Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

Annie Reed: Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental.

Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?
Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do?
Sam Baldwin: Well, I'm

gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam

Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

Sam Baldwin: There is no way that we are going on a plane to meet some woman who be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn't you see "Fatal Attraction"?
Jonah Baldwin: You wouldn't let me!
Sam Baldwin: Well, I saw it, and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!

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Sleepless in Seattle

Annie Reed: [watching "An Affair to Remember"] Now those were the days when people knew how to be in love.
Becky: You're a basket case.
Annie Reed: They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they *knew*. It was right, it was real, it was...
Becky: A movie! That's your problem. You

don't want to be in love, you want to be in love in a movie.

Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

Jay: Tiramisu.
Sam Baldwin: What is "tiramisu"?
Jay: You'll find out.
Sam Baldwin: Well, what is it?
Jay: You'll see.
Sam Baldwin: Some woman is gonna want me to do it to her and I'm not gonna know what it is!
Jay: You'll love it.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Sam Baldwin: She wants to meet me at the top of the Empire State Building. On Valentine's Day.
Suzy: It's like that movie.
Sam Baldwin: What movie?
Suzy: An Affair To Remember. Did you ever see it?Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. She's gonna meet him at the top of the Empire State Building... only she got hit by a

taxi. And he waited and waited. And it was raining, I think. And then... she's too proud to tell him... that she's, uh...
[starts to cry]
Suzy: crippled. And he's too proud to find out why she doesn't come. But he comes to see her anyway. I forget why, but, oh... Oh, it's so amazing when he comes to see her because...
[crying more]

Suzy: he doesn't even notice that she doesn't get up to say hello. And he's very bitter. And you think that he's just gonna walk out the door... and never know why she's just lying there, you know, on the couch... with this blanket over her shriveled little legs.
[sobbing]
Suzy: Are you all right? - She's fine. Suddenly he goes, "I already sold the

painting." And he like goes to the bedroom... and he looks and he comes out and he looks at her and he kind of just... They know and then they hug. And it's so...
[trails off crying]

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Sleepless in Seattle

Walter: Look, Annie... I love you. But let's leave that out of this. I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

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Sleepless in Seattle

Sam Baldwin: Well, I'm not looking for a mail-order bride. I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner, without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie.
Greg: She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "The Dirty Dozen".
Greg: Well,

who didn't?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin...
[pretends to start crying]
Sam Baldwin: ... were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [also pretending to cry] Oh, God, stop it!
Sam

Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines.
Greg: [sobs dramatically] Stop it!
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel, at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet 'cause he was the MP...

Greg: Please, no more! Oh, God, I loved that movie.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Jay: Well, this is fate! She's divorced, we don't want to redo the cabinets, and you need a wife. What do they call it when everything intersects?
Sam Baldwin: The Bermuda Triangle.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Dennis Reed: Annie, when you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.

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Sleepless in Seattle

[last lines]
Annie Reed: Sam... It's nice to meet you.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Jonah Baldwin: A ho! A ho! My dad's been captured by a ho!

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Sleepless in Seattle

[Jonah is missing]
Jessica's Father: Jessica, this is your father. Tell us where he is, right this minute!
Jessica: "N.Y."
Sam Baldwin: What's that?
Jessica's Father: "No way."
Sam Baldwin: That's "N.W."!
Jessica: New York. He's on his way to New York.

Jessica's Mother: What? How?
Jessica: United, Flight 597.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Jonah Baldwin: If you get a new wife, I guess you'll have sex with her, huh?
Sam Baldwin: I certainly hope so.
Jonah Baldwin: Will she scratch up your back?
Sam Baldwin: [shocked] What?
Jonah Baldwin: In the movies, women are always scratching up the men's back and screaming and stuff

when they're having sex.
Sam Baldwin: How do you know this?
Jonah Baldwin: Jed's got cable.
Sam Baldwin: Oh.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Becky: Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

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Sleepless in Seattle

[the Taxi Driver takes Jonah to the Empire State Building]
Taxi Driver: There it is. What are you gonna do when you get up there? Spit off the top?
Jonah Baldwin: No, I'm gonna meet my new mother.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Jonah Baldwin: Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor.
Sam Baldwin: Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.

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Sleepless in Seattle

Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third grade teacher... wait a minute, she IS my third grade teacher!

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Sleepless in Seattle

Sam Baldwin: I'll tell you what I'm doing this weekend, I'm getting laid. It's the 1990's and nobody's getting laid. I'm the only man in America who's getting laid this weekend and I haven't been laid that much. Six girls in college, maybe seven.
[sees Jonah standing in the doorway]
Sam Baldwin: How long have you been standing there?

Jonah Baldwin: Forever.
Sam Baldwin: What did you just hear me say?
Jonah Baldwin: Six girls in college, maybe seven.
Sam Baldwin: Seven... EIGHT! Mary Kelly.
Jonah Baldwin: [holds Annie's letter] This is the one I like!

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Sleepless in Seattle

Keith: You know, it's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to get married over the age of 40.
Annie: That's not true. That statistic is not true.
Becky: That's right, it's not true. But it feels true.