Waking the Dead (2000)

Jennifer Connelly: Sarah Williams

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• Sarah Williams : Ambition is... the ice on the lake of emotion.

  [They walk for a moment in silence] 

  Fielding Pierce : Who said that?

  Sarah Williams : I did.

• Sarah Williams : You can't be everything to me.

  Fielding Pierce : I want to be.

  Sarah Williams : Oh, dear. I love that you said that.

• Sarah Williams : I don't want to watch you turn into a cog in their machine.

  Fielding Pierce : That's so fucking condescending. Sometimes cogs can make machines run a little but better.

  Sarah Williams : Sometimes yes. Mostly they turn in circles and wear out. Then they get replaced.

• Sarah Williams : We will never be apart. We may be at each other's throats or we may be separated by 5,000 miles, but we'll never be apart.

• Sarah Williams : You have to love me too. Not an image, not an idea. And not in spite of who I am.

• Sarah Williams : You are the incarnation of your family's ambition. I am the incarnation of your family's fear.

• Sarah Williams : Our lives have taken us so far apart now. It seems wrong to think we belong together.

  Fielding Pierce : But I think it.

  Sarah Williams : I do too. I think I know why.

  Fielding Pierce : Why?

  Sarah Williams : Because it's what we want. But... so few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway.

  Fielding Pierce : They're not? Who are?

  Sarah Williams : The ones that do what they are meant to.

• Fielding Pierce : I risk throwing away everything that I've worked for. This way eventually, I can make some real substantial changes without throwing away my life on some ultimately meaningless gesture.

  Sarah Williams : Sometimes, meaningless gestures are all we have.

• Sarah Williams : It is so infuriating loving you sometimes!

  Fielding Pierce : Well, the feeling's mutual.

• Sarah Williams : You, um, still haven't told ,e how you got the idea you wanted to be a senator.

  Fielding Pierce : That's not actually what I want. I want to be the President.

  [Sarah smiles] 

  Fielding Pierce : Why are you smiling?

  Sarah Williams : Because you mean it.

• Sarah Williams : Sarah Williams: I thought wanting you was going to go away. They told me it was going to go away.