Movie quotes
MELVIN
Don't be pessimistic. It's not
your style. Okay... Here I
goes... Clearly a mistake.
(this is hell
for him)
I have this -- what? Ailment...
And my doctor -- a shrink... who
I used to see all the time... he
says 50 or 60 percent of the time
a pill can really help. I hate
pills. Very dangerous things,
pills. "Hate," I am using the
word "hate" about pills. My
compliment is that when you came
to my house that time and told me
how you'd never -- well, you were
there, you know... The next
morning I started taking these
pills.
CAROL
(a little confused)
I don't quite get how that's a
compliment for me.
Amazing that something in Melvin rises to the occasion --
so that he uncharacteristically looks at her directly --
then:
MELVIN
You make me want to be a better
man.
Carol never expected the kind of praise which would so
slip under her guard. She stumbles a bit -- flattered,
momentarily moved and his for the taking.
CAROL
That's maybe the best compliment
of my life.