The Last Five Years Quotes
- Jamie: [speaking] Can we have two minutes where you don’t contradict everything I say? Can we… Cathy! Please? Two minutes? Then it’s your turn. You can say whatever you want. - View Quote Details on Jamie: [speaking] Can we have two minutes where you don’t…
- Cathy: I’m a part of that… aren’t I? - View Quote Details on Cathy: I’m a part of that… aren’t I?
- Jamie: If I didn’t believe in you
We wouldn’t be having this fight
If I didn’t believe in you
I’d walk out the door and say
“Cathy, you’re right” - View Quote Details on Jamie: If I didn’t believe in you
We wouldn’t be having… - Jamie: Will you share your life with me
For the next ten minutes?
For the next ten minutes?
We can handle that - View Quote Details on Jamie: Will you share your life with me
For the next… - Jamie: I’m never worried to walk the wire
I won’t do anything just half-assed - View Quote Details on Jamie: I’m never worried to walk the wire
I won’t… - Cathy: I think you’re really gonna like this show
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t suck - View Quote Details on Cathy: I think you’re really gonna like this show
I’m… - Cathy: [speaking] All right, so we’ll be there soon. Are you hungry? Sick of me yet? - View Quote Details on Cathy: [speaking] All right, so we’ll be there soon. Are…
- Cathy: I am not always on time
Please don’t expect that from me
I will be late
But if you can just wait
I will make it eventually - View Quote Details on Cathy: I am not always on time
Please don’t expect… - Cathy: I swear to God, I’ll never understand
How you can stand there, straight and tall
And see I’m crying and not do anything at all - View Quote Details on Cathy: I swear to God, I’ll never understand
How you… - Jamie: You never noticed how the wind had changed
Cathy: Goodbye until tomorrow!
Jamie: I didn’t see a way we both could win
Cathy: Goodbye until I’m done thanking God - View Quote Details on Jamie: You never noticed how the wind had changed
Cathy: Goodbye… - Cathy: Love, the midget, the stripper, Wayne the snake
And Mrs. Jamie Wellerstein
That’s me! - View Quote Details on Cathy: Love, the midget, the stripper, Wayne the snake
And Mrs… - Jamie: Everyone tells you that the minute you get married
Every other woman in the world suddenly finds you attractive
Well, that’s not true
It only affects the kind of women you always wanted to sleep with
But they wouldn’t give you the time of day before - View Quote Details on Jamie: Everyone tells you that the minute you get married
Every… - Jamie:If you had a pierced tongue, that wouldn’t matter
If you once were in jail or you once were a man
If your mother and your brother had “relations” with each other
And your father was connected to the Gotti clan
I’d say, “Well, nobody’s perfect” - View Quote Details on Jamie:If you had a pierced tongue, that wouldn’t matter
If you… - Jamie: You never saw how far the crack had opened
You never knew I had run out of rope
And I could never rescue you
All you ever wanted
But I could never rescue you
No matter how I try
All I could do was love you hard and let you go. - View Quote Details on Jamie: You never saw how far the crack had opened… - Cathy: I mean, you made it to Ohio
Who knows where else we can go? - View Quote Details on Cathy: I mean, you made it to Ohio
Who knows… - Jamie: Take a breath, take a step
Take a chance
Take your time
Have I mentioned today how lucky I am
To be in love with you? - View Quote Details on Jamie: Take a breath, take a step
Take a chance
Take your… - Jamie: I’m breaking my mother’s heart
The longer I stand looking at you
The more I hear it splinter and crack
From ninety miles away - View Quote Details on Jamie: I’m breaking my mother’s heart
The longer I stand… - Jamie: And I will be there, ripe and crawling
If fucking Random House stops calling - View Quote Details on Jamie: And I will be there, ripe and crawling
If fucking… - Jamie: And sewn into the seams
Were forty-one seasons of dreams
Dreams that you could feel coming real
And that very dress, so the papers swore
Was the dress a girl in Odessa wore
On the day she promised forevermore
To love a young man named Schmuel
Who only one day before
Had knocked at her kitchen door. - View Quote Details on Jamie: And sewn into the seams
Were forty-one seasons of dreams
Dreams… - Jamie: And if we make it till then
Can I ask you again for another ten?
