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Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan in City of Angels (1998)

Meg Ryan: Dr. Maggie Rice

City of Angels

Meg Ryan credited as playing...

Dr. Maggie Rice

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Quotes22

  • Maggie Rice: I'm not afraid. When they ask me what I liked the best, I'll tell them, it was you.
  • Maggie Rice: I don't understand a God who would let us meet, if there's no way we could ever be together.
  • Seth: Why do people cry?
  • Maggie: What do you mean?
  • Seth: I mean, what happens physically?
  • Maggie: Well... umm... tear ducts operate on a normal basis to lubricate and protect the eye and when you have an emotion they overact and create tears.
  • Seth: Why? Why do they overact?
  • Maggie: [pause] I don't know.
  • Seth: Maybe... maybe emotion becomes so intense your body just can't contain it. Your mind and your feelings become too powerful, and your body weeps.
  • Maggie Rice: Do you feel that?
  • Seth: Yes.
  • Maggie Rice: And that? How's it feel? Tell me what it feels like.
  • Seth: I can't.
  • Maggie Rice: Try.
  • Seth: Warm. Aching.
  • Maggie Rice: It's okay. We fit together.
  • Seth: I know.
  • Maggie Rice: We were made to fit together.
  • Maggie: Why do you wear the same clothes all the time? Why won't you give me your phone number? Are you married?
  • Seth: No.
  • Maggie: Are you homeless?
  • Seth: No.
  • Maggie: Are you a drummer?
  • Maggie Rice: Those eyes. The way he looked right... right down into me.
  • Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway.
  • Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like?
  • Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.
  • Maggie Rice: Sweet, juicy, soft on your tongue, grainy like a sugary sand that dissolves in your mouth. How's that?
  • Seth: It's perfect.
  • Seth: You're an excellent doctor.
  • Maggie: How do you know?
  • Seth: I have a feeling.
  • Maggie: That's pretty flimsy evidence.
  • Seth: Close your eyes. It's just for a moment.
  • [touches her hand]
  • Seth: What am I doing?
  • Maggie: You're... touching me.
  • Seth: Touch. How do you know?
  • Maggie: Because, I feel it.
  • Seth: You should trust that. You don't trust it enough.
  • Seth: Let's go somewhere.
  • Maggie: Where?
  • Seth: I don't care.
  • Maggie: What do you wanna do?
  • Seth: Anything.
  • Maggie: What happened?
  • Seth: Free will.
  • Maggie: Are you a visitor?
  • Seth: Yes.
  • Maggie: Well, visiting hours have been over since 8.
  • Seth: Wh-Why do they have that?
  • Maggie: What?
  • Seth: Hours. Doesn't it help the patient to be visited?
  • Maggie: Well, who are you visiting? Mr. Messinger?
  • Seth: Right now?
  • Maggie: Yeah.
  • Seth: You.
  • Maggie Rice: I wait all day, just hoping for one more minute with you, and I don't even know you.
  • Maggie: No dying now, Mr. Messinger. Not until you give me Seth's phone number.
  • Nathaniel Messinger: Seth knows no fear, no pain, no hunger, he hears music in the sunrise. But he'd give it all up, he loves you that much.
  • Maggie Rice: I don't understand.
  • Nathaniel Messinger: He can fall, he can give up his existence as he knows it, he can give up eternity and become... one of us.
  • Maggie Rice: Are you here? I want to see you. Let me see you. Just stay. Just stay until I fall asleep.
  • Seth: Am I too late?
  • Maggie Rice: Too late?
  • Seth: Jordan?
  • Maggie Rice: I couldn't marry Jordan. I'm in love with you.
  • Maggie Rice: We have our whole lives together. You and me. Mr. and Mrs. Plate.
  • Maggie Rice: Got a message for me?
  • Seth: I already gave it to you.
  • Maggie Rice: Well, did you use my pager? 'Cause I usually don't get my messages unless you beep me.
  • Seth: You've definitely been beeped.
  • Seth: I was there in the stairwell... when you cried for your patient. And I touched you, remember?
  • Maggie Rice: Why are you doing this?
  • Seth: Because I'm in love with you.
  • Seth: Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
  • Maggie Rice: It's weird to see you again.
  • Seth: Weird is nice.

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