Marvin's Room

Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio): Hey.
Lee (Meryl Streep): Look at you, you  look like a pig.
Hank: I'm workin' on an engine.
Lee: So, they don't let you shower?
Hank: Look, they told me you were here so I came, alright?

Lee: Are you behaving yourself?
Hank: They're not strapping me down anymore.
Lee: Well, don't abuse that privilege.

Hank: So how come you're visiting me?

Lee: What do you mean? I don't need a reason to visit.
Hank: How come you never visited before?
Lee: I did visited you, you were unconscious.
Hank: That doesn't count as a visit. How can it be a visit if I didn't know you were here, Mom?
Lee: I can't take responsibility for when you're conscious or unconscious. All I can do is make the effort.

Lee: Your Aunt Bessie down in Florida has Lukemia. She's not doin' so well, there's a possibily that she might die.
Hank: I didn't know I had an Aunt Bessie.
Lee: She's been to the house.
Hank: When?
Lee: Right after your dad and I got married.
Hank: Mom, I wasn't born yet.
Lee: Look, I know that I mentioned her to you-she's my sister.
Hank: Well, I didn't know you had a sister.
Lee: You know how every god damn Christmas I say to you, "looks like Bessie didn't send a card again either."
Hank: Oh yeah.
Lee: That's your Aunt Bessie, my sister, and because we're her nearest relatives they want us to get tested, 'cause they can maybe save her life and do a bone transplant or...it's only for a few weeks, doctor says it's O.K. to go.
Hank: Why would I wanna go?
Lee: Because one of us might save her life. Go, go, go, get cleaned up. I'm not going to take you like that in the car.
Therapist : Hank, isn't there something you want to say to your mother before you leave?
Lee:Yeah, but is this going to take long? Because we should go!
Hank: Mom, I'm really sorry I burnt the house down.
Lee: Is that it? Because I'm really anxious now to get on the road. submitted by STAR99401

Lee: No matches.
Hank: Mom, I gotta light the thing, come on.
Lee: Charlie, here light this for him, please.
Charlie: Cough, Cough.submitted by STAR99401

Hank: Have you ever heard of Larry Lacker?
Man: Who?
Hank: My dad, he was the greatest race car driver ever.
Man: No, I never heard of Larry Lacker.
Hank: No?
Hank(talking to Charlie):Those guys know dad.submitted by STAR99401

Lee: Hank! What the hell are you doing?
Hank: I wanna hear number one. They're doing a top 100 countdown and I wanna hear number one!
Lee: Well, what number are they on now?
Hank: 86!!!

Hank: (grabs a chip)
Lee: Hank, did your Aunt Bessie offer you a chip yet?
Bessie (Diane Keaton): Oh, well that's what they're there for.
Lee: Yeah, but he has to wait to be asked, Bessie. Put the chip back,
Hank...put it back...put back the chip.
Bessie: Lee, I put them out there for the kids.
Lee: You have to understand, he has to wait to be asked.
Bessie: Hank, would you like a chip?
Hank: No thank you Aunt Bessie, not right now.
Lee: Your Aunt Bessie offered you a chip. Now the polite thing to do would be to take one.
Hank: You know what? I don't want a chip right now!
Lee: Eat the chip or no Disney World!
Hank: You know what? I could give a FUCK about Disney World, alright!!

Bessie: We're all really glad you're here.
Hank: Yeah, we should do it again in another 17 years.
Hank: D'you ever wish you'd just die?
Aunt Bessie: Hank, don't ask that!
Hank: Why not?
Aunt Bessie: 'Cause it's rude.
Hank: You know, I haven't made up my mind about getting tested.

Aunt Bessie: What are you doing with those tools?
Hank: I was just lookin' at 'em. I'll put them back.
Aunt Bessie: Oh, I didn't think you were gonna steal them, Hank. You can have them if you want.
Hank: Really?
Aunt Bessie: Well, sure.
Hank: You're just gonna give 'em to me?
Aunt Bessie: Sure, why not.
Hank: Well, these are really cool tools.

