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Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen in Closer (2004)

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Closer

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  • Dan: Didn't fancy my sandwiches?
  • Alice: Don't eat fish.
  • Dan: Why not?
  • Alice: Fish piss in the sea.
  • Dan: So do children.
  • Alice: Don't eat children either.
  • Larry: Alice, tell me something true.
  • Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.
  • Alice: Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.
  • Alice: Is it because she's successful?
  • Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.
  • Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
  • Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.
  • Larry: What does your cunt taste like?
  • Alice: Heaven.
  • Anna: We do everything that people who have sex do!
  • Larry: Do you enjoy sucking him off?
  • Anna: Yes!
  • Larry: You like his cock?
  • Anna: I love it!
  • Larry: You like him coming in your face?
  • Anna: Yes!
  • Larry: What does it taste like?
  • Anna: It tastes like you but sweeter!
  • Larry: That's the spirit. Thank you. Thank you for your honesty. Now fuck off and die, you fucked up slag.
  • Alice: I'm not a whore.
  • Larry: I wouldn't pay.
  • Dan: Didn't fancy my sandwiches?
  • Alice: Don't eat fish.
  • Dan: Why not?
  • Alice: Fish piss in the sea.
  • Dan: So do children.
  • Alice: Don't eat children either.
  • Larry: You don't know the first thing about love, because you don't understand compromise.
  • Dan: I'll always love you. I hate hurting you.
  • Alice: Then why are you?
  • Dan: What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
  • Anna: I'm sorry you're...
  • Larry: Don't say it! Don't you fucking say you're too good for me. I am, but don't say it.
  • Dan: I want Anna back.
  • Larry: She's made her choice.
  • Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
  • Larry: So where's the apology? Ya cunt.
  • Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
  • Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
  • Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
  • Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
  • Dan: And you left him, just like that?
  • Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye."
  • Dan: Supposing you do still love them?
  • Alice: You don't leave.
  • Dan: You've never left someone you still love?
  • Alice: Nope.
  • Alice: You still fancy me?
  • Dan: ...Of course.
  • Alice: You're lying. I've been you.
  • Anna: Love bores you.
  • Dan: No, it disappoints me.
  • Larry: [on a photography exhibit] What do you think?
  • Alice: It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.
  • Larry: I'm the big fat liar's boyfriend.
  • Alice: Bastard!
  • Dan: You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram.
  • Larry: Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! You writer! You liar!
  • Anna: Why is the sex so important?
  • Larry: Because I'm a fucking caveman!
  • Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
  • Alice: No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
  • Larry: There's a girl out there who calls herself Venus, what's her real name?
  • Alice: Pluto.
  • [first lines]
  • Alice: Hello, stranger.
  • Alice: How can one man be so endlessly disappointing?
  • Dan: That's my charm.
  • Dan: It's not safe out there.
  • Alice: Oh, and it's safe in here?
  • Alice: So this man comes into the café today, and he says, "Hey waitress, what are you waiting for?"
  • Dan: Funny guy.
  • Alice: So I go, "I'm waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that."
  • Dan: So what did he ask for?
  • Alice: He asked for a cup of tea with two sugars.
  • Larry: Dan, I lied to you. I did fuck Alice. Sorry for telling you. I'm just not big enough to forgive you, Buster.
  • Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
  • Alice: Why?
  • Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.
  • Larry: So Anna tell me your bloke wrote a book. Any good?
  • Alice: Of course.
  • Larry: It's about you isn't it?
  • Alice: Some of me.
  • Larry: Oh? What did he leave out?
