joel : I love you.

  Clementine : Meet me... in Montauk...

• [last lines] 

  Joel : I can't see anything that I don't like about you.

  Clementine : But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.

  Joel : Okay.

  Clementine : [pauses]  Okay.

• Joel : I had a really nice time last night.

  Clementine : Nice?

  Joel : I had the best fucking night of my entire fucking life, last night!

  Clementine : Thaaaat's better!

• Clementine : You don't tell me things, Joel. I'm an open book. I tell you everything, every damn, embarrassing thing.

• Joel : Hi.

  Clementine : Hi. Didn't figure you'd show your face around me again. I guess I thought you were... humiliated. You did run away, after all.

  Joel : I just needed to see you.

  Clementine : Yeah?

  Joel : I'd like to, um... take you out, or something.

  Clementine : You're married.

  Joel : Not yet, not married. No, I'm not married.

  Clementine : Look man, I'm telling you right off the bat, I'm high-maintainance, so... I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage, or whatever it is you've got goin' there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me.

  Joel : Okay.

  Clementine : Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.

  Joel : I remember that speech really well.

  Clementine : I had you pegged, didn't I?

  Joel : You had the whole human race pegged.

  Clementine : Hmm. Probably.

  Joel : I still thought you were gonna save my life... even after that.

  Clementine : Ohhh... I know.

  Joel : It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.

  Clementine : Remember me. Try your best; maybe we can.

• Clementine : I'm Clementine. Can I... borrow a piece of your chicken?

  Joel : And then you just took it... without waiting for an answer. It was so intimate; like we were already lovers.

• Clementine : Sometimes I don't think people realize how lonely it is to be a kid. Like... you don't matter.

• Clementine : I wish you'd stayed.

  Joel : I wish I'd stayed, too. NOW I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd... I wish I'd stayed... I do.

• Joel Barish : I can't see anything I don't like about you.

  Clementine : But you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.

  Joel Barish : Okay.

  Clementine : Okay.

• [Joel calls Clem on the telephone] 

  Clementine : What took you so long?

  Joel : I just walked in.

  Clementine : Do you miss me?

  Joel : Oddly enough, I do!

  Clementine : You said "I do" - I guess that means we're married!

  Joel : I guess so!

• Joel : I can't remember anything without you.

  Clementine : Aw, that's... very sweet, but try.

• Clementine : You don't tell me things, Joel. I'm an open book. I tell you everything... every damn embarrassing thing. You don't trust me.

  Joel : Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

  Clementine : I don't do that. I want to know you.

  [angry] 

  Clementine : I don't constantly talk! Jesus! People have to share things, Joel...

  Joel : Mmmhhmmm...

  Clementine : That's what intimacy is. I'm really pissed that you said that to me!

  Joel : I'm sorry... I just, my life isn't that interesting.

  Clementine : I want to read some of those journals you're constantly scribbling in. What do you write in there if you don't have any thoughts or passions or... love?

• Clementine : Face it, Joely, you're freaked out because I was out late without you - and in your little wormy brain you're trying to figure out: did she fuck someone tonight?

  Joel : No, see Clem. I assume you fucked someone tonight. Isn't that how you get people to like you?

• Joel : [on tape recording]  And the whole thing with the hair - it's all bullshit.

  Joel : I really like your hair.

  Clementine : Thank you.

• Clementine : You know me, I'm impulsive.

  Joel : That's what I love about you.

• Clementine : Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.

• Clementine : Joel, hide me in your humiliation!

• Patrick : Baby, what's going on?

  Clementine : I don't know. I don't know! I'm lost! I'm scared! I feel like I'm disappearing. My skin's coming off! I'm getting old! Nothing makes any sense to me!

  Patrick : You're not getting old.

  Clementine : Nothing makes any sense! Nothing makes any sense!

• Clementine : [after discussing the names for all the different hair colors there must be]  I apply my personality into paste.

  Joel : Oh, I doubt that very much.

  Clementine : Well, you don't know me so... you don't know, do you?

  Joel : Sorry, I was... just trying to be nice.

  Clementine : Yeah... I got it...

  [She hides behind the seat for a minute] 

  Clementine : ... I'm Clementine, by the way.

  Joel : I'm Joel.

  Clementine : Hi, Joel.

  [they shake hands] 

  Clementine : No jokes about my name... Nooo, you wouldn't do that. You were trying to be nice.

  Joel : I don't know any jokes about your name.

  Clementine : Huckleberry Hound.

  Joel : I don't know what that means.

  Clementine : Huckleberry Hound? What are you, NUTS?

  Joel : It's been suggested.

• Clementine : You're not a stalker, or anything, right?

  Joel : I'm not a stalker. YOU'RE the one that talked to me, remember?

  Clementine : That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.

  Joel : Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.

• Clementine : I don't need nice. I don't need myself to be it, and I don't need anybody else to be it at me.

• Joel : Wait!

  Clementine : ...What?... What do you *want* Joel?

  Joel : I don't know! I want you wait for just a... a while.

• Clementine : Wish me a happy Valentine's Day when you call. That'd be... nice!

• Clementine : [whispers]  Meet me... in Montauk...

• Clementine : Let me show you something... come on...

  Joel : I think I heard a crack.

  Clementine : It's not gonna crack, or break, or... it's so thick!... Show me which constellations you know.

  Joel : Um... oh... I don't... know any.

  Clementine : Show me which ones you know!

  Joel : Okay... okay... oh! There's Osidius.

  Clementine : Where?

  Joel : Right there... see? Sort of a swoop and a cross, Osidius the Emphatic.

