Old Fashioned (2014)

Rik Swartzwelder: Clay

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• Clay : I guess I wasn't destined for greatness.

  Amber : I think the world has enough greatness. Not enough goodness. That's my theory.

• Clay : When did treating women with respect become the joke?

  Brad : Oh, come on.

  Clay : You want to laugh at believing love can be something sacred? Go ahead. Laugh.

• Amber : You don't believe that there's a right person out there for each of us? A soul mate?

  Clay : I don't believe that our job is in looking. It's in becoming. Once you are the right person... when you're ready... you know? Then hopefully, God willing...

• Amber : Buy me flowers. Make me a card. I don't need you to make me your community service project. I need you to dance with me. That was okay, wasn't it?

  Clay : Yes.

  Amber : Clay, I know it's in you. I know it. Flatter me. Excite me. Sweep me off my feet. Tell me I'm the most attractive woman you've ever seen even if you don't really mean it. I don't care.

  Clay : Lie to you?

  Amber : Exactly. A normal date.

  Clay : I've wasted a lot of words. I don't want to waste any more.

  Amber : On me. Oh you're scoring all kinds of points.

  Clay : It's not about scoring points.

  Amber : I'm sorry. That's right. It's about red-yellow-green.

• Aunt Zella : This is the day the Lord has made.

  Clay : I will rejoice and be glad in it.

• Amber : When the jar is full, I know I have enough.

  Clay : For what?

  Amber : To get far enough away if I need to. Make a fresh start. Go where the wind takes me. Follow the warm fuzzies.

  Clay : Life isn't just warm fuzzies.

  Amber : It isn't just rules either, religiouso... And besides, it's how I ended up here. I hit empty on County Line Road."

  Clay : You're kidding me. You just packed your car full of everything you owned and started driving until you ran out of gas?

• Clay : Old things have passed away; behold all things become new.

  Amber : That's in there?

• Clay : "It's easier to keep holidays than commandments," Benjamin Franklin.

  Amber : That's true. I definitely prefer holidays.

  Amber : "Our lives begin to end the moment we remain silent about things that matter"

  Clay : Who said that?

  Amber : Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Amber : [Repeated lines]  Hey there, Stress Boy.

  Clay : Hey there, Pretty Girl.

• Clay : There was... something. A sense. Like a voice but...

  Amber : You hear voices?

  Clay : No, not like real... Wait.

  Amber : What?

  Clay : Shhh. There it is again. A whisper. It's telling me... it's telling me something about you!

  Amber : I'm serious. Tell me more about all of this.

  Clay : I can't explain it. Still. Even now. It's not easy to put into words without sounding like a crazy person.

  Aunt Zella : Ask her to go to church with ya sometime.

  Clay : Thank you, Aunt Zella.

  Amber : You go to church?

  Clay : Not much anymore. I did.

  Aunt Zella : The people there weren't perfect, so he felt out of place.

• Amber : Is that what made you change?

  Clay : It wasn't one big thing. It was more like a lot of small things that added up. And that book didn't help much. Sometimes I wish I'd never opened it at all.

  Amber : Why?

  Clay : Once I read it for myself, I couldn't make fun of it anymore. Maybe someone else could, but I couldn't. I felt accountable for the first time in my life.

• Clay : [Opening lines; voice-over]  I thought I would always be alone.

  Amber : [Voice-over]  Why?

  Clay : [Voice-over]  It's what I deserve.

  Amber : [Voice-over]  Oh, that's a bunch of hooey.

  [laughs]