As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: To hell with sex! It was better than sex! We held each other! What I needed, he gave me great.

As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets

Frank Sachs: I grew up in hell! My grandmother has more attitude than you!

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As Good as It Gets

Frank Sachs: Can you drive him?
Melvin Udall: Think white, and get serious!

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As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: [to Dr. Bettes, Spencer's wonderful new doctor] Can we get you anything else? Water, coffee, couple of female slaves?

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As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: Is it a secret what you're doing here?
Melvin Udall: I had to see you.
Carol Connelly: Because?
Melvin Udall: It relaxes me. I'd feel better sitting ouside your apartment on the curb than any other place I can think of or imagine.

As Good as It Gets
As Good as It Gets

Simon Bishop: Rot in hell, Melvin!
Melvin Udall: No need to stop being a lady. Quit worryin! You'll be back on your knees in no time!

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As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: [after Carol arrives at Melvin's apartment in the middle of the night] I'm not going to sleep with you! I will never sleep with you, never, ever! Not ever!
Melvin Udall: Well, I'm sorry, but, um... we don't open for the "no sex oaths" until 9am.

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: I can't get back to my old life. She's evicted me from my life!
Simon Bishop: Did you really like it all that much?

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: Police! Donut-munching morons, HELP ME! HELP ME!
Frank Sachs: Shh!
Melvin Udall: Assault and Battery - and you're black!

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As Good as It Gets

Simon Bishop: [Seeing Carol undressed, in only a towel, on the edge of the bathtub] Hold it.
[Turns on light, startling Carol]
Simon Bishop: I have to draw you.
Carol Connelly: Huh?
Simon Bishop: I have to draw you.
Carol Connelly: No, no no, absolutely not. I'm a lot more shy

than people think. I give off the wrong impression.
Simon Bishop: I have to. I haven't sketched anything in weeks.
Carol Connelly: Stop staring. Do a vase.
Simon Bishop: But you're beautiful, Carol. Your skin, your long neck, the back, the line of you. You're why cavemen chiseled on walls.
Carol

Connelly: [Smiles, and laughs slightly] All right, cut me a break.
[as Simon draws, she smiles, and lowers her towel, giving him a better view]
Carol Connelly: [after a brief cutaway to a different scene, returning to this one; now Carol is laying on a couch, nude, laughing, as Simon draws] I'm sorry, I don't care how you put this, we're being naughty here,

pal.
Simon Bishop: No, no, this is, this is great.This is so great. I swear to God, my hand won't even keep up. Hold it. Hold it.
Carol Connelly: But I was just turning.
Simon Bishop: But then hold that. Hold any of them.
[the camera shows a pile of sketches that Simon has made of Carol]
Carol

Connelly: OK, this?
Simon Bishop: It doesn't matter. My hand's not even bothering me. I can't - I just can't get the angle with this cast.
[Starts breaking the plaster cast off of his hand/wrist]
Carol Connelly: Oh, careful.
Simon Bishop: [Finished breaking cast off of his hand, and lets out a mock yell of

pain, then both he and Carol start laughing]

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As Good as It Gets

Simon Bishop: The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself.

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: Oh, you were talking about your dog. I thought you were referring to that colored man inside your apartment.
Simon Bishop: Uh, what color would that be?
Melvin Udall: Like uh, like thick MO-lasses.

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As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you.
Melvin Udall: Maybe we could live *without* the wisecracks.
Carol Connelly: Maybe we could.

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: I can't do this without you. I'm afraid he might pull the stiff one-eye on me.

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As Good as It Gets

Dr. Martin Bettes: My wife is Melvin Udall's publisher. She said that I was to take excellent care of this little guy because you are urgently needed back at work. What kind of work do you do?
Carol Connelly: I'm a waitress.
Beverly Connelly: In Manhattan.

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As Good as It Gets

Simon Bishop: Melvin, do you know where you're lucky? You know who you want.

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: I don't get this place. They make me buy a new outfit and let you in a housedress. I don't get it.

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As Good as It Gets

Carol Connelly: Have you ever let a romantic moment make you do something that you knew was stupid?

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As Good as It Gets

Frank Sachs: If there's a mental health organization that raises money for people like you, be sure to let me know.
Melvin Udall: Last word freak.

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As Good as It Gets

Melvin Udall: How much more you got to eat? Appetites aren't as big as your noses, huh?