Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Ross Malinger: Jonah Baldwin

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• 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!

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

• [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.

• 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.

• Jonah Baldwin : Talk to her, dad. She's a doctor.

  Sam Baldwin : Of what? Her first name could be Doctor.

• Jonah Baldwin : Thanks for dinner. I've never seen potatoes cooked like that before.

• Jessica : I am telling them you're twelve so you can fly unaccompanied and the stewardess won't carry you around and stuff like that.

  Jonah Baldwin : Are you crazy! Who'd believe I'm twelve?

  Jessica : If it's in the computer, they believe anything.

  Jonah Baldwin : Are you sure?

  Jessica : Do you want me to say that you are really really short for your age and they shouldn't say anything because it would hurt your feelings.

  Jonah Baldwin : Yeah, that's a great idea!

• 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!

• Jonah Baldwin : What do you think happens to someone after they die?

  Sam Baldwin : I don't know.

  Jonah Baldwin : Like... do you believe in Heaven?

  Sam Baldwin : [hesitates]  I never did. I mean, the whole idea of an afterlife... But now, I don't know. 'Cause I have these dreams. About your mom. And we have these long talks about you and how you're doing, which she sort of knows, but I tell her anyway. So what is that? That's sort of an afterlife, isn't it?

• Sam Baldwin : I'd much rather just see someone I like and get a feeling about them, and ask them if they want to have a drink.

  Jonah Baldwin : Or a slice of pizza.

  Sam Baldwin : Not dinner. Not necessarily on the first date, because halfway through dinner you could be really sorry you asked them to dinner. Whereas if it's just a drink, if you like them you can always ask them to dinner, but if not you can just say, "Well, that was great," and then you go home, if you see what I mean.

  [pause] 

  Sam Baldwin : I wonder if it still works this way.

  Jonah Baldwin : It doesn't. They ask you.

  Sam Baldwin : I'm starting to notice that.

• Victoria : Can I bring something back for you? A souvenir? Does he like snow globes? You shake them up and then the snow floats down.

  Jonah Baldwin : [with extreme politeness]  Sure. I'd really like that. Thank you so much.

  [Victoria looks up at Sam] 

  Sam Baldwin : He's 8.

  Victoria : He's good at it.