  Clementine : You're full of shit, right?

  Joel : Nope. Osidius, right there, swoop and cross.

  Clementine : Shut the fuck up!

• Clementine : [Clementine has dyed her hair orange]  You like? To match my sweatshirt, exactly.

  Joel : Ahaaahhhhh! Ohhhhhh! I like it!

  Clementine : You do?

  Joel : You look like a tangerine!

  Clementine : Hmmm, Clemen-teen the tangerine.

  Joel : Juicy 'n seedless.

  Clementine : I like that.

• Clementine : Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.

  Joel : I remember that speech really well.

  Clementine : I had you pegged, didn't I?

  Joel : You had the whole human race pegged.

  Clementine : Hmm. Probably.

  Joel : I still thought you were gonna save my life... even after that.

  Clementine : Ohhh... I know.

  Joel : It would be different, if we could just give it another go-round.

  Clementine : Remember me. Try your best; maybe we can.

• Clementine : My embarrassing admission is, I really like that you're nice right now. I mean, I can't tell from one moment to the next what I'm gonna like, but right now. - I'm glad you are.

• Joel : I love being bathed in the sink - such a feeling of security.

  Clementine : I've never seen you happier, baby Joel.

• Joel : My God, there's people coming out of your butt.

  Clementine : There is?

• Clementine : It's a pretty name, though. It really is nice. It's, uh, it means "merciful". Right? Clemency?

  Clementine : Although it hardly fits. I'm a vindictive little bitch, truth be told.

• Clementine : I would like you to call me. Would you do that? I'd like it.

• Clementine : Drink up, young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.

• Clementine : Look man, I'm telling you right off the bat I'm high maintenance. So I'm not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is ya got goin' on there. If you wanna be with me, you're with me.

  Joel : Okay.

• Clementine : I apply my personality in a paste.

• Clementine : You married?

  Joel : No.

  Clementine : Let's move into this neighborhood!

  Joel : I do sorta live with someone though.

  Clementine : Male or female?

  Joel : What? Female... female...

  Clementine : At least I'm not barking up the wrong tree!

• [Clementine comes in drunk and collapses on the couch. Joel has been sitting up and reading; his voice is angry] 

  Joel : It's 3 o'clock.

  Clementine : I kinda sorta wrecked your car.

  Joel : You were driving drunk. It's pathetic.

  Clementine : I was a little tipsy. Don't call me pathetic.

  Joel : Well, it *is* pathetic. And it's fucking irresponsible. You could've killed somebody. I don't know, maybe you did kill somebody. Should we turn on the news and see? Should I check the grille to see if there's children or small animals?

• Clementine : I'm gonna marry you... I know it!

  Joel : Ummm... okay...

• Clementine : You're really nice... God, I have to stop saying that!

• [Clementine and Joel have broken into an empty house on the Montauk beach] 

  Joel : I think we should go.

  Clementine : No, it's our house! Just for tonight...

  [she looks at an envelope on the counter] 

  Clementine : ...we are David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I prefer to be Ruth, but I'm flexible.

• [Clementine is leading Joel out onto the frozen Charles River] 

  Joel : I don't know. What if it breaks?

  Clementine : What if? Do you really care right now?

• Joel : I'm so ashamed.

  Clementine : It's okay, you're a little kid.

• Clementine : My name is Clementine Kruczynski. I'm here to erase Joel Barish. He's boring. Is that enough reason to erase someone?

• Clementine : What are you, NUTS?

  Joel : It's been suggested.

• Clementine : HEY! Lets go out dancing! You want to go out to Montauk with me?

  Patrick : Montauk?

  Clementine : Yeah, NO! Come out to Boston with me!

  Patrick : Sure, we can go next weekend.

  Clementine : NO! Now! Now! I have to go see the frozen Charles NOW!

• Clementine : Look, I'm sorry if I came off a little nutso, I'm not really.

  Joel : That's okay, I really didn't think you were.

• Clementine : [Clem arrives home to see Patrick waiting for her]  Patrick, get the fuck awa...

  Patrick : -What's wrong?

  Clementine : Get the fuck away from me!

  Patrick : Do you wanna talk about it?

  Clementine : NO! Get the fuck away!

• [Clementine is trying to comfort baby Joel by showing him her crotch] 

  Clementine : My crotch is still here, just as you remembered it.

  Joel : Yuck!

• Joel : Don't call me Antoine. My name is Wally.

  Clementine : Yes, I know, but how can a woman love a man with a name like Wally?

• Joel : I don't see anything I don't like about you.

  Clementine : But you will! But you will, and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.

  Joel : Okay.

• Clementine : Ouch. Ow my ass.

• Clementine : I'm fucking crawling out of my skin. I should've left you at the flea market.

• Clementine : I'm always anxious, thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, taking advantage of every possibility, making sure I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have.

• Joel : You seem nice, so...

  Clementine : Oh, now I'm nice? Oh, God. Don't you know any other adjectives?

• Clementine : I'd make a fucking good mother! I love children, I'm creative and smart, and I'd make a fucking great mother!

• Joel : Clem, let me drive you home.

  Clementine : Get out of my face, faggot!

• Clementine : Joel, you're like an old lady or something.

  Joel : What are you like? A wino?

  Clementine : A wino? Jesus, are you from the '50s or something? A wino?

• Joel : There's someone here. He stole your underwear.

  Clementine : I don't see anyone.

• Clementine : This is a memory of me, the way you wanted to have sex on the couch after you looked down at my crotch.

• Clementine : This is sort of warped.

  Joel : I'm scared. I want my mommy!