California Suite (1978)
Alan Alda: Bill Warren
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Quotes
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Bill Warren : I don't even have a pill in my medicine cabinet and I gave up analysis.
Hannah Warren : I heard that. Why did you quit?
Bill Warren : I went sane.
Hannah Warren : Sane? My God, how boring.
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Bill Warren : Mate-wise? Mate-wise I'm seeing a very nice girl.
Hannah Warren : Are you? Seeing her to where?
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Bill Warren : Jenny is our daughter. Ours.
Hannah Warren : Maybe. We'll see. They've been a little slow with the blood tests.
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Page : Billy boy! How's the new script coming?
Bill Warren : I found all the words in the dictionary. I just have to put them together.
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Hannah Warren : [sarcastically] I love your California clothes.
Bill Warren : They're Bloomingdales of New York.
Hannah Warren : That's the best place for California clothes.
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Hannah Warren : Jenny tells me you've moved. You're not in Hardy Canyon anymore.
Bill Warren : Laurel. Laurel Canyon.
Hannah Warren : Laurel. Hardy. What the hell.
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Bill Warren : Would you believe I run five miles every morning?
Hannah Warren : After what?
Bill Warren : After a good night's sleep.
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Bill Warren : Jenny tells me you have a new boyfriend.
Hannah Warren : No. I have a lover. Jenny has boyfriends.
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Bill Warren : What the hell are you so bitter about? You used to be bright and witty and now you're just snide and sarcastic.
Hannah Warren : It comes with age. When you don't have a fastball anymore, you go to change-ups and sliders.
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Bill Warren : Would you like to know what Jenny has to say about you?
Hannah Warren : She told me. She thinks I'm a son-of-a-bitch. She also thinks I'm a funny - son-of-a-bitch. She loves me; but, she doesn't like me. She's afraid of me. She's intimidated by me. She respects me; but, she doesn't want to become like me. We have a perfectly normal mother-daughter relationship.
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Bill Warren : Why didn't you ever run for office, Hannah? I always thought you'd a made a helluva Governor.
Hannah Warren : I don't think a democratic system really works. Offer me a monarchy and we'll talk.
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Bill Warren : Tell me about it, Hannah. Tell me about the political elite on Martha's Vineyard in July. I remember vividly those charity luncheons to raise money for the California grape pickers. A teeming mob of women who must have spent $12,000 on Gucci pants, so they could raise 2,000 for the grape pickers. Why the hell didn't they just mail them the pants?
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Hannah Warren : God, you look so - I don't know. What is the word I'm looking for?
Bill Warren : Happy.
Hannah Warren : Casual! - - You never know out here. Are you dressed up now or is that sporty?
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Hannah Warren : You drive everywhere, do you?
Bill Warren : Everywhere.
Hannah Warren : Even to your car?
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Hannah Warren : Christ, five million cigarettes are murder on the lungs.
Bill Warren : When you were younger you were the healthiest girl I knew. What happened?
Hannah Warren : With Nixon in the White House, good health seemed to be in bad taste.
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Bill Warren : Do you really think she has that devious a mind?
Hannah Warren : Of course - she's my daughter!
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Bill Warren : You're not the same woman I left nine years ago.
Hannah Warren : And I have the missing ovaries to prove it!
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Bill Warren : This is a new color for you: vulnerable.
Hannah Warren : Well, take a picture of it, 'cause you're not going to see it again.
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Bill Warren : If we're going to banter like this give me a minute. After nine years I'm a little rusty.
Hannah Warren : Oh, don't worry. You'll pick it right up again. It's like french. See, that's what I'd miss if I ever left New York. The bantering.
Bill Warren : San Francisco's only an hour away. we go up there and banter in emergencies.
Hannah Warren : I never liked San Francisco. I was always afraid I'd fall out of bed and roll down one of those hills.
Bill Warren : Not you, Hannah. You roll up hills.
Hannah Warren : Oh, good. You're bantering; the flight out wasn't a total loss.
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Hannah Warren : Your tan, of course, is perfect. I always wondered how you got the back of your ears so dark.
Bill Warren : You put the top of your car down and drive away from the Sun.
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Hannah Warren : You have changed, Billy. You know, you don't get rattled as easily as you used to.
Bill Warren : Well, they don't have as many rattlers out here.
Hannah Warren : Maybe this lunch won't be as dull as I thought.
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Hannah Warren : No cigarettes either?
Bill Warren : No. I gave them up eight years ago.
Hannah Warren : Don't you miss the coughing and the hacking in the morning?
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Hannah Warren : I don't know if your bitterness is because Jenny ran away or if because she ran away to somebody whose life style epitomizes everything you consider cheap and banal.
Bill Warren : I don't have a life style. I have a life.
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Bill Warren : She's not happy in New York, Hannah.
Hannah Warren : Nobody's happy in New York but they're alive.
Bill Warren : What a snob you are.
Hannah Warren : Thank God there's a few of us left.
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Bill Warren : New York is not the center of the god damn universe. Grant you, it's exciting, vibrant, stimulating, fabulous city; but, it is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
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Bill Warren : If you respect Jenny as a person, you respect her right to make a free choice.
Hannah Warren : You get her for the summers, that's enough. It takes me the other ten months of the year to get the seaweed out of her brains.
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Bill Warren : This is an event. It's the first time in my life that I have seen you so nervous.
Hannah Warren : I'm not nervous. I'm scared to death.
