Nyad (2023)
Annette Bening: Diana Nyad
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Quotes
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Diana Nyad : Just because we are on a one way street hurtling to death doesn't mean we have to succumb to mediocrity.
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Bonnie Stoll : Your superiority complex is really screwed up, you know that?
Diana Nyad : Yeah. Well, everyone should have a superiority complex. Everyone should feel like the star of their own life.
Bonnie Stoll : Yeah, exactly. My life! My life!
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Diana Nyad : Onward.
Bonnie Stoll : Onward.
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[a CNN report announces that a much younger swimmer, Chloë McCardel, is attempting to swim from Cuba to Florida]
Diana Nyad : Are you kidding me?
Bonnie Stoll : She's... she's... she's like the baby.
Chloë McCardel : [the report cuts to Chloë's pre-swim press conference] ... and this is like getting a world record and a gold medal at the Olympic Games. No, but it's possibly harder, possibly because no one's been able to do it.
Diana Nyad : [angrily] Yeah, we know no one's been able to do it. That's the whole damn point!
Bonnie Stoll : Hey! Can you stop talking? I wanna hear.
Chloë McCardel : I will not wear a wetsuit, I will not use a shark cage...
Diana Nyad : I can't believe this. This... this is my window. She's stealing my swim! That-No, that's what I'm gonna do. God! Where's a box jellyfish when you need one?.
Bonnie Stoll : I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.
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John Bartlett : Step outside with me for a minute. Stick out your tongue. Stick out your tongue.
[Diana sticks out her tongue]
John Bartlett : You taste that?
Diana Nyad : I don't know, salt?
John Bartlett : No. Sand from the Sahara, 7,000 miles away. That's what this wind'll do.
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Diana Nyad : My last navigator screwed me, okay? He had me slamming into the surf for 14 hours straight. I would've made it if he hadn't...
John Bartlett : Well, that's on you. I looked him up, your old navigator from '78. America's Cup preppy asshole who didn't know shit about the Straits. You can have all the pedigree in the world, but if you haven't sailed here, if you haven't put in your 10,000 hours, these counter-currents, these eddies, it's like getting a freaking horse trainer to install your dishwasher.
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John Bartlett : The Gulf Stream's a raging dick. It's basically a fast-moving river in the middle of the ocean, going east when you wanna go north. If you're not exceeding its speed, then...
Diana Nyad : You're going backwards. Yes, I know.
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John Bartlett : I used to watch you on the Wide World of Sports.
Diana Nyad : Oh yeah? 'Thrill of victory, agony of defeat,' and all that shit?
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Diana Nyad : Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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Diana Nyad : Nice boat.
John Bartlett : I designed her myself. I had to re-draw the lines plans, like, 76 times. My wife thought I was freaking out of my mind, but she's perfect.
Diana Nyad : Your wife or your boat?
John Bartlett : Both of 'em.
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Diana Nyad : Well, of course you're entitled to your opinion, but I can't begin to tell you how incredibly wrong and shortsighted it is.
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Diana Nyad : I just want to say three things. One, never, ever give up. Two, you're never too old to chase your dreams. And three, it looks like a solitary sport, but it takes a team.
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Diana Nyad : I don't want an asterisk next to my life's greatest achievement.
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Diana Nyad : Why am I not allowed to say that it pisses me off to be felled by sea creatures, to be rendered powerless by stupid jellyfish?
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Bonnie Stoll : Well, maybe we need, like, a new angle. Less men in suits and more lady stuff.
Diana Nyad : What do you mean, like tampons? Not that we need those anymore, thank God.
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Diana Nyad : Laziness is contagious, Bonnie, and we're supposed to just nod along, like it's normal that everyone's just surrendered to a banal existence.
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Diana Nyad : You turn 60 and the world decides that you're a bag of bones.
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Diana Nyad : Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.
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Diana Nyad : I don't believe in imposed limitations. I don't believe in any limitations.
