Asteroid City (2023)

Scarlett Johansson: Midge Campbell

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• Midge Campbell : I mean, I think I know now what I realize we are. Two catastrophically wounded people who don't express the depths of their pain because we don't want to. That's our connection.

  Augie Steenbeck : Uh-huh.

• Midge Campbell : I do a nude scene. You want to see it?

  Augie Steenbeck : Huh? Did I say yes?

  Midge Campbell : You didn't say anything.

  Augie Steenbeck : Uh, I mean yes. My mouth... My mouth didn't speak.

• Augie Steenbeck : I don't like the way that guy looked at us.

  Midge Campbell : What guy?

  Augie Steenbeck : The alien.

  Midge Campbell : Oh. How did he...? How did he looked at us.

  Augie Steenbeck : Like we're doomed.

  Midge Campbell : Maybe we are.

  Augie Steenbeck : Ah!

  Midge Campbell : What d'you just do?

  Augie Steenbeck : I burned my hand on a Quickie Griddle.

  Midge Campbell : Why?

  Augie Steenbeck : It's not clear.

• Midge Campbell : We're just two catastrophically wounded people who don't express the depths of our pain because... we don't want to.

• Sandy Borden : You were very good in the one about the tramp in the brothel...

  Midge Campbell : Thank you.

  Sandy Borden : ...who gets amnesia...

  Midge Campbell : Thank you.

  Sandy Borden : ...and becomes a pediatrician. You were very authentic.

  Midge Campbell : That's actually maybe my favorite character I've ever played.

  Sandy Borden : I don't know why nobody else liked it.

  Midge Campbell : Oh. Yes. Me, neither. Thank you. Some people liked it.

  Sandy Borden : Oh, I'm sure. I did. Who hit you?

• Midge Campbell : I prefer to play abused, tragic alcoholics, and one day I'll probably be discovered lifeless in an overflowing bathtub with an empty bottle of sleeping pills spilled all over the floor, but... the sad thing is I'm actually a very gifted comedienne.

• Midge Campbell : I wish I felt guilty at least, but I don't experience that emotion, if I understand it correctly. I've played it, of course.

  Augie Steenbeck : So you're saying you never feel guilty in real life?

  Midge Campbell : Not to my knowledge.

• Midge Campbell : Are you married?

  Augie Steenbeck : I'm a widower, but don't tell my kids.

• Midge Campbell : It says he shouts and screams. So shout and scream.

• Augie Steenbeck : Is she a Ghost?

  Midge Campbell : It's not Clear.

• Midge Campbell : She relies on her beauty like a Wobbly Crutch.

• Midge Campbell : What's your name, Understudy?

• Augie Steenbeck : The things you could have seen!

  Midge Campbell : I've seen it.

• Midge Campbell : I'm your Idol!