The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)

"If I could just go back... if I could rub everything out... starting with myself."

"I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody."

"You're the brother I never had. I'm the brother you never had. I would do anything for you, Dickie."

"I really feel happy. As if I had been handed a whole new life."

"I could live Dickie's life for him."

"Well, whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it, in your head. You never meet anybody that thinks they're a bad person."

"[while planning to kill Marge] And that's the irony, Marge. I loved you. You may as well know it, Marge: I loved you. I don't know... maybe it's grotesque of me to say this now, so just write it on a piece of paper or something and put it in your purse for a rainy day. 'Tom loves me.' 'Tom loves me.'"

"You know, without the glasses you're not even ugly."

"I could fuck this ice box, I love it so much."

"Now you'll find out why Ms. Sherwood shows up for breakfast, Tom. It's not love, it's my coffee machine."

""See Venice and die," is what they say? Or is it Rome?"

"I can't write and I can't spell. That's the privilege of a first class education."

"Marge — Ripley can't ski. We'll have to teach him that too. Such low class, Marge. Does this guy know anything?"

"I love the fact that you brought Shakespeare with you and no clothes. Ermelinda says you wash the same shirt out every night. Is that true?"

"Why is it when men play they always play at killing each other?"

"Dick? Dickie? I know you can hear me. What am I doing, chasing you around...? I was going to say I would count to three and if you didn't open the door, but I won't count any more. On you. I won't count on you any more. Whatever it is, whatever you've done or haven't done, you've broken my heart. That's one thing I know you're guilty of, and I don't know why. [crying] I don't know why, I just don't know why..."

"You know, people always say that you can't choose your parents, but you can't choose your children..."

"What a waste of lives and opportunities. [abruptly turning his attention to a street musician] I'd pay that fellow $100 right now to shut up."

"Officially, there are no Italian homosexuals. It makes Michelangelo and Leonardo very inconvenient."

"Good things about Mr. Ripley? Could take some time. Tom is talented. Tom is tender... Tom is beautiful... Tom is a mystery. Tom is not a nobody. Tom has secrets he doesn't want to tell me, and I wish he would. Tom has nightmares. That's not a good thing. Tom has someone to love him. That is a good thing. Tom is crushing me. Tom is crushing me... Tom, you're crushing me!"

"I don't care for B.S. I don't care to hear it. I don't care to speak it."

"Mr. Greenleaf also feels there was a silent promise in Dickie's letter to you which he intends to honor. He intends to transfer a good part of Dickie's income from his trust into your name. He doesn't intend on giving the Italian police any information about Dickie's past. He's rather hoping that you will feel the same."

"Oh God! Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?"

"[upon seeing Tom spying on Dickie and Marge] Tommy, how's the peeping? Tommy, how's the peeping? Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy?"

"Hey, if I'm late, you should hear what her husband's saying!"

"Matt Damon as Tom Ripley"

"Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood"

"Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf"

"Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue"

"Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles"

"Jack Davenport as Peter Smith-Kingsley"

"James Rebhorn as Herbert Greenleaf"

"Sergio Rubini as Inspector Roverini"

"Philip Baker Hall as Alvin MacCarron"

"Celia Weston as Aunt Joan"