You've Got Mail (1998) · 42 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in You've Got Mail (1998): in 16 of its 42 quotes
Most scenes with: George Papas (5), Joe Fox (4), Frank Navasky (2)
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So goodnight, dear void.
Kathleen Kelly I started helping my mother here after school when I was six years old. I used to watch her, and it wasn't that she was selling books, it was that she was helping people become whoever they were going to turn out to be. When you read a book as a child it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your life does.
Kathleen Kelly You were spying on me, weren't you? You probably rented those children.
Kathleen Kelly 'Joe. Just call me Joe.' As if you were one of those stupid 22-year-old girls with no last name. 'Hi, I'm Kimberley.' 'Hi, I'm Janice.' What's wrong with them? Don't they know you're supposed to have a last name? It's like they're a whole generation of cocktail waitresses.
Kathleen Kelly The odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.
Kathleen Kelly Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today I saw one. I couldn't believe it. It got on at 42nd -- and got off at 59th, where I assume it was going to Bloomindale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake. As almost all hats are.
Kathleen Kelly It will be really easy to stop seeing him, because .... I'm not.
Kathleen Kelly I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.
Kathleen Kelly I'm not nothing, I have a little money saved.
Birdie Conrad If you need more, ask me. I'm very rich, I bought Intel at 6!
Kathleen Kelly The truth is, he was the one who made me start thinking about writing --
Mister 152 Felony Indictments --
Kathleen Kelly Mister 152... insights into my soul.
Yeah. Well. Can't compete with that.
Kathleen Kelly Well. I keep bumping into you. Hope your mango's ripe.
I think it is.
Technology! Name me one thing, one that we've gained from technology.
Kathleen Kelly Electricity.
That's one. You think this machine's your friend, but it's not.
She fell in love with Generalissimo Franco?!
Kathleen Kelly Don't say that...really, we don't know that.
Who else could it have been?! It was probably around 1960 --
Kathleen Kelly Do you want some popcorn?
I can't believe this! I mean it's not like he was something normal like a socialist or an anarchist or something...
Kathleen Kelly It happened in Spain. People do really stupid things in foreign countries.
Absolutely! They buy leather jackets for much more than they're worth, but they don't fall in love with fascist dictators.
Christina You are so lucky.
You could be dead.
Kathleen Kelly Are you crazy? This man couldn't possibly be the rooftop killer.
Christina Remember when you thought Frank might be the Unabomber?
Kathleen Kelly That was different.
So who is he, I wonder? Certainly not, I gather, the world's greatest living expert on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But somebody else entirely different. Will you be mean to him, too?
Kathleen Kelly No, I will not. Because the man who is coming here tonight is completely unlike you. The man who is coming here tonight is kind and funny, he has the most wonderful sense of humor...
But... he's not here.
Kathleen Kelly Well... if he's not here, he has a reason, because there is not a cruel or careless bone in his body. But I wouldn't expect you to understand anybody like that. You with your theme park, multi-level, homogenize-the-world mochaccino land. You've deluded yourself into thinking that you're some sort of benefactor, bringing books to the masses. But no one will ever remember you, Joe Fox. And maybe no one will remember me, either, but plenty of people remember my mother, and they think she was fine, and they think her store was something special. You are nothing but a suit!
It wasn’t personal.
Kathleen Kelly What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that! All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you! But it was personal to me! It’s personal to a lot of people! And what’s wrong with being personal anyway?
Uh, nothing.
Kathleen Kelly Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.
What's his handle?
Kathleen Kelly Uh...
I'm not gonna write him if that's what you're worried about.
Kathleen Kelly Alright, N-Y-1-5-2.
N-Y-1-5-2. 152. He's 152 years old. He's had 152 moles removed so now he has 152 pockmarks on his face.
Kathleen Kelly The number of people who think he looks like Clark Gable.
152 people who thinks he looks like a Clark Bar.
