Woman of the Year (1942)
Katharine Hepburn: Tess Harding
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Quotes
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Tess Harding : [In the stands at the ballpark, observing the large crowd in attendance] Are all these people unemployed?
Sam Craig : No, they're all attending their grandmother's funeral.
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Sam Craig : [Sam and Tess are both mildly drunk. Tess's head is resting on Sam] There's something I have to get off my chest...
Tess Harding : [starts to get up] I'm too heavy...
Sam Craig : [smiles] No. I love you.
Tess Harding : You do?
Sam Craig : Positive.
Tess Harding : [sighs] That's nice. Even when I'm sober?
Sam Craig : Even when you're brilliant.
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Sam Craig : I don't want to be married to Tess Harding any more than I want you to be just Mrs Sam Craig. Why can't you be Tess Harding Craig?
Tess Harding : I think it's a wonderful name.
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Tess Harding : [attending a baseball game] You mean our paper sends two people to cover the game?
Phil Whittaker : No, I cover the game, he just kicks it around in his column.
Tess Harding : We've got only one man at Vichy...
Sam Craig : Vichy, are they still in the league?
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Tess Harding : Sam, why can't we sit down like adults and patch this thing up?
Sam Craig : I'm afraid that might become a habit. Then we'd wind up with a patchwork quilt for a marriage.
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Tess Harding : I'm going to be you wife. You don't think that I can do the little ordinary things that any idiot can do, do you?
Sam Craig : No.
Tess Harding : Why not?
Sam Craig : Because you're incapable of doing them, that's why. You can't expect Seabiscuit to stop in the middle of the stretch, drink a glass of water, and count to seven at the same time, you know. That takes training.
Tess Harding : Well, I'm not Seabiscuit.
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Tess Harding : He-woh, Daddy!
