“Love the Hard Way” quotes

(2001)
Movie Love the Hard Way
Title Love the Hard Way
Year 2001
Director Peter Sehr
Genre Drama, Crime, Romance
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Plot – Jack Grace is an uncommon criminal who shares an apartment with his partner Charlie. Jack has a secret room where he keeps rare book editions and where he hides to write. One day he meets Claire, who's an intellectual and a biologist. Between them is love at first sight, but Jack feels their relationship is complex and decides to leave her. Claire does everything to conquer him back anyway.
All actors – Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, August Diehl, Pam Grier, Liza Jessie Peterson, Elizabeth Regen, Katherine Moennig, Joey Kern, Jonathan Hadary, Michael G. Chin, Ben Wang
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  • “- Jack Grace: What kind of movies do you prefer, the ones with the sad endings or the happy ones?
    - Claire Harrison: The sad ones definitely. I like movies that make me cry.”

    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
    Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison
    [Tag:like, movie, sadness]
  • “- Claire Harrison: You've been lying to me from the start haven't you?
    - Jack Grace: Look I just wanted to fuck you, that's all it was.”

    Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison
    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
  • “- Claire Harrison: He loves me.
    - Jack Grace: Oh he loves you...
    - Claire Harrison: I don't think that's anything you know about.
    - Jack Grace: Love' s just a 4 letter word...”

    Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison
    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
    [Tag:awareness, love, words]
  • “For a long time I'd been leading an unstable, risky life. I'd hung out with all sorts of people, nothing could shock me anymore. I was not impressed by the unexpected, I'd always been able to handle it.”
    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
  • “- Claire Harrison: When you said you loved me was that a lie too? Nothing was true. Just lies, just fucking lies.
    - Jack Grace: Look I don't love anyone Claire, and you're hurt cause the love story that you made up for yourself fell apart, and it's all in your mind.”

    Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison
    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
    [Tag:lies, love, mind]
  • “- Jack Grace: Some nights I go out with Charlie and I rip off foreign business men. You should turn me into the police, you'd be doing the world a favor.
    - Claire Harrison: It's too late. Someone already did. I'm an undercover agent for the RICO squad.”

    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
    Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison
  • “The following day I asked her to wait for me, I never saw her again; I was arrested a few moments later. No doubt believing it was all another lie, she'd slit her wrists with a knife. As Charlie would say, the gods are on my side; the police found her, saving her life just in time.”
    Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
    [Tag:lies, police, suicide]
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