Manchester by the Sea Quotes

  • Lee Chandler: I can't beat it. I can't beat it. I'm sorry.

  • Patrick: What happened to your hand?

    Lee Chandler: I cut it.

    Patrick: Oh, thanks. For a minute there, I didn't know what happened.

  • Patrick: Fuck my fucking ass.

  • Patrick: You're a fucking asshole.

  • Patrick: Who you gonna shoot, you or me?

  • Patrick: I got two girlfriends and I'm in a band.

  • Janine: [comforting Lee] It's all right. I'm going to get you some ice, baby. It's okay

  • Lee Chandler: I can't be his guardian.

  • Dr. Bethany: But it's not a good disease.

    [pause]

    Joe Chandler: What is a good disease?

  • Lee Chandler: Do you actually have sex with these girls?

    Patrick: Well, we don't just play computer games.

  • Patrick: Uncle Lee, are you fundamentally unsound?

  • Suzy Chandler: Daddy?

    Lee Chandler: Yes, honey.

    Suzy Chandler: Can't you see we're burning?

    Lee Chandler: No, honey. You're not burning.

  • [Lee and Patrick are walking on the street, having a heated argument which includes profanity. We see a pedestrian who overhears their conversation]

    Manchester Pedestrian: Great parenting.

    Lee Chandler: Fuck you! Mind your fucking business, fucking asshole!

  • Lee Chandler: And if you're gonna freak out every time that you see a frozen chicken, I think we should go to the hospital. I don't know anything about this.

  • Randi Chandler: I said a lot of terrible things to you.

    Lee Chandler: No...

    Randi Chandler: But I... I know you never... Maybe you don't wanna talk to me.

    Lee Chandler: It's not that...

    Randi Chandler: Let... let me finish. However... My heart was broken - cause it's always gonna be broken, and I know yours is broken, too - but I don't have to carry it. I said things that... I should fuckin' burn in hell for what I said to you.

    Lee Chandler: No. No-no. No, no, no-no-no. Randi, no.

    Randi Chandler: I'm just sorry.

    Lee Chandler: It's... it's... I... I can't expl... I can't...

    Randi Chandler: I love you! Maybe I shouldn't say that.

    Lee Chandler: No, you can say that. I'm sorry, I've gotta go.

    Randi Chandler: I just... We couldn't have lunch?

    Lee Chandler: I'm really sorry, I don't think so, but thank you for saying everything. It's just said...

    Randi Chandler: You can't just die!

    Lee Chandler: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. And I'm... I... I want you to be happy, and I'm...

    Randi Chandler: Honey... I see you walking around here, and I just wanna tell you...

    Lee Chandler: I would want to talk... I would want to talk to you, Randi. Please, I-I-I... I'm... I'm...

    Randi Chandler: Lee, Lee, you've gotta... gotta know what... Okay, I don't wanna torture you.

    Lee Chandler: This is not... You're not... You're not torturing me.

    Randi Chandler: I just wanna tell you... that I was wrong.

    Lee Chandler: No. No. Nope. You don't understand, there's nothin'... there's nothin' there. There's nothin' there.

    Randi Chandler: That's not true. That's not true.

    Lee Chandler: You don't understand.

    Randi Chandler: Yes, I do.

    Lee Chandler: You don't see it. And I don't know what to s... I know you understand me. I-I-I gotta go. Sorry.

    Randi Chandler: [after he walks away] I'm sorry.

  • Lee Chandler: You know, I've seen a school of sharks tear a boat to pieces like it was made of cardboard because some kid threw a band-aid in the water.

    Patrick: Oh, yeah...

    Lee Chandler: Yeah, he did! Sometimes the only way to keep them off is to throw the kid directly in the ocean to distract them!

    Patrick: Shut up. Sharks don't even swim in schools!

    Lee Chandler: Huh? He says sharks don't swim in schools. Smart kid.

  • Patrick: You were a tremendous help.

    Lee Chandler: I didn't ask to sit down there.

    Patrick: You can't make small talk like every other grown-up in the world?

    Lee Chandler: No.

    Patrick: You can't talk about boring bullshit for half an hour? "Hey, how about those interest rates?" "Hey, I lost my Triple A card." Like everybody else?

    Lee Chandler: No, sorry.

    [pause]

    Patrick: You're a fucking asshole.

  • Lee Chandler: What was that guy like?

    Patrick: He was very Christian?

    Lee Chandler: You know we're Christian too. Right?

    Patrick: Yes, I know that.

    Lee Chandler: You are aware that Catholics are Christians?

    Patrick: Yes, I am aware of that.

  • Lee Chandler: Are you going to Godspell?