La La Land (2016)
Emma Stone: Mia
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Quotes
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Mia : People love what other people are passionate about.
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Sebastian : Alright, I remember you. And I'll admit I was a little curt that night.
Mia : "Curt?"
Sebastian : Okay, I was an asshole. I can admit that. But requesting "I Ran" from a serious musician, it's just, it's too far.
Mia : My Lord, did you just say "a serious musician?"
Sebastian : I don't think so.
Mia : Can I borrow what you're wearing?
Sebastian : Why?
Mia : Because I have an audition next week. I'm playing a serious firefighter.
Sebastian : So you're an actress? I thought you looked familiar. Have I seen you in anything?
Mia : Uhh, the coffee shop on the Warner Brothers lot, that's a classic.
Sebastian : Oh I see.
Mia : Yeah.
Sebastian : So you're a barista? And I can see how you could then look down on me from all the way up there.
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Sebastian : I thought you wanted me to do this, it just sounds like now you don't want me to do it.
Mia : What do you mean, I wanted you to do this?
Sebastian : This is what you wanted for me.
Mia : To be in this band?
Sebastian : To be in a band, to have a steady job, you know to be... you know.
Mia : Of course, I wanted you to have a steady job so that you could take care of yourself and your life and you could start your club.
Sebastian : Yeah, so I'm doing that, so I don't understand like why aren't we celebrating?
Mia : Why aren't you starting your club?
Sebastian : You said yourself no one wants to go that club. No one wants to go to a club called 'Chicken on a Stick.'
Mia : So change the name!
Sebastian : Well, no one likes jazz, not even you!
Mia : I do like jazz now because of you!
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Mia : George Michael!
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Mia : No, Jamal. You be trippin'.
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Mia : [singing] And here's to the fools who dream / Crazy as they may seem. / Here's to the hearts that break. / Here's to the mess we make.
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Mia : Maybe I'm one of those people that has always wanted to do it, but it's like a pipe dream for me, you know? And then you... you said it, you-you changed your dreams, and then you grow up. Maybe I'm one of those people, and I'm not supposed to. And I can go back to school, and I can find something else I'm supposed to do. 'Cause I left to do that, and it's been six years, and I don't wanna do it anymore.
Sebastian : Why?
Mia : Why what?
Sebastian : Why don't you want to do it anymore?
Mia : 'Cause I think it hurts a little bit too much.
Sebastian : You're a baby.
Mia : I'm not a baby.
Sebastian : You are.
Mia : I'm trying to grow up.
Sebastian : You're crying like a baby.
Mia : Oh, my god.
Sebastian : And you have an audition tomorrow at 5:30. I'll be out front at 8:00 a.m. You'll be out front or not, I don't know.
Mia : How did you find me here?
Sebastian : The house in front of the library.
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Mia : Where's my car?
Sebastian : You gotta put that thing to your chin.
Mia : [indicating her key fob] This?
Sebastian : Yeah. Yeah, it makes your head into an antenna, so...
Mia : Ooh.
Sebastian : I think it gives you cancer, but you find your car faster.
Mia : What?
Sebastian : I mean, you don't live long, but you get where you're going quicker, so it all evens out.
Mia : That sounds terrible.
Sebastian : Just a suggestion.
Mia : You're... you're a real, um... what's the word I'm looking for?
Sebastian : Knight in shining armor?
Mia : Weirdo.
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Mia : I've been to a million auditions, and the same thing happens every time, where I get interrupted because someone wants to get a sandwich. Or I'm crying, and they start laughing. Or there's people sitting in the waiting room, and they're... and they're like me but prettier and better at the... because maybe I'm not good enough.
Sebastian : Yes, you are.
Mia : No... no, maybe I'm not.
Sebastian : Yes, you are.
Mia : Maybe I'm not.
Sebastian : You are.
Mia : Maybe I'm not.
Sebastian : You are.
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Mia : It's over.
Sebastian : What is?
Mia : It's over.
Sebastian : What?
Mia : All of this. I'm done embarrassing myself. I'm done. I'm done. Nobody showed up.
Sebastian : So what?
Mia : [crying] I can't pay back the theater. This is so... I'm gonna go home for a while.
Sebastian : I'm gonna... I'll come see you tomorrow.
Mia : No, I'm going "home" home.
Sebastian : This is home.
Mia : No, it's not anymore.
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Mia : [During her audition] My aunt used to live in Paris. I remember when she used to come home, and tell us... these stories about being abroad. And... I remember... she told us once that she jumped into the river once. Barefoot. She smiled.
[sings]
Mia : Leapt without looking, / And tumbled into the Seine. / The water was freezing. / She spent a month sneezing, / But said she would do it again. / Here's to the ones who dream, / Foolish as they may seem. / Here's to the hearts that ache. / Here's to the mess we make.
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Mia : [Sebastian has followed her to Nevada] Why did you come here?
Sebastian : Because I have good news.
Mia : What?
Sebastian : Amy Brandt, the casting director...
Mia : Yeah?
Sebastian : She was at your play, and she loved it. And she loved it so much that she wants you to come in tomorrow and audition for this huge movie that she's got.
Mia : I'm not going to that. I'm not going to that.
Sebastian : What?
Mia : That one's gonna be... no. That one's gonna be...
Sebastian : I'm sorry?
Mia : That will kill me.
Sebastian : [shouting] WHAT?
Mia : What? What? Shh! Stop.
Sebastian : NO!
Mia : Shh! Shh, shh. You have to be quiet.
Sebastian : If you want me to be quiet, then you have to make sense.
Mia : We're in a neighborhood.
Sebastian : If you want me to be quiet, you have to make some god damn sense.
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Sebastian : I just feel that people, when they say that they, you know, hate jazz... they just... they don't have context, they don't know where it comes from. You know? Jazz was born in a little flophouse in New Orleans, and it just, because people were crammed in there, they spoke five different languages, they couldn't talk to each other. The only way they could communicate was with jazz.
Mia : Yeah, but what about Kenny G?
Sebastian : What?
Mia : What about Kenny G? I mean, what about elevator music? You know, jazz music that I know?
Sebastian : What about it?
Mia : From my life?
Sebastian : Mm-hmm?
Mia : I just, I mean, I-I find it relaxing.
Sebastian : It's not relaxing. It's not. It's not. Sidney Bechet shot somebody because they told him he played a wrong note. That's hardly relaxing.
