How to Build a Girl (2019)

Beanie Feldstein: Johanna Morrigan

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• [last lines] 

  Johanna Morrigan : So, what do you do when you've built yourself, only to realize you've built yourself with the wrong things? You rip it up and start again. Build it up and tear it down. Endlessly, repetitively, unceasingly. Invent, invent, invent. What will eventually be you? One day, you'll marvel over what you did. Marvel over how you tried to keep the loud, drunken, laughing, cutting, panicking, unbearably present secret of yourself - when really you were just about as secret as the moon. And as luminous under all those clothes. And how, like all the best quests, you did it all for a girl. You.

• Johanna Morrigan : [nervous on her first flight]  They say flying is the safest mode of transport, but surely that's walking?

• Johanna Morrigan : Jeeves. These boots need a lift to the station.

  Pat Morrigan : Darling I would love too, but there's been a bit of a development.

  Johanna Morrigan : [Johanna and Pat step outside the house to an empty driveway]  Where's the van?

  Pat Morrigan : You've inspired me, love. I sold it.

  Angie Morrigan : [Angie leans out of an upstairs window]  You've sold it?

  Pat Morrigan : Where the bloody hell did you appear from?

  Angie Morrigan : I manifest when someone sells my fucking car.

  Johanna Morrigan : Why did you sell it?

  Pat Morrigan : To do this.

  [Pat grabs a box of demo records and fliers] 

  Pat Morrigan : Here, look, you.

  Angie Morrigan : Unbelievable. Not again Pat

  Pat Morrigan : [shows the fliers]  I got these done and all.

  Johanna Morrigan : Mayonnaise... you called yourself Mayonnaise?

  Angie Morrigan : You sold the cow for magic beans.

• Johanna Morrigan : If you think I'm funny and I can write then... then it can't be harder to learn about than the periodic table and I got a 98% on that test. I only failed on Kr. Krypton is my Kryptonite.

• Johanna Morrigan : I shall feast upon my misery. And jam.