Sam Baldwin Move on. Right. That's what I'm going to do. In a few months, I'll be fine, I'll just grow a new heart.
Most-quoted character in Sleepless in Seattle (1993): in 11 of its 19 quotes
Most scenes with: Jonah Baldwin (5)
Mommy got sick. And it happened just like that. There was nothing anybody could do. It isn't fair. There's no reason. But if we start asking why, we'll go crazy.
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3 quotes Sam Baldwin Sam Baldwin Look, we had a tough time at first, but we're dealing with it. Jonah and I will get along fine again...as soon as I break his radio.
Sam Baldwin Jonah, listen to me. You don't know Victoria. I hardly know her myself. She is a fat mystery to me. She tosses her hair a lot. Why does she do this? I have no idea. Is it a twitch? Does she need a haircut? Should she use a barrette to keep her hair out of her face? These are things I'm willing to get to the bottom of. And that is why... I am DATING her. That's all I'm doing. I'm not living with her. I'm not marrying her. Can you appreciate the difference? This is what single people do. They try other people on and see how they fit. But everybody's an adjustment. Nobody's perfect. There's no such thing as a perfect... [Annie walks in. Sam sees her for the first time, loses his train of thought, and stops talking]
Scenes with Sam Baldwin
7 scenes
Sam Baldwin Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?
Sam Baldwin Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone What are you going to do?
Sam Baldwin Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Dr. Marcia Fieldstone Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam Baldwin Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
Sam Baldwin I'd much rather just see somebody I like, and get a feeling about them, and ask them if they want to have a drink.
Or a slice of pizza --
Sam Baldwin Not dinner. Not necessarily on the first date because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to dinner. Whereas if it's just a drink, if you like them you can always ask them for dinner but if not, you can just say, "Well, that was great," and then you go home. If you see what I mean. [beat] I wonder if it still works this way.
It doesn't. They ask you.
Sam Baldwin I'm starting to notice that.
If you get a new wife, I guess you'll get to have sex with her, huh?
Sam Baldwin I certainly hope so.
Will she scratch up your back?
Sam Baldwin [shocked]
What?
In the movies, women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff when they're having sex.
Sam Baldwin How do you know all this?
Jessica's got cable.
Sam Baldwin Oh.
Sam Baldwin [about Annie]
She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. On Valentine's Day.
Suzy It's like that movie.
Sam Baldwin What movie?
Suzy An Affair To Remember. Did you ever see it? Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. She's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building... only she got hit by a taxi. And he waited and waited. And it was raining, I think. And then... she's too proud to tell him... that she's, uh... [starts to cry] crippled. And he's too proud to find out why she doesn't come. But he comes to see her anyway. I forget why, but, oh... Oh, it's so amazing when he comes to see her because... [crying more] he doesn't even notice that she doesn't get up to say hello. And he's very bitter. And you think that he's just gonna walk out the door... and never know why she's just lying there, you know, on the couch... with this blanket over her shriveled little legs. [sobbing]
Are you all right?
Greg She's fine.
Suzy Suddenly he goes, "I already sold the painting." And he like goes to the bedroom... and he looks and he comes out and he looks at her and he kind of just... They know and then they hug. And it's so... [trails off crying]
Sam Baldwin Well I'm not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin Although I cried at the end of The Dirty Dozen.
Greg Who didn't?
Sam Baldwin Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [Begins to cry] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg [Crying too]
Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin And Trini Lopez...
Greg Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg Stop.
Sam Baldwin And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg [Crying harder]
Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
Are you going with her?
Sam Baldwin I'm going with Victoria. Yes.
Sam Baldwin [Jonah heads to his room]
Don't try anything tricky, understand?
[Jonah slams his door] [walks to Jonah's room]
Don't go rolling in poison ivy as soon as I leave the house. You lock yourself in a closet or do anything, make sure you'll need stitches. If your finger falls off, it's staying off. No one's gonna pack it on ice and take you to the hospital, so you can be a breakthrough in laser surgery. Is this about that woman in Baltimore?
Annie.
Sam Baldwin Good! Fine! I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven. [sees Jonah standing in the doorway] How long have you been standing there?
Forever.
Sam Baldwin What did you just hear me say?
Six girls in college, maybe seven.
Sam Baldwin Seven... EIGHT! Mary Kelly.
Sam Baldwin Jonah, the fact is, you're not gonna like any woman, because that isn't your mother.
How do you know?! What's wrong with Annie?!
Sam Baldwin Oh, Jonah, shut up!
Shut up? Shut up?! Mom never said "shut up" to me! Mom never yelled at me!
Sam Baldwin This conversation is finished.
Why can't we go to New York?
Sam Baldwin There is no way that we're going on a plane to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see Fatal Attraction?
You wouldn't let me!
Sam Baldwin Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!
I'm not leaving until you say "yes".
Sam Baldwin That's good, you'll have a lot to tell Oprah how your Dad destroyed your life because he had to go off for a weekend special at the Holiday Inn!
Jay That's what I'm trying to tell you, what women are looking for: pecs and a cute butt.
Sam Baldwin You mean like, "He has the cutest butt"?
Jay Yeah.
Sam Baldwin Where did I hear that recently?
Jay Everywhere. You can't even turn on the news nowadays without hearing about how some babe thought some guy's butt was cute. Who the first woman to say this was, I don't know, but somehow it caught on.
Sam Baldwin So how's my butt?
Jay [Jay stops walking, examines Sam's backside]
Not bad.
Sam Baldwin Really?
Jay Yeah.
Sam Baldwin Is it cute, though?
Jay I don't know. Are we grading on a curve?
