Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) Quotes

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You completed its run in 1970.

It features Elda Ferri as producer, Elisa (Italian singer); Andrea Guerra (composer) in charge of musical score, and Maurizio Calvesi as head of cinematography.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in Italy. Each episode of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) is 95 minutes long. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) is distributed by 01 Distribution.

The cast includes: Toby Regbo as James Sveck, Deborah Ann Woll as Gillian Sveck, Marcia Gay Harden as Marjorie Dunfour, and Peter Gallagher as Paul Sveck.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (film) Quotes

Toby Regbo as James Sveck

• (Toby Regbo) "I have a father, who is having plastic surgery; a mother whose marriage last barely a weekend; a sister, she's writing her memoirs at the age of 23; and you think that I'm the one who needs a shrink."

• (Toby Regbo) "Can I ask you something?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "What?"
• (Toby Regbo) "Are you gay?"

• (Life Coach) "So, you think you're not normal?"
• (Toby Regbo) "I don't think I know what normal is. New York is a funny place to be lonely."
• (Life Coach) "How so?"
• (Toby Regbo) "There's people everywhere. Everyone's got a rhythm of their own. I don't have one. I can see everyone moving to that beat, you know. Gotta go now. Gotta get there, here. Laughing, dancing, whatever, and -- all I hear is silence, like there's something way down deep inside of me, some minor defect in the most hidden recesses of the second chromosome of my DNA, that makes me -- different."

• (Toby Regbo) "I like museums because they're one of the few places left in the world where nobody's trying to sell you anything."

• (Toby Regbo) "This is what love does? Turns you into a marionette? It's like trying to have a conversation with a parrot or somebody who's been lobotomized."

• (Man Visitor) "What is the name of the artist?"
• (Toby Regbo) "He/She/It has no name. Well, He/She/It does, but He/She/It does not self-identify."
• (Woman Visitor) "And why is this?"
• (Man Visitor) "It's fascinating. He/She/It claims that identity is fluid, and should not be constrained by something as fixed as a name. You see, He/She/It believes that if an artist has a name, then people pay for that name rather than for the art. It's a way of separating the artist from the art."

• (Toby Regbo) "My mother told me that you're a -- a "Life Coach?" Is that what you call yourself?"
• (Life Coach) "Do you think what we call ourselves has anything to do with who we really are?"
• (Toby Regbo) "When it comes to professional titles, yeah. And please don't do that."
• (Life Coach) "Please don't do what?"
• (Toby Regbo) "Answer my questions with more questions."
• (Life Coach) "Does that bother you?"
• (Toby Regbo) "Yeah, it does."
• (Life Coach) "You don't want a drink?"

• (Toby Regbo) "I'm James Sveck. I'm seventeen and -- I don't like to talk much. I hate politics, organized religion and -- all of that. People always talk about their lives, but their lives just aren't that interesting. You should only say something if it's interesting or absolutely has to be said. I have nothing interesting to say."

• (Nanette) "I always wanted to learn to play the clarinet."
• (Toby Regbo) "Why didn't you?"
• (Nanette) "My mother didn't approve of ladies putting long, cylindrical objects in their mouths."

• (Toby Regbo) "I wish the whole day was like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward and -- and not yet ready to engage with the world. If it was always breakfast, I would be fine."

• (Toby Regbo) "I read somewhere that Americans have completely misinterpreted Freud 'cause it was mistranslated from the original German."
• (Life Coach) "You could say the same thing about the Bible. Are you interested in psychology?"
• (Toby Regbo) "I think it's a self-indulgent examination of one's life that supersedes the actual living of said life."
• (Life Coach) "Did you say "sad life?""
• (Toby Regbo) "No, no, no, "said" life."
• (Life Coach) "I-I thought you said "sad" life."
• (Toby Regbo) "No, I-I said "said.""

Deborah Ann Woll as Gillian Sveck

• (Deborah Ann Woll) "Henrich Maria says that naming a child then mispronouncing their name is a subtle and insidious form of child abuse."
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "Well, darling, that's just not my style. If I were going to abuse you, there'd be nothing subtle about it."

• (Deborah Ann Woll) "$1200 on a lap dance?"
• (Marcia Gay Harden) "Well, two. $600 a striptease."
• (Toby Regbo) "Consecutively or -- or simultaneous?"
• (Deborah Ann Woll) "Shut it, James."

• (Deborah Ann Woll) "How do you spell facsimile?"
• (Toby Regbo) "Use your spell check."
• (Deborah Ann Woll) "I already did but it's not working 'cause I'm so far off."
• (Toby Regbo) "F-A-C-S-I-M-I-L-E."
• (Deborah Ann Woll) "There's no X?"
• (Toby Regbo) "No."
• (Deborah Ann Woll) "Well, then why is "fax" with an X?"
• (Toby Regbo) "Because it's a cruel, senseless world."

Peter Gallagher as Paul Sveck

• (Peter Gallagher) "You can't order a salad as a main course."
• (Toby Regbo) "Why not?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "It's not manly."
• (Toby Regbo) "I'll keep that in mind."

• (Peter Gallagher) "I'd like to ask you a question."
• (Toby Regbo) "I don't have sufficient energy to stop you."

Marcia Gay Harden as Marjorie Dunfour

• (Marcia Gay Harden) "What should I do?"
• (Toby Regbo) "I hate it when people say that. Most of the time they know exactly what to do. Ask yourself what you really want."

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