The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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• Meredith : [sheepish]  I'm sorry, I wouldn't have made a joke if...

  Tom Ripley : [cuts her off]  Don't be sorry. I've never been happier. I feel like I've been handed a new life.

• Meredith : Dickie?

  Tom Ripley : Hello Meredith!

  Meredith : Oh my God! I hardly even recognized you.

  Tom Ripley : Well, you spotted me so you get the reward.

• Meredith : The truth is that if you've had money your entire life, even if you despise it, which we do - agreed? - you're only truly comfortable around other people who have it and despise it.

• Meredith : I know about you and Marge and Mongi and what an unreliable rat you are. Well, Freddie said you were a rat and I thought to myself , "Ah, now I know why he travels under R."

  Tom Ripley : [pretending to be Dickie]  I've left Marge, Meredith. And Mongi. So the rat's here in Rome.

• Meredith : Marge, I don't know you, so I've got no right to - Dickie loves you. He's - I think you'll find he's on his way home to you.

  Marge Sherwood : Well, how would we know that?

  Meredith : He told me everything. I was supposed to meet him fifteen minutes ago, so - I'm going to go now, I think. God, unless he meant us to meet? That would be a little cruel, wouldn't it?

  Peter : No, we're meeting another friend. Tom Ripley.

  Marge Sherwood : Do you know Tom Ripley?

  Meredith : No! No. I've heard about him, of course, but, I didn't - meet him. No.

• Meredith : Oh, God, I've seen you, again. I've thought about you - so much.

  Tom Ripley : [pretending to be Dickie]  I've thought about you.

  Meredith : Yeah, well, when I thought about you I was mostly hating you.

• Meredith : I know you're a jazz fiend but do you absolutely hate the Opera? I've been trying to give my tickets away, it's tomorrow, but if you were prepared to be dragged...

  Tom Ripley : [pretending to be Dickie]  You could drag me.

• Meredith : Will you meet me tomorrow? Just to say goodbye properly? You know, in the daylight, so it's not just this.

  Tom Ripley : [pretending to be Dickie]  Of course, Meredith. I'm sorry. Of course, I'll meet you.

  Meredith : You should always save pain for daylight.

• Meredith : Good-bye. I'm happy to put a face to a name.