Youth (I) (2015)
Rachel Weisz: Lena Ballinger
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Quotes
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Lena Ballinger : You know, sometimes when I'm asleep at night, he watches me... and last night he stroked my cheek for the first time in my life. Only I wasn't asleep... I was pretending to be asleep.
Mick Boyle : Parents know when their children are pretending to be asleep.
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Lena Ballinger : And what does she do?
Fred Ballinger : The most obscene job in the world.
Lena Ballinger : She is a prostitute?
Lena Ballinger : Worse. She is a pop star.
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Lena Ballinger : You know, he said the reason he couldn't conduct the Simple Songs was because my mother's the only person on Earth who could sing them.
Mick Boyle : He said that?
Lena Ballinger : He said that to the queen's emissary.
Mick Boyle : It took him eighty years to finally say something romantic, and he goes and says it to the queen's emissary.
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Lena Ballinger : You are victim of your own apathies, Daddy.
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Lena Ballinger : Julian's an ass because... I'm really good in bed.
Fred Ballinger : I know.
Lena Ballinger : What do you mean you know?
Fred Ballinger : You're my daughter. And in all modesty, I was a wonder between the sheets.
[Lena laughs hysterically]
Fred Ballinger : It's true.
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Luca Moroder : It is an amazing feeling climbing, you know? A real sense of freedom.
Lena Ballinger : All I feel is fear.
Luca Moroder : That is an amazing feeling too, you know?
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Lena Ballinger : Bathtubs are more dangerous than Everest.
Luca Moroder : How true.
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[after much resistance, Fred tells Lena what Julian said about Paloma Faith]
Lena Ballinger : You didn't have to tell me that.
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Luca Moroder : Hello. I am a mountaineer. And I teach climbing. I give lessons here at the hotel.
Lena Ballinger : Oh...
Luca Moroder : And you? What do you do?
Lena Ballinger : I have two jobs. I'm a daughter and I also an assistant to my father.
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Luca Moroder : Would you like to try climbing?
Lena Ballinger : You know, I can make a man go wild in bed if I want.