Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Meg Ryan: Annie Reed

Photos 

Quotes 

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

• 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.

• 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.

• [last lines] 

  Annie Reed : Sam... It's nice to meet you.

• [on an airplane to Seattle] 

  Nervous Woman on Airplane : Don't you just hate flying?

  Annie Reed : Yes, I do, and I just told the most terrible one to the man I'm about to marry. Do you feel that any lie is a betrayal?

  [pause] 

  Nervous Woman on Airplane : I said FLYING.

• Annie : Walter, I don't deserve you.

  Walter : Well, I wouldn't put it that way... but okay.

• Annie Reed : I am having all these fantasies about some man I have never even met... who lives in Seattle!

  Dennis Reed : It rains nine months of the year in Seattle.

  Annie Reed : I know!

• Becky : What about the letter?

  Annie : It means nothing. It was written before I went out there. Before the ho.

  [sighs] 

  Annie : The only thing is, she didn't look like a ho. She looked like somebody we would've been friends with.

• Annie Reed : When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? Why don't we say he was widowered?

• Annie Reed : You know that dream when you're on the street naked and everyone is looking?

  Becky : I love that dream.