Hank: There's this one dude on my floor, held a razor blade under his tongue for like five hours. He talked to the orderlies, he ate, and everything.
Aunt Bessie: Why, on earth, would he do that?
Hank: He was trying to break my record.
Aunt Bessie: Hank, what do you wanna be when you grow up?
Hank: I AM grown up.

Hank: So, I don't think I'm gonna get the test. What do you think about that?
Aunt Bessie: Can I ask why?
Hank: No reason.

Hank: (gives tools back) You know somethin'? Nobody does anything to be nice. They always want to get something out of it.
Aunt Bessie: And you believe that?
Hank: I mean, the first time I hear from you is when you need something from me.
Aunt Bessie: Well, why do you think I spent the last 20 years of my life down here? Because I got something out of it?
Hank: Yeah, you wouldn't have done it.
Aunt Bessie: Oh, Hank...
Hank: Or you, maybe you just wanted to hide out for a while. Maybe you thought you could never find a husband. When you're not around a nursing home can do this job for cash.
Aunt Bessie: Your mother would never put them in a home.
Hank: Why not? She doesn't give a shit about anybody.

Aunt Bessie: (carrying the tool box) Um, I'm putting this with your other things.
Hank: Why?
Aunt Bessie: Because they're yours.
Hank: 'Kay.
Aunt Bessie: Hank, you're my nephew and I love you...no matter what you decide.

Hank: Ford, huh?
Aunt Bessie: Yeah.
Hank: What year?
Aunt Bessie: Oh, would you like to drive, Hank?
Hank: Are you sure?
Aunt Bessie: Yeah, come here.
Hank: You sure you want me to drive?
Aunt Bessie: Ok, you can drive!
Hank: Alright, 'cause I'm kind of fast. I'm warning you.
Aunt Bessie: Just be careful, alright? Don't drive too fast.

Lee: You know, I know you might be a little bit afraid about having this procedure. But I hear the transplant is just like having a tooth pulled or something.
Hank: I'm not afraid. I just haven't decided yet.
Lee: You're gonna have that test. This is my sister we're talking about. We're not gonna let her die just so you can have one of your moods.

Aunt Bessie: You know this office used to be infested with bugs.
Hank: Ah, bugs don't bother me.
Aunt Bessie: No?
Hank: Well, you know they crawl out of the drain in the boy's shower. Sometimes they like hide in the junk pile in the auto shop. They like float around in the soap basins in the sink. You get used to 'em.
Aunt Bessie: I wouldn't.
Hank: There's this one dude in my room, there's 12 of us in this one room, right? This one dude, he catches bugs and puts them on like this little leash.
Aunt Bessie: A leash?
Hank: Yeah, it's a hair leash. He takes out a strand of his hair. He ties it around the bug. The other end he tacks down under his bunk. One time like he had this whole zoo of bugs walking around little circles all over the place.
My friend, he grabbed the back of his cafeteria tray and SMASHED 'em all...that was funny.

Hank: Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be...someone else.

Hank: Most of the time I just think about being some place else.
Aunt Bessie: Then why aren't you?
Hank: Hmmm?
Aunt Bessie: Why aren't you some place else?
Hank: What do you mean?
Aunt Bessie: You're the one that told me people only do what they want.
Hank: Yeah?
Aunt Bessie: So, you must want to be there.
Hank: No. No way.
Aunt Bessie: Then show them you don't need to be there, Hank.
Hank: It's not easy like that.
Aunt Bessie: I don't want you wasting your life in there, Hank.
Hank: Well, neither do I.
Aunt Bessie: Then why are you there?
Hank: Because they put me there.
Bessie: Whey did they put you there?
Hank: Because I burned down the house.
Aunt Bessie: Why did you burn down the house?

Hank: Would you come back there with me?
Aunt Bessie: Sure I would.

Lee: So, why don't you pick out something nice for your Aunt Bessie, you know?
Hank: How 'bout my bone marrow, do ya think she'd like that? submitted by Mariel

Lee: You know I think you're doing really well on this trip...sort of. Stop it. Tomorrow when we go back, everbody's gonna hear about how well you did. I said, "Stop it."
Hank: I'm not going back, I'm staying with Aunt Bessie.