No Night Is Too Long (2002 TV Movie)
Lee Williams: Tim Cornish
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Quotes
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Tim Cornish : Without me, without me, every day is a misery. With me, with me... no night is too long.
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[Last lines]
James Gilman : God help anybody who tries to love you.
Tim Cornish : Isabel is the only person that I've loved.
James Gilman : God help her then!
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Tim Cornish : [about accompanying Ivo to Alaska] Just this once?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : No, I can't.
Tim Cornish : Why not?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Because I can't afford to.
Tim Cornish : Just this summer, I mean... I mean, surely that won't bankrupt you!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Look, it's too late, I'd be letting people down.
Tim Cornish : But letting me down's alright, is it?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Will you give it a rest, Tim?
Tim Cornish : What the hell am I supposed to do by myself all summer?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : You'll find something!
Tim Cornish : [Takes the book Ivo is reading and throws it] You can't just leave me!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Retrieving the book] For God's sake!
Tim Cornish : It's just not fair!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Do you have any idea what you sound like?
Tim Cornish : Jesus Christ, some fucking fossil in Alaska is more important than me-!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Grabs Tim's face, cutting him off] Nothing is more important than you! I wouldn't be without you for a second if I could help it. I want you to come!
[pauses to look fondly at Tim]
Dr. Ivo Steadman : I love you.
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Tim Cornish : "I love you." I wish to God he hadn't said it. I should have said, "I love you, too." I didn't. Because as soon as he said it, I... I felt nothing. And that's how it'd always been for me.
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Dr. Ivo Steadman : Why didn't you write?
Tim Cornish : Sorry...
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Not a single letter!
Tim Cornish : I should have written, I know...
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Not one!
Tim Cornish : [Snapping] Yeah, I'm sorry!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Remorseful] It's my fault, having to go off like that. It hasn't been much of a holiday for you, has it?
[Takes Tim's hand]
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Look, it will get better, I promise.
Tim Cornish : Yeah...
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Fondly] Tim... I've really missed you.
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[Ivo is getting dressed after making love with Tim]
Tim Cornish : Where are you off to?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : A lecture on ancient sedimentary rocks.
Tim Cornish : In a leather jacket?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : 'Bye. Be good.
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Tim Cornish : I actually met someone who's actually very... enthusiastic about Alaska.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Oh yeah? Who was it?
Tim Cornish : Some cute little first-year. He came onto me in the library. You don't mind, do you?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Sorting through items in a shopping bag, deliberately ignoring Tim] Iodine...
Tim Cornish : ...Do you?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Plasters...
Tim Cornish : See, the opportunity presented itself and... well, anyway, I thought I'd mention it, you know?
[Kisses his neck]
Tim Cornish : I know you'd like us to be honest with each other.
[Ivo punches Tim in the face]
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Dr. Ivo Steadman : We *are* going to behave ourselves, aren't we?
Tim Cornish : Of course.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Still, it shouldn't be too difficult. There aren't any cute little first years skipping around, they're all about seventy. But then again...
[Ivo leaves, locking Tim in their stateroom]
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Tim Cornish : Why do you still want to be with me?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Because I don't believe you know what you want.
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Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Plopping next to Tim on the couch] I'll miss you.
Tim Cornish : It's only one night.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : What will you do?
Tim Cornish : I don't know, um...
[laughs]
Tim Cornish : The usual. Revision... more revision.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Why don't I cancel? I could... tell them that I'm sick.
Tim Cornish : Ivo, it's only one night. Now go, you'll be late.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Kisses Tim's shoulder] I'll call you tonight.
Tim Cornish : Have a good time!
Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Sarcastically] A conference about SEAgel solids. I can't wait.
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Dr. Ivo Steadman : [Talking to Tim in his office] ... So how can I help you? Have you decided to take up paleontology?
Tim Cornish : Why were you spying me the other night?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : I wasn't.
Tim Cornish : Yes you were. You were standing at the window and you were watching me with my girlfriend.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Your girlfriend?
Tim Cornish : One of them, yeah.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Why how many have you got?
Tim Cornish : Why did you do that?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : ...Why did you follow me into the lift?
Tim Cornish : [sighs, sits on Ivo's desk and toys with a fossil] Is this the kind of thing that you study?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Well done.
[Takes the fossil from Tim]
Dr. Ivo Steadman : That's about two hundred and fifty million years old.
Tim Cornish : Where did you get it?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Alaska.
Tim Cornish : Wow, Alaska. What were you doing there?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Lecturing. They have cruises there for people who are interested in that sort of thing.
[Shares a gaze with Tim]
Dr. Ivo Steadman : ... Anyway. I've got a stack of work, so if there's nothing I can do for you...
Tim Cornish : ...Right. Well, I'll be off then.
Dr. Ivo Steadman : Yeah...
Tim Cornish : [Awkward pause] ... Yeah.
[Turns to leave]
Dr. Ivo Steadman : By the way...
Tim Cornish : What?
Dr. Ivo Steadman : ...Happy Christmas.
[Smirks]