The Whale (2022)

Brendan Fraser: Charlie

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• Charlie : Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring?

• Charlie : People are amazing.

• Charlie : These assignments--they don't matter. This course doesn't matter. College doesn't matter. These amazing, honest things you wrote--they matter.

• Charlie : Who would want me to be part of their life?

• Charlie : I need to know that I have done one right thing with my life!

• Charlie : I'm sorry you had to come over, Liz.

  Liz : No, it's okay.

  Charlie : I'm sorry I always thinking I'm dying.

  Liz : Charlie, your blood pressure is 238 over 134.

  Charlie : I'm sorry.

  Liz : Go to the hospital.

  Charlie : I'm sorry.

  Liz : Stop saying you're sorry. Go the hospital. You have congestive heart failure. If you don't go to the hospital, you'll be dead by the weekend.

  [sternly] 

  Liz : You will die.

• Charlie : You don't like school?

  Ellie : Only idiots like high school.

  Charlie : But you're on track to graduate, right?

  Ellie : Counselor says I might not. I'm not worried. I'm a smart person. I never forget anything. High school is just bullshit.

  Charlie : But, Ellie, it's important. If you don't graduate, then...

  Ellie : Are you actually trying to parent me right now?

  Charlie : No, I'm... Sorry. I just... I just thought that maybe we could spend some time with each other.

  Ellie : I'm not spending time with you. You're disgusting.

  Charlie : Well, I'm a lot bigger than I was since last time you saw me.

  Ellie : No, I'm not talking about what you look like. You'd be disgusting even if you weren't this fat. You'd still be that piece-of-shit dad who walked out on me when I was eight. All because he wanted to fuck one of his students.

• Thomas : [When asked where he is from]  A little town called Waterloo?

  Charlie : You're asking me?

  Thomas : A little town called Waterloo.

• Charlie : I'm sorry.

  Liz : You say you're sorry one more time, I would shove a knife right into you, I swear to God.

  Charlie : Go ahead. What's it gonna do? My internal organs are two feet in at least.

• Ellie : [heads for the door]  I don't even know why I'm here.

  Charlie : I can pay you.

  Ellie : You want to pay me to spend time with you?

  Charlie : And I can help you with your work. It's what I do for my job. I can help you pass your class.

  Ellie : You teach online?

  Charlie : Yes.

  Ellie : Your students know what you look like?

  Charlie : I keep the camera shut off.

  Ellie : Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

• Liz : We ordered it

  [the wheelchair] 

  Liz : for a patient a few months ago. It's just been sitting around.

  Charlie : What happened to the patient?

• Charlie : This apartment smells.

  [breathes in deeply] 

  Charlie : This apartment smells. The author was just trying to save us from his own sad story. I hate everyone.

  [teary eyed] 

  Charlie : I hate everyone.

• Mary : How's it been... getting to know her?

  Charlie : She's amazing.

  [Mary chuckles] 

  Mary : You still do that.

  Charlie : What?

  Mary : That positivity.

• Charlie : Is that why you kept her from me all this time? Because you thought that I would think that you're a bad mother?

• Charlie : What was my blood pressure?

  Liz : 238 over 134.

  Charlie : Oh.

  Liz : Yeah. Oh.