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Christof (Ed Harris): "We've become bored watching
actors give us phony emotions. We're tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the
world he inhabits is in some respect counterfeit there's nothing fake about Truman
himself. No scripts. No cue-cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine."
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Christof: "We find that many viewers leave him on
all night for comfort."
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Meryl (Laura Linney): "Well, for me there is no--
there is no difference between a public life and a private life. My life is my life, is
The Truman Show. The Truman Show is a lifestyle. It's a noble life. It is ...a truly
blessed life."
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Marland (Noah Emmerich): "It's all true, it's all
real. Nothing is fake, nothing you see here on this show is fake. It's merely
controlled."
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Truman (Jim Carrey): "Eat me, dammit. That's an
order!"
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Truman: "Good morning!"
Family: "Good morning."
Truman: "Oh, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and
goodnight."
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Truman: "Give me a paper there, will ya Harold?
Oh, and a, one of these. The wife. Loves her fashion mags."
Harold: "That be all for you, Truman?"
Truman: "That's the whole kit-and-kaboodle!"
Harold: "Catch you later."
Truman: "Ok, then."
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Truman: "I'm sorry ma'am. If he's in a coma he's
probably uninsurable."
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Meryl: "Hi, honey! Look what I got free at the
checkout. It's a 'Chef's Pal'. It's a dicer, grater, peeler, all in one. Never needs
sharpening, dishwasher safe!"
Truman: "Wow! That's amazing."
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Scully: "I figure we can scrape together eight
thousand--."
Meryl: "Everytime you and Marland get together--."
Truman: "We can bum around the world for a year on that!"
Meryl: "And then what Truman? You're talking like a teenager."
Truman: "Well maybe I feel like a teenager."
Meryl: "We have mortgage payments, Truman. We have car payments. What,
we're just going to walk away from our financial obligations?"
Truman: "It'll be an adventure."
Meryl: "I thought we were gonna try for a baby. Isn't that enough of an
adventure?"
Truman: "That can wait. I wanna get away, see the world! Explore!"
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Viewer in Garage: "You never see anything anyway,
though. Turn the camera, and play music, and you know the curtains move, and you don't see
anything."
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Meryl: "What are you doing down here?"
Truman: "Fixin' the mower. I saw my father today."
Meryl: "I know, your mother called. You really shouldn't upset her like
that."
Truman: "Did you want-- what did you want?"
Meryl: "I made macaroni."
Truman: "I'm not hungry."
Meryl: "Ya know, we outta throw out that mower, get one of those new 'Elk
Rotarys'."
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Truman: "Konichiwa."
Lauren: "What?"
Truman: "Oh, you take Japanese."
Lauren: "Oh, yeah right."
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Truman: "Lauren, right?"
Lauren: "Lauren, right. Right."
Truman: "I'm Truman Burbank."
Lauren: "Yeah, I know. You know, Truman, I'm not allowed to talk to
you."
Truman: "Really? Yeah, well I can understand that. I'm a pretty dangerous
character."
Lauren: "I'm sorry. It's not up to me."
Truman: "Girls have gotta be careful... You have a boyfriend, right?"
Lauren: "No. It's not that."
Truman: "Of course-- Is it-- was it Meryl? That girl that was with me.
We're not-- we don't-- we're not-- we're just-- we're friends."
Lauren: "It's nothing like that."
Truman: "It's how I look? Not your type?"
Lauren: "No."
Truman: "I like your pin. I was wondering that myself."
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Lauren/Truman: Lauren tries to tell Truman that
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Truman: "You don't tell me what's going on, I'll
report you!"
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Truman: "We gotta get outta here. You ready to
go?"
Marlan: "No, I just can't--."
Truman: "Come on, come on, come on."
Marlan: "I told you I can't."
Truman: Moans
Marlan: "Your gonna get both of our asses fired, you know that."
Truman: "Ha, ha, ha. Ok, then. Let's do it."
Marlan: "What?"
Truman: "Whatever you say, I'm game!"
Marlan: "What? What are you talking about?"
Truman: "Yes sireee! Birthday comes but once a year!"
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Truman: "Maybe I'm being set up for something. You
ever think about that, Marlan? Like your whole life is been built toward something?"
