Learning to Drive (2014)

Patricia Clarkson: Wendy

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• Wendy : At 21 years, we're on our third itch... or it's male menopause.

• Wendy : I just don't understand why men do that, wag their balls in your face.

• Wendy : My sister and I were left alone to raise our mother.

• Wendy : Excuse me, you've never, you've never met her?

  Darwan : She's from a village near where I grew up. My sister picked her out for me.

  Wendy : If my sister picked out a husband for me, he would be some dick-less.

  Darwan : Yes, you are better off... That is why you're alone and crazy.

• Darwan : Wendy... Could we go...? Somewhere we can celebrate, a dinner, please? Or just a coffee sometime, just to chat.

  Wendy : I can't.

  Darwan : I want to see you again.

  Wendy : I know. The trouble is...

  Darwan : What? What?

  Wendy : You're a good man. You are my faith.

• Wendy : I unfriended god a long time ago

• Ted : When did you ever notice anything, Wendy? On the rare case when you look up from your book or your fucking computer, you look right through me like I'm a ghost.

  Wendy : Well, I'm looking through you now and you are a prick.

• Darwan : [talking about driving]  You can't always trust people to behave properly.

  Wendy : [talking about Ted]  Ain't that the truth?

• Wendy : [about the book, the joy of sex]  Well, hand it. Let's see if there's anything we didn't cover.

  [Ted hands her the book. She reads aloud] 

  Wendy : Missionary - check. Standing - check. Rear entry

  [Both laugh] 

  Wendy : - Oh, check.

• Wendy : Let me get you some real money.

  Darwan : I don't want anything, I like to help.

  Wendy : You like to help? That is impossible. You can't be from New York.

  Darwan : Yes, I am. From Queens.

  Wendy : That's not really New York, but... You're very kind and I thank you.

• Darwan : I think it's time to discuss road rage. You must learn to be calm and relaxed. Not only to drive, But also in your life as well.

  Wendy : And how do you manage that?

  Darwan : Prayer helps me. I pray everyday.

  Wendy : I'm mad at your God too.

• Wendy : Come on in...

  Ted : You look fine.

  Wendy : Therefore I am.

• Wendy : [driving through the parking garage]  Look, here is America.

• Business Man : You don't understand how much I envy you. I love nothing more than to live a life of a mind.

  Wendy : I'd like something to take my mind off my mind.

• Darwan : Pass him. Put on your signal, give it the gas.

  Wendy : [she maneuvers smoothly] 

  Darwan : Very good. You only need a little courage, and a little gas.

• Wendy : You know there is a reason some people are alone... Because they deserve to be.

• Wendy : Darwan, thank you. I'll be hearing your voice in my head... For a long time.

  Darwan : That would please me.

• Wendy : [attempting to parallel park]  I'm lost.

  Darwan : Wendy, how do you know if you put in... Enough salt and pepper when you're making a stew?

  Wendy : You taste it.

  Darwan : Right. So what do you do when you lose track of which way the car is pointing... When you parallel park?

  Wendy : You taste it?

  Darwan : You just let the car move back a tiny bit... And see which way it goes. Taste the direction.

  Wendy : And then you adjust the seasoning?

  Darwan : Right. You adjust a little bit and a little bit. And now I've made myself hungry. I'll go home and make myself a curry.