Random Hearts (1999)

Kristin Scott Thomas: Kay Chandler

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Quotes 

• Kay Chandler : You're not a Democrat, are you?

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : What if I am?

  Kay Chandler : We talk, I give you books to read.

• Kay Chandler : You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

• Kay Chandler : You wanna know why, and there's no why.

• Kay Chandler : Got any cash?

  Cullen Chandler : [reaching into his pocket]  Sure.

  Kay Chandler : I need about a half a million. Harold Cornelius is gonna run against me as a write-in.

• Kay Chandler : [eulogizing her husband]  We had so many great days. Just not enough years.

• Kay Chandler : Don't you... *fuck* with me!

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : If you don't like that word, don't use it.

• Dutch Van Den Broeck : What happens if you don't get elected?

  Kay Chandler : The country goes to hell.

• Kay Chandler : [to her campaign manager]  I think I may be losing what it takes to lie. This may become a problem.

• TV Reporter at Hospital : How would you characterize your relationship with the sergeant.

  Kay Chandler : The sergeant's wife was killed on the plane that went down with my husband. I met the sergeant a few days after that day. He was a friend when I needed a friend. I hope he feels the same way.

  TV Reporter at Hospital : So you're just friends?

  Kay Chandler : Just friends? We are surely friends. We've seen each other through something... We're more than friends. We're survivors.

• Wendy Judd : What is the worst thing you've ever done?

  Kay Chandler : If I've already done it, it'll be a dull life.

• Kay Chandler : You don't care who knows, do you? About her and him, I mean.

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : I care. They know anyway. Sooner or later, everybody knows everything.

• Dutch Van Den Broeck : I wondered if you'd come.

  Kay Chandler : Guy like you, girl like me. What reason could there be not to? Sorry I'm late.

  [beginning to ramble] 

  Kay Chandler : I had to change a few times and pack. I thought - if I packed light, it'd look like I knew what I was doing. But I didn't know what I was doing, so I didn't know what to pack.

• Kay Chandler : I want to know who is this woman who's wearing my clothes and using my body? Is she permanent? Or is she only around when you are?

• Kay Chandler : Come on. It's only adultery. Nobody gives a damn except the people it happens to.

• [last lines] 

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : How about I call you up sometime in New Hampshire?

  Kay Chandler : And say what?

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : Say... "You wanna go to a movie?" What do you say?

  Kay Chandler : Wouldn't that be something?

  [walks off for her plane] 

• Kay Chandler : Do you know what happens when a member of Congress accuses you of harassment?

  Dutch Van Den Broeck : We'd get our names in the newspapers?

  Kay Chandler : That's close to blackmail!