And if you in turn agree to the next ten minutes
And the next ten minutes ’til the morning comes
Then just holding you might compel me to ask you for more - View Quote Details on Jamie: And if we make it till then
Can I ask… - Cathy: And I guess he was cute
And I guess he was sweet
And I guess he was good in bed - View Quote Details on Cathy: And I guess he was cute
And I guess he… - Cathy: Then he gets on the mule train to Jamie-land
Handful after handful of Doritos
Circling the apartment, logging miles - View Quote Details on Cathy: Then he gets on the mule train to Jamie-land… - Cathy: You don’t have to get a haircut
You don’t have to change your shoes
You don’t have to like Duran Duran
Just love me - View Quote Details on Cathy: You don’t have to get a haircut
You don’t have… - Jamie: Except you’re sitting there eating your corn beef sandwich
And all of a sudden this pair of breasts walks by
And smiles at you and you’re like
“That’s not fair” - View Quote Details on Jamie: Except you’re sitting there eating your corn beef sandwich
And… - Cathy: Then I get on my knees and pray I can state in my next bio
I’m never gonna go back to Ohio! - View Quote Details on Cathy: Then I get on my knees and pray I… - Jamie: My people have suffered for thousands of years
And I don’t give a shit! - View Quote Details on Jamie: My people have suffered for thousands of years
And… - Cathy: Son of a bitch, I guess I’m doing something right - View Quote Details on Cathy: Son of a bitch, I guess I’m doing something…
- Cathy: Goodbye until tomorrow
Goodbye until my feet touch the floor
And I will be waiting
I will be waiting!
Goodbye until tomorrow
Goodbye until the rest of my life - View Quote Details on Cathy: Goodbye until tomorrow
Goodbye until my feet touch the floor
And… - Jamie: “I should take out my teeth and go to bed
I’m sitting here with talking clocks instead” - View Quote Details on Jamie: “I should take out my teeth and go to… - Cathy: I could chew on tinfoil for a spell
I can get a root canal in hell
But it wouldn’t be as swell as this summer is gonna be - View Quote Details on Cathy: I could chew on tinfoil for a spell
I can… - Jamie: Hey, hey Shiksa goddess
I’ve been waiting for someone like you - View Quote Details on Jamie: Hey, hey Shiksa goddess
I’ve been waiting for someone… - Jamie: Alright, the panic recedes,
Alright, everyone bleeds
Alright, I get what I need
And nobody needs to know - View Quote Details on Jamie: Alright, the panic recedes,
Alright, everyone bleeds
Alright, I get what… - Jamie: Don’t we get to be happy, Cathy?
At some point down the line, don’t we get to relax? - View Quote Details on Jamie: Don’t we get to be happy, Cathy?
At some point… - Cathy: Why am I working so hard?
These are the people who cast Linda Blair in a musical
Jesus Christ, I suck, I suck, I suck, I suck! - View Quote Details on Cathy: Why am I working so hard?
These are the people… - Cathy: One day we’re just like Leave It To Beaver - View Quote Details on Cathy: One day we’re just like Leave It To Beaver
- Cathy: Goodbye until tomorrow
Goodbye until I recall how to breathe
And I have been waiting
I have been waiting for you - View Quote Details on Cathy: Goodbye until tomorrow
Goodbye until I recall how to breathe
And… - Cathy: I open myself
I open myself one stitch at a time
Finally yes, finally now
Finally someone takes me away
Finally free, finally he
Can cut through these strings and open my wings! - View Quote Details on Cathy: I open myself
I open myself one stitch at a… - Jamie: If you like to drink blood, I think it’s cute - View Quote Details on Jamie: If you like to drink blood, I think it’s…
- Cathy: I could protect and preserve
I could say “no” and “goodbye”
But why, Jamie, why?
I want to be your wife
I want to bear your child
I want to die knowing I had a long, full life in your arms
That I can do
Forever with you - View Quote Details on Cathy: I could protect and preserve
I could say “no”… - Cathy: And how can I complain?
Yes, he’s insane, but look what he can do - View Quote Details on Cathy: And how can I complain?
Yes, he’s insane, but… - Jamie: If I didn’t believe in you
Then here’s where the travelogue ends - View Quote Details on Jamie: If I didn’t believe in you
Then here’s where the…
About The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a one act musical written by Jason Robert Brown and produced off-Broadway in March of 2002. It explores the five-year relationship between Jamie, a rising novelist, and Cathy, a struggling actress. Jamie plays out the story from the start of the relationship to its end, and Cathy does so in reverse chronological order–their time lines converging and then diverging in the song “The Next Ten Minutes” which depicts their wedding.
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