The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

Joel Edgerton: Jim Green

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Quotes 

• Jim Green : Have a great day!

  Cindy Green : That's too much pressure...

  Jim Green : Have the day you have!

• Cindy Green : I had made a mistake.

  Jim Green : We made lots of mistakes.

  Cindy Green : Yeah, we made mistakes trying to fix our mistakes.

  Jim Green : Isn't that how you know you're a parent?

  [Cindy laughs] 

  Evette Onat : You seem to forget what the object is here. You need to persuade us. Tell me, what would you do differently.

  Cindy Green : We'd make better mistakes? Different.New.

  Jim Green : [Explains]  Not the same. New mistakes.

  Cindy Green : That's... That's what we'd do.

• [first lines] 

  Jim Green : [about his legs]  Not everybody has these.

  Timothy Green : Yep.

• Jim Green : [retelling their Halloween courtship story]  I had seen a lot of pencils, but I had never seen one quite like your mom. Breathtaking. But I was too scared to even talk to her, so I wrote her a note. Yeah...

  Timothy Green : What did it say?

  Cindy Green : It said, "It feels to me that with a pencil anything is possible."

  Timothy Green : That is so true.

• Jim Green : I am not the only bad parent in this house!

  Cindy Green : Look, it's not a competition to see who can be the worst parent!

  Jim Green : No, I am saying we're both terrible at this! We are! We don't know anything!