Callum Turner: Thomas Webb
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Quotes
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Judith Webb : [Referring to W.F] Is he old?
Thomas Webb : [Nods] And he's messy.
Judith Webb : Yeah, he always was an unmade bed of a man.
Thomas Webb : An unmade bed of a man
[smiles]
Thomas Webb : , I like that.
Judith Webb : You should, your father wrote it.
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Thomas Webb : Who was she?
W.F. Gerald : Oh, she was this woman I knew. She was taken by someone else, a dear friend. We had a profound connection, but she was his girl. It was a mess.
Thomas Webb : So what did you do?
W.F. Gerald : Oh, I left the scene of the crime.
Thomas Webb : You ran away?
W.F. Gerald : Uh, well, at the time, I called it an adventure. But hindsight turned it into something else, which is what hindsight inevitably does. Yeah, I ran away.
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Thomas Webb : You have 2 apartments?
W.F. Gerald : I'm rich, I'm a fucking Duke.
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Thomas Webb : I don't know man. I... You've experienced the world. I just live here in New York.
W.F. Gerald : New York is the world.
Thomas Webb : I haven't done much with my life.
W.F. Gerald : [Thinks a bit] You've had sex with your father's mistress. Huh! I'd say that's something.
Thomas Webb : [pause] Am I The Only Living Boy in New York?
W.F. Gerald : You are.
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W.F. Gerald : Stop drowning yourself in what you think is moral. You want to fuck Johanna.
Thomas Webb : [long pause] Yes, I think I would.
W.F. Gerald : And you said your life is boring.
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Thomas Webb : And eventually I came up with a collection of essays which I called Mary Jane vs. Everything, which I was incredibly proud of. And, you know, I showed them to my Dad.
Johanna : What did Ethan say?
Thomas Webb : "Serviceable".
Johanna : Ouch.
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Thomas Webb : I'm crazy about you.
Mimi Pastori : I'm crazy about you, but...
Thomas Webb : But don't say "as friends".
Mimi Pastori : Why? Why is that so bad?
Thomas Webb : Because pretty girls like to recruit their rejections and then call them friends.
[Mimi amazed]
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Thomas Webb : How long you been fucking my father?
Johanna : Is that kind of vulgarity *entirely* necessary here?
Thomas Webb : What kind of vulgarity would you perfer?
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Thomas Webb : [referring to his relationship] We should be together.
W.F. Gerald : "Should" is a dangerous word. I don't buy it. You want something more here.
Thomas Webb : Something more what?
W.F. Gerald : Provocative.
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Thomas Webb : She has this boyfriend, Nick and he's in that band, Fahrenheit 185...
W.F. Gerald : [interrupts] The exact temperature it takes to cook heroin. Properly.
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Mimi Pastori : So what? You're gonna use your father's affair as a confirmation of your own inadequacies?
Thomas Webb : No Mimi.
[Walks away]
Thomas Webb : I have you for that.
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W.F. Gerald : What do you want?
Thomas Webb : Well, my father stop seeing this woman.
W.F. Gerald : No, no, no, in life?... You know, in your life... You want more money?... You want more respect? What is that you want? Think about it, really think about it.
Thomas Webb : I wanna be better.
W.F. Gerald : Better?... In what?
Thomas Webb : I don't know.
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W.F. Gerald : Just make her afraid e something more than being with you in that way.
Thomas Webb : Which is?
W.F. Gerald : Mm... not being with you.
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Judith Webb : If you found out, he would come back into my life and then everything would go to shit.
Thomas Webb : Well, everything went to shit on its own, so...
Judith Webb : Yeah, I guess.
[Both smile]
