While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Bill Pullman: Jack
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Quotes
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Lucy : [to Jack] Okay, um. What do you mean by the leaning thing? You mean because he gave me flowers?
Jack : And then you *leaned*.
Lucy : [matter-of-factly] And then I leaned.
Jack : Yeah.
Lucy : Okay, how did I lean when I leaned?
Jack : [gesturing as he describes] It was a lot different from hugging. Hugging's very different. Hugging that involves arms and hands; and leaning is whole bodies moving in like this. Leaning involves *wanting*... and *accepting*. *Leaning*...
Joe Jr. : Hey Luce! Is this guy bothering you?
Lucy : [laughing] No, no.
Joe Jr. : Are you sure? Because it looks like he's *leaning*.
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[Lucy sits in her booth taking tokens. Suddenly, a ring drops in, and she looks up in surprise to see Jack and the entire Callaghan family standing outside the booth]
Jack : Lucy? I need to ask you a question.
Elsie : Get down on your knee. It's more romantic.
Saul : He's proposing. Let him do it!
Elsie : I *am* letting him do it!
[Lucy and Jack can barely contain their laughter]
Jack : Can I come in there, please?
Lucy : [playfully] I can't. Not without a token.
[Jack drops in a subway token and goes into the booth, as his family whispers excitedly]
Jack : Marry me?
Lucy : Yeah. I love you.
Jack : I love you back.
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Jack : [playing cards with a comatose Peter] Remember in, like, fifth or sixth grade, I was starting to get really good at poker and going home with lots of lunch money? I got to know the principal's office really well. He always used to say to me, "How come you can't be more like your brother Peter?" Well, you know what? I was all right with that. I had no problems with that, because I was proud of you and I was never envious of anything that you had.
[pause]
Jack : Until now. I'll cut the deck. High card gets Lucy.
[cuts deck, looks at the cards]
Jack : All right, we'll go best out of three.
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Lucy : [as she walks toward her closed apartment door expecting to see Joe Jr. on the other side] Oh! I don't want any flowers from you, I am not wearing black underwear, and I definitely do not want to move in with you, Jo... Jack.
Jack : [as Lucy sees Jack and not Joe Jr. as she opens the door] Well, I don't have any flowers, I wouldn't mind seeing the black underwear, but under the circumstances, I don't think we should move in together.
Lucy : I thought you were Joe Jr.
Jack : [sarcastically] I get that a lot.
Lucy : [laughing] Do you wanna come in?
Jack : Yeah.
Lucy : Yeah?
Jack : [seeing the dress hanging on her bodice from a clothes hanger draped over her neck] Yeah. Wow. So that's... wow, the wedding dress, huh?
Lucy : Hmm?
Jack : The wedding dress. It works good as a tie too.
Lucy : Ow. Yeah.
Jack : I just wanted to give you this before all the presents started to pile up. I was droppin' off some furniture in Little Italy. I look in a window, and...
Lucy : [handing her a snow globe] Florence.
Jack : Florence.
Lucy : Thank you. It's really beautiful.
Jack : And I wanted to say that I think that Peter... is a very lucky guy.
Lucy : Thank you.
Jack : I had to say that because you're gonna be my sister-in-law.
Lucy : Ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other then.
Jack : I better get goin'.
Lucy : [going after Jack as he has already turned to leave] Yeah. Hey, Jack. Jack!
Jack : [turning around] Yeah?
Lucy : Can you give me any reason why I shouldn't marry your brother?
Jack : Oh... I can't.
[Lucy nods as Jack angrily leaves]
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Peter : I'm making a clean start with Lucy. She is... she is... she... what is she? She's...
Jack : I'd say that she gets under your skin as soon as you meet her. She drives you so nuts you don't know whether to hug her or, or just really arm wrestle her. She would go all the way to Europe just to get a stamp in her passport. I don't know if that amounts to insanity, or just being really, really... likable.
Peter : No, that's not it.
Peter : [not noticing Jack's look of annoyance at his last comment] But she's gotta be really special. She's gotta be. And I can spend the rest of my life finding out why.
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Jack : [in Peter's apartment] You stay here a lot, huh?
Lucy : [uncomfortably lying] Oh, you know, feed the cat.
Jack : Peter doesn't have a cat.
Lucy : [picking up a cat that just at that time mysteriously appears from around the corner] Oh, hello, honey, hi...
Lucy : [discreetly sees the cat's name on its collar tag] ... *Fluffy*! Oh, Fluffy...
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Jack : Hey, what do you know about my family? Spending a week with them does *not* make you an expert!
Lucy : Spending a *lifetime* with them hasn't made you one, either!
Jack : [following Lucy as she heads toward her apartment building entrance] Yeah, well, I know that keeping your family happy gets complicated. Would your father be happy knowing you're sitting in a token booth, planning vacations that you aren't taking?
Lucy : No, he wouldn't. You're right. But you have no idea what it's like to be alone.
Jack : Hey, you have Peter.
Lucy : I don't have anybody.
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Lucy : What do you want from me, Jack?
Jack : I want you not to be unhappy.
Lucy : And what are you, the Happiness Guru, Jack? Are you happy? Because I don't remember you having had a conversation with your father. I mean, you *do* want to leave the business don't you, or is this just like another *miscommunication* that we're having here?
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Lucy : Hi. So, more questions?
Jack : No, I have an engagement present for you.
Lucy : Uh, you really shouldn't have.
Jack : I didn't. It's from my parents.
Lucy : Oh.
Jack : It's furniture. You want me to bring it up? Hey, was that Saul I saw leaving?
Lucy : [in hearing a thud in the background, it being Joe Jr. making noise in Lucy's closet] What's that?
Lucy : Cat.
Jack : [in being suspicious about what sounds like Lucy's lie] Big cat.
Lucy : Um, I th... I think y... I think you should, um, bring it to, uh, t... bring it to Peter's apartment.
Jack : You don't know what it is.
Lucy : Well, you know, anything would look nicer in Peter's apartment.
Lucy : [further to Jack in hearing a thud made by Joe Jr. from her closet] You know what? I'll come with you.
Joe Jr. : [off in the distance as Joe Jr. is heard falling down in the closet right after Jack leaves] Ooh!
