Will: This girl is like you know, beautiful. She’s smart, she’s fun, she’s different from most of the girls I’ve been with.
Sean: So call her up Romeo?
Will: Why? So I can realize she’s not that smart—- that she’s fuckin’ boring? You know, I mean, this girl is like perfect right now, I don’t wanna ruin that.
Sean: Maybe you’re perfect right now, maybe you don’t wanna ruin that. But I think that’s a super philosophy Will, that way you can actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
*Pauses*
My wife used to fart when she was nervous. She had all sorts of wonderful little idiosyncrasies. She used to fart in her sleep. I thought I’d share that with you. One night it was so loud it woke the dog up. She woke up and went ‘ah is that you?’ And I didn’t have the heart to tell her. Oh.. God!
Will: She woke herself up?
*Both erupts in laughter*
Sean: Ah…! But Will, she’s been dead for 2 years, and that’s the shit I remember: wonderful stuff you know? Little things like that. Those are the things I miss the most. Those little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that’s what made her my wife. Oh, and she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they’re not. Ah, that’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
You’re not perfect sport. And let me save you the suspense: this girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal—- that’s what intimacy is all about. Now you could know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you’re finding out about that one is by giving it a shot. That’s something you could learn from an old fucker like me. And even if i did know I wouldn’t tell a pisser ant like you.
Will: Yeah, why not? You told me every other fuckin’ thing. You talk more than any other shrink I ever seen in my life.
Sean: You piece of shit, I didn’t say I knew how to do it.
Will: …You ever think about gettin’ remarried?
Sean: My wife’s dead.
Will: Hence the word: remarried.
Sean: She’s dead.
Will: Yeah; well, I think that’s a super philosophy, Sean. I mean, that way you could actually go through the rest of your life without ever really knowing anybody.
Sean: Time’s up.
Taken from the movie Good Will Hunting (Screenplay by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck)
Conversation between Will and Sean. From the movie Good Will Hunting.
