When Harry Met Sally 1989 quotes, page 3

Man

We were both born in the same hospital.

Woman

Nineteen twenty one.

Man

Seven days apart.

Woman

In the same hospital.

Man

We both grew up one block away from each other.

Woman

We both lived in tenements.

Man

On the lower east side.

Woman

On Delancey Street.

Man

My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.

Woman

He lived on Fordham Road.

Man

Hers moved when she was eleven.

Woman

I lived on a hundred and eighty third Street.

Man

For six years she worked on the fifteenth floor as a nurse where I had a practice on the fourteenth floor in the very same building.

Woman

I worked for a very prominent neurologist. We never met.

Man

Never met.

Woman

Can you imagine that?

Man

You know where we met? In an elevator. In the Ambassador Hotel, in Chicago, Illinois.

Woman

I was visiting family. He was on the third floor I was on the twelve.

Man

I rode up nine extra floors just to keep talking to her.

Woman

Nine extra floors.

Man

We were married forty years ago. We were married three years, we got a divorce. Then I married Margerie.

Woman

But first you lived with Barbara.

Man

Right, Barbara. But I didn't marry Barbara I married Margerie.

Woman

Then he got a divorce.

Man

Right, then I married Kitty.

Woman

Another divorce.

Man

Then a couple of years later at Atticalicio's funeral, I ran into her. I was with some girl I don't even remember.

Woman

Roberta.

Man

Right, Roberta. But I couldn't take my eyes off you. I remember I snuck over to her and I said... What did I say?

Woman

You said, "What are you doing after?"

Man

Right. So I ditched Roberta, we go for a coffee, a month later we were married.

Woman

Thirty five years today after our first marriage.

Marie

"Restaurants are to people in the 80s what theater was to people in the 60s." I read that in a magazine.

Jess

I wrote that.

Marie

Get out of here.

Jess

No, I did. I wrote that.

Marie

I've never quoted anything from a magazine in my life! That's amazing. Don't you think it's amazing? And you wrote it?

Jess

I also wrote "Pesto is the quiche of the 80s."

Marie

Get over yourself.

Jess

I did!

Marie

Where did I read that?

Jess

New York magazine.

Harry

Sally writes for New York magazine.

Marie

You know that piece had a real impact on me, I mean I, I don't know that much about writing but...

Jess

Well, well, it spoke to you, and that pleases me.

Marie

I.. I mean I really.. have.. you have to admire people who can be as... that articulate.

Jess

Nobody has ever quoted me back to me before.

Marie

That's great Sally.

Jess

We've been praying for it.

Marie

You should have done it in the first place.

Jess

For months, we've been saying you should do it.

Marie

You guys belong together.

Jess

It's like killing two birds with one stone.

Marie

It's like two wrongs make a right.
...

Marie

Tell me I'll never have to be out there again.

Jess

You'll never have to be out there again.

Sally

What do you want Harry?

Harry

Nothing, nothing. I... just called to say I'm sorry.

Sally

OK.

Sally

I gotta go.

Harry

Wait a second, wait a, wait a second. What are you doing for New Year's? Are you going to the Tyler's party? 'Cos I don't have a date, and if you don't have a date, we always said that if neither one of us had a date, we could be together for New Years. And we... could... you know.... why don't...

Sally

I can't do this anymore, I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

Sally

Amanda mentioned you had a dark side.

Harry

That's what drew her to me.

Sally

Your dark side?

Harry

Sure. Why? Don't you have a dark side? I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dots their "i's" with little hearts.

Sally

I have just as much of a dark side as the next person.

Harry

Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Sally

That doesn't mean you're deep or anything. I mean, yes, basically I'm a happy person...

Harry

So am I.

Sally

...and I don't see that there's anything wrong with that.

Harry

Of course not. You're too busy being happy. Do you ever think about death?

Sally

Yes.

Harry

Sure you do. A fleeting thought that drifts in and out of the transom of your mind. I spend hours, I spend days...

Sally

- and you think this makes you a better person?

Harry

Look, when the shit comes down, I'm gonna be prepared and you're not, that's all I'm saying.

Sally

And in the meantime, you're gonna ruin your whole life waiting for it.

Sally

At least I got the apartment.

Harry

That's what everybody says to me too. But really what's so hard about finding an apartment? What you do is, you read the obituary column. Yeah, you find out who died, and go to the building and then you tip the doorman. What they can do to make it easier is to combine the obituaries with the real estate section. Say, then you'd have Mr. Klein died today leaving a wife, two children, and a spacious three bedroom apartment with a wood burning fireplace.

