Scene 10 — The Morning Routine
from American Psycho
Written by Bret Easton Ellis / Mary Harron / Guinevere Turner
Patrick Bateman provides a meticulous, clinical breakdown of his morning skincare and exercise routine. The monologue shifts from superficial vanity to a chilling admission of his lack of a true human identity.
PATRICK BATEMAN: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably compara
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