  • Alice: The truth.
  • Anna: I don't want trouble.
  • Dan: I'm not trouble.
  • Anna: You're taken.
  • Dan: I've got to see you.
  • Anna: Tough.
  • Dan: You... KISSED me!
  • Anna: What are you - TWELVE?
  • Larry: Is he a good fuck?
  • Anna: Don't do this.
  • Larry: Just answer the question! Is he good?
  • Anna: Yes.
  • Larry: Better than me?
  • Anna: Different.
  • Larry: Better?
  • Anna: Gentler.
  • Larry: What does that mean?
  • Anna: You know what it means.
  • Larry: Tell me!
  • Anna: No.
  • Larry: I treat you like a whore?
  • Anna: Sometimes.
  • Larry: Why would that be?
  • Alice: [in the emergency room] Are we in for a long wait?
  • Dan: [indicating an old woman] She was 21 when she came in.
  • Dan: You love her like a dog loves its owner.
  • Larry: And the owner loves the dog for so doing.
  • Dan: You'll hurt her. You'll never forgive her.
  • Larry: Of course I'll forgive her. I *have* forgiven her. Without forgiveness we're savages. You're drowning.
  • Alice: I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.
  • Larry: Of course she enjoyed it. As you know, she loves a guilty fuck.
  • Larry: You shouldn't smoke.
  • Alice: Fuck off.
  • Larry: I'm a doctor. I'm supposed to say things like that.
  • Larry: I want you to tell me your name. Please.
  • [throws down a note]
  • Alice: Thank you. My name is Jane.
  • Larry: Your real name.
  • [throws down another note]
  • Alice: Thank you. My real name is Jane.
  • Larry: Careful.
  • [throws down another note]
  • Alice: Thank you. Still Jane.
  • Larry: I've about got another 500 quid here. Why don't I just give you all this money, and you tell me what your real name is, Alice.
  • [throws down the rest of his money]
  • Alice: I promise.
  • [picks up some of the money]
  • Alice: Thank you. My real name... is plain... Jane Jones.
  • Larry: I used to come here a million years ago, when it was a punk club. The stage was... Everything is a version of something else. Twenty years ago. How old were you?
  • Alice: Four.
  • Larry: Christ. When I was in flares, you were in nappies.
  • Alice: My nappies were flared.
  • Larry: Are you dressed because you thought I might hit you? What do you think I am?
  • Anna: I've been hit before.
  • Larry: Not by me!
  • Dan: Do you have any children?
  • Anna: No.
  • Dan: Would you like some?
  • Anna: Yes, but not today.
  • Dan: What were you doing in New York?
  • Alice: You know...
  • Dan: Well no, I don't. What, were you studying?
  • Alice: Stripping.
  • Alice: [Dan looks shocked] Look at your little eyes...
  • Dan: I can't see my little eyes
  • Alice: Why isn't love enough?
  • Dan: Why did you fuck him?
  • Alice: I wanted to.
  • Dan: Why?
  • Alice: I desired him.
  • Dan: Why?
  • Alice: You weren't there!
  • Dan: Why him?
  • Alice: He asked me nicely.
  • Dan: You're a liar.
  • Alice: So?
  • Dan: Who are you?
  • Alice: I'm no one!
  • [Alice spits in Dan's face. Dan raises his hand to slap her]
  • Alice: Go on, hit me. It's what you want. come on, hit me, fucker!
  • [Dan slaps Alice]
  • Dan: I saw this face, this vision; the moment you stepped into the road. It was the moment of my life.
  • Alice: This is the moment of your life.
  • Dan: You were perfect.
  • Alice: I still am.
  • Larry: A good fight is never clean.
  • Anna: Don't stop loving me. I can see it draining out of you. It's me, remember? It was a stupid thing to do and it meant nothing. If you love me enough, you'll forgive me.
  • Larry: You still pissing about on the Net?
  • Dan: Not recently.
  • Larry: I wanted to kill you.
  • Dan: I thought you wanted to fuck me.
  • Larry: Don't get lippy. I liked your book, by the way.
  • Dan: Thanks.
  • [Sniffs]
  • Dan: You stand alone.
  • Larry: I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.
  • Alice: Can I still see you?
  • [Dan stands silent]
  • Alice: Dan, can I still see you? Answer me.
  • Dan: I can't see you. If I see you, I'll never leave you.
  • Alice: What will you do if I find someone else?
  • Dan: Be jealous.
  • Larry: I'll pay you.
  • Alice: I don't need your money.
  • Larry: You have my money.
  • Alice: Thank you.

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