Max: Spoken like a true cynic.
Sara: I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist!
Max: Or a realist masquerading as a cynic who is secretly an optimist.
Albert: You know, honestly, I never knew I could feel like this. You know? I swear I'm going out of my mind. It's like I want to throw myself off of every building in New York. I see a cab and I just wanna dive in front of it because then I'll stop thinking about her.
Hitch: Look, you will. Just give it time.
Albert: That's just it.
I don't want to. I mean, I've waited my whole life to feel this miserable. I mean, and if this is the only way I can stay connected with her, then... well, this is who I have to be.
Hitch: All right, come on, just... show me what you got.
Albert: What do you... what do you mean?
Hitch: Just show me how you would kiss me.
Albert: Well, I... *wouldn't* kiss you.
Hitch: I'm not me. I'm Allegra.
Albert: [frowns] But you're really not.
Hitch: Okay, Albert. End of the night, you're dropping me off at home. Show me the magic.
Albert: Yeah. You know, I'm really not comfortable with this...
Hitch: [grabs Albert's hand, pretends to be Allegra] Albert, I had such a wonderful time with you!
Albert: Yeah. How about those Knicks, huh?
Hitch: [reaches for his keys] See what I'm doing? All right? This is a signal, okay? I'm fiddling with my keys, all right? A woman who doesn't want to kiss takes her keys out, puts them in the door, goes in the house. A woman that wants to kiss, she fiddles.
[jingles the keys]
Hitch: I'm fiddling.
Cressida Baylor: [Deleted Scene]
[Cressida runs into Hitch at a cafe]
Cressida Baylor: Adam?
Hitch: Oh *shit!* Alex.
Cressida Baylor: Alex! Right, of course, Jesus. Oh my God, look at you!
[Hitch chuckles uncomfortably]
Cressida Baylor: You don't remember me, do you?
Hitch: Um, Cressida right?
Cressida Baylor: Wow! God, what's it been, like ten... twelve years?
Hitch: Fourteen? Couple months?
Cressida Baylor: This is so - Wow!
[hugs him]
Cressida Baylor: How are you?
Hitch: I'm good. I'm good. I'm... I'm just good.
Cressida Baylor: Wow, you look *amazing!*
Hitch: Thank you. Thank you.
Cressida Baylor: Do you live around here?
Hitch: Yes, actually I live just down - Nope.
[she stares, confused]
Hitch: So what brings you to town?
Cressida Baylor: Oh well, I'm at
Sotheby's London and Russell Simmons is one of my biggest clients.
Hitch: Okay, big timer.
Cressida Baylor: I'm actually staying over at the Soho House.
[long awkward silence]
Cressida Baylor: Uh listen. Maybe you can help me. I need a great restaurant. I've got these other buyers I'm meeting for lunch and I tried
Nouveau but there was a two week wait!
Hitch: [starts dialing a number on his cell] Kim? Hitch. Can you do a reservation for a party of...
[Cressida shows three fingers]
Hitch: three at about...
[she holds up one finger]
Hitch: one o'clock? Last name Baylor. And take very good care of her. She's an old friend.
Buh-bye.
Cressida Baylor: Well I guess you're the man to know!
Hitch: Yeah that's me - *Adam* Hitchens.
Cressida Baylor: You are so silly!
[playfully hits his leg]
Hitch: [looking to end the conversation] Thanks for the paper.
[gets up and walks away]
Cressida
Baylor: Oh, yeah, well...
[gets up to follow him]
Cressida Baylor: Alex! Uh, listen. Russell's hosting this black tie thing at the Guggenheim and... I don't have a date.
Hitch: That's very very tempting.
[continues to leave]
Cressida Baylor: [shouts after him] Well, call me! I'm at the Soho House.
Hitch: Yeah, you said that.
[exits]
Chip: I noticed your glass was getting a little low so I took the liberty of bringing you another apple martini.
Sara: [bemused] Thank you.
Chip: And I couldn't help but notice... you look a lot like my next girlfriend.
Sara: What's your name?
Chip: They call me Chip.
Sara: Aww, you can't get them to stop?
Chip: [laughs] That was funny.
Sara: Listen, Chip, I understand the courage it takes to walk across a room and try to generate a relationship out of thin air, so don't take the following personally...
Chip: You have fantastic eyes.
Sara: [chuckles]
Thanks, try to listen. I... uh, this is no reflection on you, I'm just not interested. But thank you for the compliment of coming over.
Chip: You're welcome. So, do you like Cuban food?
Sara: Chip, seriously, that wasn't code for "I wish you'd try harder".
Chip: Are you always so shut down and afraid? That the right man might
make you feel...
Hitch: [puts a hand on Chip's shoulder] ... Feel like a natural woman?
[laughs]
Hitch: Sorry, I'm late, honey, I couldn't get a cab. How was the meeting?
Sara: Ooh. Well, there was a beginning, a middle... and an end. Nice to meet you, Chip.
Chip: [stands up to walk away] You,
too.
Hitch: Lean in, place your hand on the small of her back, say it in her ear like a secret. But watch your hand placement, too high says, 'I just wanna be friends,' too low says, 'I just wanna grab some ass.'
Albert: [making holding gestures at different levels] Okay... Friends. Ass. Me.
Hitch: Heard of Michelangelo? Heard of the Sistine Chapel?
Albert: Yeah?
[Points at himself]
Hitch: Michelangelo.
[Points at Albert]
Hitch: Sistine Chapel.
Albert: So you're saying you can make this work?
Hitch: My name is Alex Hitchens. Let's go
paint that ceiling.