Cosmopolis Quotes
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Eric Packer: There's a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, that would be interesting.
Eric Packer: Yeah, that would impact the world economy.
Michael Chin: The name alone, better than the dong or the kwacha.
Eric Packer: The name says everything.
Michael Chin: Yes. The rat.
Eric Packer: Yes, the rat close lower today against the euro.
Michael Chin: Yes, there's going concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.
Eric Packer: White rats, think about that.
Michael Chin: Yes, pregnant rats.
Eric Packer: Major sell-offs of pregnant Russian rats.
Michael Chin: Britain converts the rat.
Eric Packer: Joins trend to universal currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, US is establishing the rat standard.
Eric Packer: Is every US dollar redeemable for rat?
Michael Chin: Dead rats!
Eric Packer: Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.
Michael Chin: Yes, that would be interesting.
Eric Packer: Yeah, that would impact the world economy.
Michael Chin: The name alone, better than the dong or the kwacha.
Eric Packer: The name says everything.
Michael Chin: Yes. The rat.
Eric Packer: Yes, the rat close lower today against the euro.
Michael Chin: Yes, there's going concern that the Russian rat will be devalued.
Eric Packer: White rats, think about that.
Michael Chin: Yes, pregnant rats.
Eric Packer: Major sell-offs of pregnant Russian rats.
Michael Chin: Britain converts the rat.
Eric Packer: Joins trend to universal currency.
Michael Chin: Yes, US is establishing the rat standard.
Eric Packer: Is every US dollar redeemable for rat?
Michael Chin: Dead rats!
Eric Packer: Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called global health menace.
Vija Kinsky: What is the flaw of human rationality?
Eric Packer: What?
Vija Kinsky: It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.
Eric Packer: What?
Vija Kinsky: It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They won't hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. The future is always a wholeness, a sameness, we're all tall and happy there. This is why the future fails. It can never be the cool and happy place we want to make it.
Benno Levin: You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cross harmonies between nature and data. You taught me this. You made this form of analysis horribly and sadistically precise. But you forgot something along the way.
Eric Packer: What?
Benno Levin: The importance of the lopsided. The thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance - beautiful balance, equals parts, equal sides, I know this. I know you.
Eric Packer: What?
Benno Levin: The importance of the lopsided. The thing that's skewed a little. You were looking for balance - beautiful balance, equals parts, equal sides, I know this. I know you.
Vija Kinsky: People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units. A box, a screen, a keyboard, are melting into the texture of everyday life. Is this not true?
Eric Packer: Even the word computer.
Vija Kinsky: Even the word computer sounds backward and dumb.
Eric Packer: Even the word computer.
Vija Kinsky: Even the word computer sounds backward and dumb.
[first lines]
Torval: Where?
Eric Packer: I wanna a haircut.
Torval: The president's in town.
Eric Packer: We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval: You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer: Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval: United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer: Show me my car.
Torval: Where?
Eric Packer: I wanna a haircut.
Torval: The president's in town.
Eric Packer: We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval: You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer: Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval: United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer: Show me my car.
Eric Packer: For someone your age and your gifts, there's only one thing in the world worth pursuing both professionally and intellectually.
Michael Chin: What is it, Michael?
Eric Packer: The interaction between technology and capital, the inseparability.
Michael Chin: High school was the last true challenge.
Michael Chin: What is it, Michael?
Eric Packer: The interaction between technology and capital, the inseparability.
Michael Chin: High school was the last true challenge.
Didi Fancher: I read about it of course, in the papers. Or did I see it on TV?
Eric Packer: What?
Didi Fancher: What? The wedding! What! Strange you didn't tell me.
Eric Packer: It's not so strange.
Didi Fancher: Not so strange... Two great fortunes, like one of those great arranged marriages.
Eric Packer: Except I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.
Eric Packer: What?
Didi Fancher: What? The wedding! What! Strange you didn't tell me.
Eric Packer: It's not so strange.
Didi Fancher: Not so strange... Two great fortunes, like one of those great arranged marriages.
Eric Packer: Except I'm a world citizen with a New York set of balls.
Eric Packer: [while undergoing a prostate exam] Oh, that whole sad business of Judeo-Christian jogging. You were not born to run. Look at you, I know what you are. You're slouch-bodied, smelly and wet. A woman who was born to sit strapped in a chair, while a man tells her how much she excites him.
Jane Melman: [breathlessly] How come we've never spent this kind of time together?
Dr. Ingram: [finishing up] Your prostate is asymmetrical.
Jane Melman: [breathlessly] How come we've never spent this kind of time together?
Dr. Ingram: [finishing up] Your prostate is asymmetrical.
Eric Packer: You smoke since when?
Elise Shifrin: I took it up when I was 15. It's one of those things a girl picks up - tells her she's more than a skinny body that no one looks at. There's a certain drama in her life.
Eric Packer: She notices herself, then other people notice her, and she marries one of them, and they go to dinner.
Elise Shifrin: I took it up when I was 15. It's one of those things a girl picks up - tells her she's more than a skinny body that no one looks at. There's a certain drama in her life.
Eric Packer: She notices herself, then other people notice her, and she marries one of them, and they go to dinner.
