While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Jack Warden: Saul

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• Priest : Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to...

  Lucy : I object.

  Saul : Oh, geez.

  Priest : I didn't get to that part yet.

  Jack : I would have to object too.

  Priest : What about you?

  Peter : I'm thinking!

• [Lucy sits in her booth taking tokens. Suddenly, a ring drops in, and she looks up in surprise to see Jack and the entire Callaghan family standing outside the booth] 

  Jack : Lucy? I need to ask you a question.

  Elsie : Get down on your knee. It's more romantic.

  Saul : He's proposing. Let him do it!

  Elsie : I *am* letting him do it!

  [Lucy and Jack can barely contain their laughter] 

  Jack : Can I come in there, please?

  Lucy : [playfully]  I can't. Not without a token.

  [Jack drops in a subway token and goes into the booth, as his family whispers excitedly] 

  Jack : Marry me?

  Lucy : Yeah. I love you.

  Jack : I love you back.

• Elsie : I could never make a good pot roast.

  Saul : You need good beef. Argentina has great beef: beef, and Nazis.

• Saul : Did you know I'm Peter's godfather?

  Lucy : Really? I thought you had to be catholic for that.

  Saul : Ox fudged it over. He donated 50 folding chairs to Father O'Shea's bingo night.

• Saul : So, do you have any family?

  Lucy : My mom died when I was really little and a couple of years ago my dad got sick so we moved from Indiana so he could go to research hospital.

  Saul : Research. Another word for very expensive.

  Lucy : Yeah, I had to quit school and I started working for the CTA and about a year ago he decided he had had enough research and he passed away.

• Dr. Rubin : [about Elsie]  Is she all right?

  Saul : [quietly]  She has a little heart problem, she's had three attacks already.

  Elsie : They weren't attacks, they were episodes.

  Saul : Nothing wrong with her hearing.

• Jack : Which of the Three Stooges was Peter's favorite?

  Lucy : Curly.

  Jack : Curly. *Ha*!

  Jack : [dejectedly after a short pause]  He's everybody's favorite.

  Saul : I like Shemp.

• Midge : [Lucy has come to the Callaghans' for Christmas and is sitting on the front steps talking to Saul]  Lucy? You came? Oh this is great! Hi, Saul! Hey, come on in, you two, it's freezing out here. Elsie made her eggnog.

  Saul : [whispers to Lucy]  A word to the wise: drink soda.

• Saul : I couldn't love you any more if you were my own son. But the fact of the matter is, you're... well you're a putz.

  Peter : Is there a point to this?