Close My Eyes (1991)

Alan Rickman: Sinclair

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• Sinclair : We spend too much time thinking about the end of the world. It isn't going to happen. Today. I promise you. Not before lunch.

• Sinclair : I knew there was something extraordinary between you two, something which had to be purged. I don't want to know. There is a limit beyond which I can't go.

• Sinclair : These ashtrays are interesting, they're ridiculously large. People proclaim their importance in such a crass fashion. What will historians make of these ashtrays?

  Richard : You're interested in everything, Sinclair.

  Sinclair : These lists, ashtrays, this secretary here, you.

• Sinclair : She's lying to me, all the time. When people lie to you, you suddenly can't think of anything else.

  Richard : You've spotted little signs, have you?

  Sinclair : ...little signs... didn't need to. She's been carrying around a giant placard saying, "I've been fucking somebody else."

• Sinclair : Something tells me its the end of the party.

• Sinclair : Those fires, a typical end to summer.

  Natalie : I certainly wouldn't call this summer typical.

• Natalie : Oh, go on, you can read it, I can see you edging toward it.

  Sinclair : Just one chapter. It's the only thing that shuts me up.

• Sinclair : How's the food?

  Natalie : Food? You would ask that.

• Natalie : I love you.

  Sinclair : Of course you do.

  Natalie : Do you love me?

  Sinclair : Of course I do.

• Sinclair : Other people's children are wonderful, aren't they?

• Sinclair : I do believe, I have to confess, in spending money , not just hoarding it.