I didn't know you spoke Farsi.
ReeseMy mother's Persian. She'd speak it to me growing up.
What about your father?
ReeseHe forbade it when he was in the house.
A character in Life
Played by Sarah Shahi
Life · 97 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Life: in 49 of its 97 quotes
Most scenes with: Charlie Crews (45)
I didn't know you spoke Farsi.
ReeseMy mother's Persian. She'd speak it to me growing up.
What about your father?
ReeseHe forbade it when he was in the house.
ReeseHow long have we been awake?"
Are you sure we are awake? Maybe this is a dream? Maybe life is a dream and we wake up when we die?
Okay so we have one dead guy married to two women.
ReeseHalf a dead guy...
Half a dead guy.
ReeseAlright, I have to know... What's the deal with the fruit?
Do you know what you eat in prison?
ReeseCrap?
Crap... no fresh fruit... ever. I missed it.
ReeseI don't think it'll be fruit I'll be missing.
Yeah, you would.
[about his meeting with Reese's father] Do you want to know what he wanted?
ReeseHe always wants the same thing.
Oh, yeah. What's that?
ReeseEveryone else's unhappiness.
Reese[referring to a room with bars on the windows, locks on the doors] Can you imagine living like this?
Don't have to.
ReeseYeah.
Because of the whole prison thing.
ReeseCopy that.
About your dad....
ReeseYeah, let me make this easy on you: I spent my whole childhood trying to figure out if my dad was only mean or just plain bad. And you... I don't really understand you. I don't really like you but... you're not one of the bad guys. [Long pause] If I had your money I would be on a beach somewhere... How come you're not on a beach somewhere?
Do I look like I tan?
ReeseI'm with stupid. The arrow is pointing up ... isn't it supposed to point at the person next to you?
I guess he was admitting the truth.
ReeseThat he was stupid?
That no one knows anything.
ReeseI know he's dead!
That's not the truth, that's just a fact. Looks like a rose.
ReeseOh you're gonna tell me that's the truth?
No. That's just a dead flower.
ReeseWhat exactly is a Zen center?
It's a place where people interested in their spiritual journey sit and do nothing. Which, as it turns out is nearly impossible.
ReeseGetting buried alive part of that journey?
Not as a rule no, though every center has its own way.
Everything is in motion. And the particle's within everything are never in one place. Therefore, if it's never in one place, it never is, is it?
So I'm always in motion. I'm never in one place. I'm never here.
Just more likely to be here than not to be here.
I'm not here. You like that, don't you?
ReeseIf only that were true.
See that car... not here. That building... not here. Not actually here, just more likely to be here than to not be here. That dog... not here. That girl... not here. Too bad about that. This street... this city... everything... not here.
ReeseIf you're not here, how come I can still see you?
What would you come back as? Reincarnation. Don't limit yourself, you can choose an animal.
ReeseThis one time should be plenty, thank you.
I'd like to come back as a giant Flemish rabbit. 15 pounds of pure bunny. Or a whale! Can you imagine being a whale, thousands of feet under water? Can you imagine that?
ReeseIs it quiet down there?
So everyone going to that Zen center was just completely screwed up, right?
ReesePeople go there seeking peace. People seek what they don't have. Only troubled people seek peace.
I saw that commercial, the moth on the cotton ball.
It's a butterfly on a cloud.
Oh... now I get it. [pause, touching murder victim] Frozen solid.
ReeseDo you have to touch everything?
Who do you like? For the killing?
ReeseOh... well the research assistant had means and the animal rights group had motivation.
Married? The dead guy, was he married?
No.
Then the assistant is your killer. Human nature. Men and women working together always end up banging and most people are killed by the person they're banging.
ReeseWell, that's just not true.
Yeah, it's a fact. Come on, Crews, back me up on this.
Well, you two work together. When you have sex who's going to kill who?
ReeseIf I have sex with him you're going to kill me immediately.
[looks at Tidwell] She's an aggressive female.
[observing a beekeeper] 30% of our food supply is dependent on bees for pollination. Fruits, nuts, vegetables, all need bees.
ReeseWell, I'm pretty sure you don't need bees to make a bacon cheeseburger.
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