Marlan: "No."
Truman: "When you were hauling chickens in the summer for Kaiser, what was
the furthest you ever got off the island?"
Marland: "Went all over. Never found a place like this though. Look at that
sunset, Truman. It's perfect."
Truman: "Yeah."
Marlan: "That's the big guy. Quite a paint brush he's got."
Truman: "Yup... Just between me and you, Marlan. I'm going away for
awhile."
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Truman: "What's your rush?"
Meryl: "Surgery. There was that elevator disaster downtown. It was on the
news last night. This cable snapped, this elevator just plummeted down ten flights. Those
non-union workers. Just monsterous. You know that building, it's right next door to where
you work. Can you imagine if you had been in there? It's not even worth thinking about.
Anyway, I have an amputation on a young woman who was in that elevator. She's very young,
it's very sad. Anyway, wish me luck."
Truman: "I'll cross my fingers for you."
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Nurse: "May I help you?"
Truman: "Oh, uh, yes. I'm looking for my wife. Nurse Burbank. It's very
important."
Nurse: "I'm afraid that's not possible. She's in pre-op."
Truman: "Sure. Ok, fine! Can you pass along a message?"
Nurse: "I'll try."
Truman: "Can you tell her that I had to go to Fiji, and that I'll call her
when I get there?"
Nurse: "When you-- When you get to Fiji?"
Truman: "You got it."
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Guy in bar: "His father was from Chicago, wasn't
it?"
Woman in bar: "No, no, no. His dentist was from Pensacola, his father was
from Des Moines."
Man in bar: "Well how come he wants to go to Chicago?"
Waitress: "He's not going to Chicago. He's not going anywhere. He has to have it
out with Meryl."
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Truman: "I predict that in just a moment, you will
see a lady on a red bike, followed by a man with flowers, and a Volkswagen Beatle with a
dented fender."
Meryl: "Truman!"
Truman: "Look! Lady... Flowers!"
Meryl and Truman: "And..."
Meryl: "Truman, this is silly."
Truman: "There it is! There it is! There's the dented beattle! Yes! (yells)
Ha, ha...ha. Don't you wanna know how I did that? I'll tell you. There on a loop. They go
around the block. They come back. They go round again. They just go round n' round."
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Meryl: "Your upset because you wanna go to Fiji,
is that it? Ok, go. I think you should save for a few months, and then... go. There, you
happy now? I'm gonna go take a shower."
Truman: "Let's go now. I'm ready to go now. Why wait? Early bird gathers no
moss, rolling stone catches the worm, right?"
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Meryl: "Oh, oh, my! Truman, we're on fire!"
Truman: "It's ok, it's just smoke! You ok?"
Meryl: "Yes."
Truman: "You wanna do it again?"
Meryl: "No!"
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Meryl: "Why don't you let me fix you some of this
new 'Mococoa Drink'? All natural cocoa beans, from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua, no
artificial sweeteners."
Truman: "What the hell are you talking about? Who ya talking to?"
Meryl: "I've tasted other cocoas, but this is the best!"
Truman: "What the hell does this have to do with anything? Tell me what's
happening!"
Meryl: "Well, your having a nervous breakdown. That's what's
happening."
Truman: "Your part of this, aren't you?"
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Marlan: "I've been your best friend since we were
seven years old, Truman. The only way we ever made it through school, was by cheating off
each other's test papers. They were identical. But I always felt safe, knowing that. Cause
what ever the answer was, we wrong together, and we were right together."
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Marlan: "The last thing I would ever do, is lie to
you... I mean think about it, Truman. If everybody is in on it. Then I'd have to be in on
it too."
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Truman Show Anouncer: "1.7 billion were there for
his birth. 220 countries turned in for his first step. The world stood still for that
stolen kiss. And as he grew, so did the technology. An entire human life recorded on an
intricate network of hidden cameras, and broadcasted live and unedited 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, to an audience around the globe. Coming to you now from Seahaven Island,
enclosed in the largest studio ever constructed, and along with the Great Wall of China,
one of only two man-made structures visible from space, now in it's 30th great year,
it's... The Truman Show!"
