Big Eyes (I) (2014)
Amy Adams: Margaret Keane
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Quotes
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Jehovah's Witness #1 : We have something to share with you about the wonderful things that God's kingdom will do for mankind.
Margaret Keane : Well, from where I'm standing, I don't see much good anywhere. Just a lot of pride and thievery and people treating each other poorly.
Jehovah's Witness #1 : Do you know what it says in Timothy 3:1-5? "In the last days, critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves."
Margaret Keane : Sounds like my ex-husband.
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Margaret Keane : I think people buy art because it touches them.
Walter Keane : Yeah, you're living in fairyland. People don't get to discover anything. They buy art because it's in the right place at the right time.
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Walter Keane : For God's sake, you've seen me paint!
Margaret Keane : No, I haven't. I always thought that I had, but it's like a mirage. It's like a mirage. From a distance, you look like a painter, but up close, there's not much there.
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Margaret Keane : Espresso? Is that like reefer?
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[first lines]
Dick Nolan : [narrating] The '50s were a grand time, if you were a man. I'm Dick Nolan. I make things up for a living - I'm a reporter.
[Margaret frantically packing things]
Dick Nolan : It's the strangest goddamn story that I ever covered. It started the day that Margaret Ulbrich walked out on her suffocating husband, long before it became the fashionable thing to do.
Margaret Keane : Come on, Janie.
[they get into the car]
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Dee-Ann : Stop that. You're better off. Between us, I never liked Frank.
Margaret Keane : You were a bridesmaid.
Dee-Ann : Exactly. That's why I couldn't say anything, but if I see you wrong off again, I will tell you.