Another Woman Quotes

  • Marion: I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.

  • Ken: I accept your condemnation.

  • Paul: Do you remember some years ago when I showed you something I'd written, do you remember what you said?

    Marion: No, I don't remember. I was probably just trying to be truthful.

    Paul: Yes, I'm sure. You said, "This is overblown, it's too emotional, it's maudlin. Your dreams may be meaningful to you, but to the objective observer, it's just so embarrassing."

    Marion: I said that?

    Paul: Exactly your words. So I tried not to embarrass you any more.

  • Marion: Then I saw my mother's favorite poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo." There were stains on the page, which, I believe were her tears. They fell across the last line, "For here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life."

  • [first lines]

    Marion: [voiceover] If someone had asked me when I reached my fifties to assess my life, I would have said that I had achieved a decent measure of fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Beyond that, I would say I don't choose to delve.

  • [last lines]

    Marion: [voiceover] I closed the book, and felt this strange mixture of wistfulness and hope, and I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost. For the first time in a long time, I felt at peace.

  • Marion: Fifty. I didn't think anything turning thirty. Everybody said I would. Then they said I'd be crushed turning forty, but they were wrong. I didn't give it a second's thought. Then they said that I'd be traumatized when I hit fifty, and they were right. I'll tell you the truth, I don't think I've ever recovered my balance since turning fifty.

    Hope: Oh, gee, fifty's not so old.

    Marion: No, I know it isn't, but... you just suddenly look up and see where you are.

    Hope: You're in a good spot, aren't you?

    Marion: Well, I thought I was. But then there's chances gone by you can't have back again.

    Hope: Like what?

    Marion: I don't know. Maybe it would be nice to have a child.

    Hope: You really think that?

    Marion: I do. I never said it before, but I do.

  • Marion: But you want nothing around to even remind you of mother?

    Marion's Father: Well, there are times when even an historian shouldn't look at the past.

    Laura: Do you think at your age you can find someone and fall in love again?

    Marion's Father: One hopes at my age to build up an immunity.

  • Mark: There's no privacy left. Last week, Lydia and I were at home, it was a Sunday morning.

    Lydia: Mark?

    Mark: This is true. And we started kissing...

    Lydia: Mark!

    Mark: And the next thing, you know, we were on the floor and I was having...

    Lydia: Are you crazy? You know, he's drunk.

    Mark: On the kitchen floor, on the living room floor.

    Lydia: I got to admit it was a surprise.

    Mark: Did it not happen that way? So, the door opens and the Superintendent, he has the key, barges in...

    Lydia: Stop it.

    Mark: Some kind of plumbing leak and we are in in flagrant...

    Lydia: You know what this one does, he gets up stark naked and he says, "Mr. Fanducci, this is not the pipe that needs fixing."

    Mark: I was quick, Ken. Very quick. Could you have come up with anything quick, Ken?

    Ken: No.

    Mark: That was grace under pressure.

  • Marion: Would you ever think of making love to me on the living room floor?

    Ken: Do you want me to?

    Marion: I don't know. Would you want to?

    Ken: I don't know. Actually, I don't think I see you as the hard wood floor type.

    Marion: No?

  • Lynn: You're such a perceptive woman. How can you not understand his feelings?

  • Hope: I really can't believe I'm saying this. Lately, I've had odd feelings about my marriage. Its as if its been - coming apart. And I've been in just so many ways denying it. I must admit, I have moments when I question whether I made the right choice.

  • Kathy: You can stop staring. I'm not a ghost!

  • Larry: Yes, he is my friend and I love him. But, he's a prig. He's cold and he's stuffy. Can't you see that?

  • Marion: Don't make something romantic sound infantile...

    Ken: Hey, but it's the same level of maturity as sex on the floor.

    Marion: Well, we might as well have it on the floor, we certainly don't have it in bed anymore.

    Ken: I don't believe we're having this discussion.

    Marion: Why have you stopped sleeping with me?

    Ken: We are simply going through a less active period, that's all. Its not uncommon.

    Marion: Why? I just want to know why?

    Ken: Why don't we just go to bed.

    Marion: There was a time that we were dying to be together.

    Ken: Marion, you're still the most desirable woman that I know.

    Marion: But, we won't make love tonight, because, they'll be some excuse. I hadn't realized how much of that had slipped away, until today.

  • Hope: I guess we all imagine what might have been. But that was a long time ago.

  • Hope: She can't allow herself to feel. And the result is she's lead this cold, cerebral life. And its alienated everyone around her.

  • Hope: She's pretended for so long that everything's fine, but, you can see clearly how, how lost she is.

  • Hope: I guess you can't keep deep feelings closed out forever, you know. So, I just don't want to look up when I'm her age and find that my life is empty.

  • Marion: I feel sorry for you Ken, because, in your way, you've been as lonely as I have.

    Ken: Have you been lonely?

    Marion: At least I've come to recognize it.

  • Marion's Father: Now that my life is drawing to a close, I only have one regret - regret that the one I chose to share my life with is not the one I loved the most deeply.

Extended Reading
  • Yvonne 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    4- Is it because of Gena, this time Woody Allen has a taste of Cassavetes' particularly charming "Premiere Night"? Different from the image of actresses who are blinded by reality and dreams (on stage and off stage) under the lens of Old John, Gena here is more mature and independent (University Philosophy Professor), but she still has a notorious cross to bear. The scheduling of the Dreamland section is smooth and well-rounded, and it is worthy of five stars. The miss under the bridge hole is also classic.

  • Drew 2022-03-20 09:02:36

    If you allow yourself to feel it, the world will be the same as it is now, so if you feel that you are sensitive and fragile, it is actually a good thing, better than those who do not feel numb. In addition, because of this movie, I encountered a jazz oil painting Hope by Bilbao Song and Gustav Klimt.