Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Josh Hartnett: Donald Morton
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Quotes
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Donald Morton : People with Asperger's want contact with other people very much; we're just pathetically clueless at it, that's all.
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Donald Morton : Turns out you can't control people.
Donald Morton : Or even predict them.
Donald Morton : Numbers are different.
Donald Morton : As I used to say, you can count on them.
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Wallace : After everything she told me, and checking on your excellent record in college, I'm wondering why you choose to drive a taxi for a living.
Donald Morton : At my interview with IBM after I graduated college, they asked me what my plans were, and I said, "Probably go to McDonalds for a 12-piece McNugget and two cheeseburgers, and then do my laundry."
Wallace : Did they laugh, at least?
Donald Morton : They smiled and said they'd call me. They didn't.
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Donald Morton : I'm late, which is ironic, because I started out 9 hours and 23 minutes early.
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Donald Morton : Excuse me. Do you know when the next bus, uh 217, runs?
Man at bus stop : Sorry.
Donald Morton : I'm chasing someone.
Man at bus stop : By bus?
Donald Morton : Well, it's important.
Man at bus stop : Important enough to take the bus?
Donald Morton : Yeah. My girlfriend left me because I wanted to get married and she wanted to stay just friends.
Man at bus stop : Ah. The slower this chase, the better.
Donald Morton : Yeah.
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Gregory : Can I give you some advice?
Donald Morton : Can I humanly stop you?
Gregory : Stick with the group. Compared to us, you're a god. And, uh, next to Isabelle, which you will *never* be again, you don't come off so hot.
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Isabelle Sorenson : All this time, and you didn't call.
Donald Morton : I was gonna call.
Isabelle Sorenson : You were?
Donald Morton : Well just to tell you that I wasn't gonna call so that you wouldn't be aggravated, sitting around waiting and wondering when I was
Isabelle Sorenson : gonna call?
Donald Morton : Yeah. But in the end I figured that forcing myself into your life was probably not right. I would always do that. So the only nice thing I had left to give was just not to call.
Isabelle Sorenson : I hated you for not calling. Because you were always gonna be there, and when you weren't, it was as if you didn't love me anymore.
Donald Morton : So go home, I'll call ya.
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Isabelle Sorenson : Be my friend Donald, be my best friend, please, because I really need you. I always felt like you wanted us to get married or something.
Donald Morton : I never said that.
Isabelle Sorenson : Not with words. But instead of that, do you want to just be my friend?
Donald Morton : Without the sex?
Isabelle Sorenson : Without the pressure. My friendship is all I have to give. Do you want it?
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Isabelle Sorenson : Don't - don't condescend to these women, they're no crazier that I am.
Gracie : Yes we are!
Isabelle Sorenson : I'm weird, but I'm not strange.
Donald Morton : You're right, this isn't a matter of confusion, it's a matter of... discord.
[Inappropriate change of subject:]
Donald Morton : That's a nice sweater!
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Isabelle Sorenson : You can kiss my self esteem butt, Donald Duck. Why tell your life story, and tell only the good parts?
Donald Morton : It's Donald Morton.
Isabelle Sorenson : You're missing my point!
Donald Morton : No I'm not! I just - never know what to say.
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Donald Morton : Oh - All my life I felt like I was on the sidelines. Uh, watching the parade go by. When you're a whale, you are the parade.
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Janice : Can I give you some advice?
Donald Morton : Can I humanly stop you?
Janice : Stick with the group. Compared to us, you're a god. And, uh, next to Isabelle, which you will *never* be again, you don't come off so hot.
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[Donald calls Isabelle for the first time, but hangs up anxiously]
Donald Morton : First time better to get a machine, don't you think?
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[Donald describes his technique of prime factorization]
Isabelle Sorenson : Your process is very sexual.
Donald Morton : Primes are hot.
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Donald Morton : I save things. Because you never know, you know.
Isabelle Sorenson : You said your mom died. You did bury her?
Donald Morton : Yeah.
Isabelle Sorenson : Just checking.
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Donald Morton : You know how in the jungle, they say that some elephants have longer trunks and some of them have shorter ones. Yeah.
Isabelle Sorenson : Well, I don't care how long the elephant's trunk is... as long as his dick's okay.
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[Donald comes in front of a car in a parking lot]
Car driver : Trying to get yourself killed?
Donald Morton : Maybe later.
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Isabelle Sorenson : I can't promise you the future Donald Duck. I don't know if this is for 2 days or 20 years.
Donald Morton : Maybe it's something about us that's normal.