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Mike: "What a week it's been. I don' know about
you, but I was on pins and needles the entire time. Hello, and good evening. I'm your
host, Mike Michaelson, and welcome to TruTalk. Our forum for issues growing out of the
show. But tonight, something special for you. A rare and exclusive interview with the
show's conceiver, and creator. So, come with us now as we go live to the Lunar Room on the
221st floor of the Omni-Cam ecosphere. That's where we'll find the world's greatest
televisionary. The designer, and architect of a world within a world that is Seahaven
Island, Christof."
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Santa Trespasser: "Truman! It's television! Yes!
Yes! I did it! I'm on The Truman Show!"
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Christof: "As Truman grew up, we were forced to
manufacture ways to keep him on the island."
Young Truman: "I'd like to be an explorer. Like the great Megellan."
Truman's Teacher: "Oh, your too late. There's really nothing left to
explore."
Christof: "Finally I came up with the concept of Kurt's drowning."
Mike: "Most effective. Truman's been terrified of the water ever
since."
Christof: "When Kurt read the synopsis for the 'Death at Sea' episode, he
was dissapointed to say the least, and I'm sure that's what caused him to break back onto
the set."
Mike: "How do you plan to explain his 22 year absense?"
Christof: "Amnesia."
Mike: "Brilliant."
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Mike: "And of course, his eagerness to leave his
mother's woumb was the very reason he was the one who was selected."
Christof: "In competition with five other unwanted preagnancies, the
casting of a show, determined by an air date, Truman was the one who arrived on-cue."
Mike: "Insidentely, Truman is the first child to be legally adopted by a
corperation?"
Christof: "That's correct."
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Mike: "The show has generated enormous revenue
now, equivalent to a gross national product of a small country."
Christof: "People forget that it takes the population of an entire country
to keep the show running."
Mike: "Since the show is on 24 hours a day without commercial
interruption,
all those staggering profits are generated by product placement."
Christof: "That's true. Everything on the show is for sale. From the
actor's wardrobe to the food products, to the very homes they live in."
Mike: "And of course all of it available in the Truman Catelog, and
operators are standing bye--."
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Mike: "Christof, let me ask you something. Why do
you think Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world, until
now?"
Christof: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.
It's as simple as that."
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Lauren: "He's not a performer, he's a prisoner.
Look at him. Look at what you've done to him."
Christof: "He could leave at any time, if his was more than just a vague
ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could
prevent him. I think what distresses you really, caller, is that ultimately, Truman
prefers his cell, as you call it."
Lauren: "Well, that's where your wrong. Your so wrong. And he'll prove you
wrong."
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Director: Is he looking at us? Jesus, do you think he
knows?
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Truman: I hereby proclaim this planet... Trumania, of
the Burbank galaxy.
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Christof: Don't look in the camera. Say something, keep
it going. Keep it going
Marlan: He's gone.
Christof: Cut transmission!
Director: Cut transmission?
Christof: Cut it!
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Head Director (Paul Giamati): He has to be on foot. He
has the world's most recognizable face. He can't disappear.
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Meryl: Truman! Truman, that's our turn-off!
Truman: I changed my mind again. What's New Orleans like this time of year?
Mardi Gras! Wooooo! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Christof: Truman. Where are you going?
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Christof: Let's get off this mass-shot. We can't see
his face. Go to the cabin cam.
Director: Cabin cam.
Christof: There. Perfect. That's our hero shot.
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Head Guy: For god's sake, Christof. The whole world is
watching. We can't let him die in front of a live audience.
Christof: He was born in front of a live audience.
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Truman: Is that the best you can do? Your gonna have
to... kill me!
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Truman: Who are you?
Christof: I am the creator, of a television show that gives hope and joy, and
inspiration to millions.
Truman: Then who am I?
Christof: Your the star.
Truman: Was nothing real?
Christof: You, were real. That's what made you so good to watch. Listen to me,
Truman. There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. Same
lies, same deceit. But in my world, you have nothing to fear.
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Christof: You can't leave, Truman. You belong here...
with me.
Lauren (watching on t.v): You can do it.
Christof: Talk to me. Say something. Well say something, goddamn it, your on
television! Your live to the whole world!
Truman: ....In case I don't see ya... good afternoon, good evening, and good
night.