Sally

At least I got the apartment.

Harry

That's what everyone says. But, really, what's so hard about finding an apartment? What you do is look in the obituary section. You see who died, find out where they lived, and tip the doorman. What they could do to make it easier is combine the two. You know, Mr. Kline died yesterday, leaving behind a wife, two children, and a spacious three bedroom apartment with a wood burning fireplace.

Sally

I don't have to take this crap from you.

Harry

If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?

Sally

I see people.

Harry

See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe?

Sally

What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I **** somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something.

Harry

Are you finished now?

Sally

Yes.

Harry

Can I say something?

Sally

Yes.

Harry

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Sally

Is Harry bringing anyone to the wedding?

Marie

I don't think so.

Sally

Is he seeing anyone?

Marie

He was seeing this anthropologist, but...

Sally

What does she look like?

Marie

Thin. Pretty. Big tits. Your basic nightmare.

Sally

Joe and I broke up.

Alice

What?

Marie

When?

Sally

Monday.

Alice

You waited three days to tell us?

Marie

You mean Joe's available?

Alice

Oh for God's sakes Marie don't you have any feelings about this? She's obviously upset.

Sally

I'm not that upset, we've been growing apart for quite a while.

Marie

But you guys were a couple, you had someone to go places with, you had a date on national holidays.

Sally

I said to myself, "You deserve more than this, you're thirty one years old..."

Marie

And the clock is ticking.

Sally

No, the clock doesn't really start to tick until you're thirty six.

Alice

God you're in such great shape.

Sally

Well, I've had a few days to get use to it, and uh...I feel OK.

Marie

Good. Then you're ready. [takes out a rolodex]

Sally

Look, there is no point in my going out with someone I might really like if I met him at the right time, but who right now has no chance of being anything to me but a transitional man.

Marie

OK, but don't wait too long. Remember what happened to David Walsaw? His wife left him and everyone said, "Give him some time, don't move in too fast." Six months later he was dead.

Sally

What are you saying? I should get married to someone right away in case he's about to die?

Alice

At least you could say you were married.

Marie

I'm saying, that the right man for you might be out there right now, and if you don't grab him someone else will and you'll have spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.

Sally

She works in his office. She's a paralegal. Her name is Kimberly. He just met her... She's supposed to be his transitional person, she's not supposed to be the one. All this time I've been saying that he didn't want to get married. But, the truth is, he didn't want to marry me. He didn't love me.

Harry

If you could take him back right now, would you?

Sally

No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?

Harry

Nothing.

Sally

I'm difficult.

Harry

You're challenging.

Sally

I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off.

Harry

But in a good way.

Sally

No, no, no, I drove him away. And I'm gonna be forty.

Harry

When?

Sally

Someday.

Harry

In eight years.

Sally

But it's there. It's just sitting there, like this big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had babies when he was 73.

Harry

Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

Sally

So what do you do with these women, you just get up out of bed and leave?

Harry

Sure.

Sally

Well explain to me how you do it. What do you say?

Harry

You'd say you have an early meeting, early haircut or a squash game.

Sally

You don't play squash.

Harry

They don't know that they just met me.

Sally

That's disgusting.

Harry

I know, I feel terrible.

Sally

You know I'm so glad I never got involved with you. I just would've ended up being some woman you had to get up out of bed and leave at three o'clock in the morning and clean your andirons, and you don't even have a fireplace. Not that I would know this.

Harry

Why are you getting so upset? This is not about you.

Sally

Yes it is. You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman.

Harry

Hey I don't feel great about this but I don't hear anyone complaining.

Sally

Of course not, you're out of the door too fast.

Sally

Thank God he couldn't place me, I drove from college to New York with him five years ago and it was the longest night of my life.

Joe

What happened?

Sally

He made a pass at me and when I said no - he was going with a girlfriend of mine uh... Oh God I can't even remember her name! Don't get involved with me Joe I am twenty six years old and I can't even remember the name of the girl I was such good friends with I wouldn't get involved with her boyfriend.

Joe

So what happened?

Sally

When?

Joe

When... when he made a pass at you and you said no and...

Sally

Oh, oh. I said we could just be friends. And this part I can remember he said that men and women could never really be friends. Do you think that's true?

Joe

No.

Sally

Do you have any women friends, just friends?

Joe

No. But I will get one if it is important to you.