Coupling (2000–2004)
Kate Isitt: Sally Harper
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Quotes
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Jane : I'm being stalked, actually, so I'm pretty secure in my attractiveness.
Susan : You're being stalked?
Jane : Is that so hard to believe?
Sally : My god!
Jane : Everyday on my way home from work, a man follows me. It's true.
Susan : Well, have you been to the police?
Jane : They said I was being silly and paranoid. I heard them laughing after I left.
Sally : That's terrible!
Susan : Well, have you confronted the man who follows you?
Jane : Well, there's no point, is there? It's never the same man twice. Sometimes they switch over when I'm halfway home. It's so well organized!
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Patrick : If I don't like a woman, if there's no chemistry, if I'm not attracted to her, then I don't lead her on. I just get out of there.
Sally : Really?
Patrick : Everytime, before she *even* wakes up.
Sally : So you do have sex with them, then?
Patrick : Well, there's no need to be cruel, is there?
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Jane : I'm just feeling so ridiculously horny. I swear, if I didn't have my heart set on having sex with a man, you two would be in serious trouble.
Sally : I could never have sex with another woman. What if she had a smaller bottom?
Susan : Excuse me! I have a crisis here way above bottoms on the crisis scale.
Sally : We're women. There is nothing above bottoms on the crisis scale. Bottoms are our natural enemy.
Susan : Sally, please...
Sally : They follow us around our entire lives, right behind us and constantly growing. How do they do that? I'm sure mine's back there secretly snacking.
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Sally : [finds an engagement ring in a box labeled "Sally don't look in this box."] This is an engagement ring.
Patrick : Yes it is.
Sally : An engagement ring! Do you have a girlfriend?
Patrick : Yes, Sally.
[pause]
Patrick : You.
Sally : Me?
Patrick : Yes, you.
Sally : Who are you proposing to then?
Patrick : Who do you think?
Sally : I... I...
Patrick : I was waiting - I was waiting, as it happens, for the right romantic moment.
Sally : [Looks around at the mess she made] Fuck.
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Sally : A woman with clothes on has negotiating power.
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Sally : [singing] I'm Susan the happy trotting elf! I trot and trot and bounce and bounce and smile a lot and that's what counts! I'm Susan the happy trotting smile a lotting elf! I'm polite so just for clarity, when I'm cross I say "Apparently!"
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[Talking to Jane and Susan]
Sally : At least you've been in there with Patrick. I've passed on my opportunity to be "Patricked."