Side Effects

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
Depression is an inability to construct a future.

Dr. Victoria Siebert:
Everybody knows everything.

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
I'm a psychiatrist, Miss Taylor. Normally, when people hit things with their car, there are skidmarks on the pavement. A brick wall is a pretty good reason to use the brakes, turn the wheel. You didn't do that.

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
She's not depressed.

Assistant District Attorney:
Yeah. And you didn't catch it and someone died. And I didn't catch it and someone didn't go to jail. We failed.

Emily Taylor:
I'm not crazy, you know I'm not crazy.

Dr. Victoria Siebert:
She IS cured! You're a f***ing genius.

[first lines]

Female Guard:
Front door!

Prison Desk Guard:
I can't let it in unless I see it.

Upset Visitor:
I know. I know what the rules are. I'm just asking if you can make an exception.

Prison Desk Guard:
There are no exceptions. That's why we have rules.

Dierdre Banks:
[about taking beta blocker] Is it bad that I'm doing this?

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
Everyone takes them. Lawyers, musicians - people going to interviews for big jobs. It doesn't make you anything you're not. It just makes it easier for you to be who you are.

Martin's Mother:
[reading from Emily's letter] "We go to doctors with our sadness and our faith in the hope they will guide us toward health. But instead I have gone down a path toward a misery I never could have imagined. And I have taken my loved ones with me. My only hope is that no one else follows me to this place."

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
[about electroshock] It's in our best interest that you start forgetting.

Emily Taylor:
I won't be able to tell the truth if I take anymore pills.

Emily Taylor:
Imagine everything you ever wanted shows up one day and calls itself your life. And then just when you start to believe in it - gone. And suddenly it gets very hard to imagine a future. That's depression, right?

Emily Taylor:
I read somewhere that there's a difference between tears of joy and tears of rage. Is that true? It's in the chemistry, but you can't tell by looking, they all just look like tears.

[last lines]

Orderly:
How are you doing today, Emily?

Emily Taylor:
[gazing out window] Better. Much better.

Emily Taylor:
What do you doctors call faking? Malingering? Such a funny word. Girls learn to fake things at a very early age - probably around the same time that boys are learning to lie.

Dr. Jonathan Banks:
Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour.