Heartburn (1986)
Meryl Streep: Rachel
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Quotes
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Mark Forman : [taking a very pregnant Rachel to the hospital] Just keep breathing, you can do it.
Rachel Samstat : [panting] I don't want to do it, honey. Can't we get somebody else to do it?
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Mark Forman : It's just that there's no door to the kitchen.
Contractor Laszlo : The back door.
Mark Forman : The back door. Yes. It's true. You can get into the kitchen... through the back door. This, we know is a kitchen. But you can't get inside the house from the kitchen! Now, how the fuck did this happen?
Rachel Samstat : Mark. For God's sake. Laszlo, we thought that you could put a door here.
Contractor Laszlo : She's a piece of cake. He's a piece of cake.
Rachel Samstat : It's a piece of cake.
Contractor Laszlo : You are Hungarian?
Rachel Samstat : No. You are Hungarian.
Contractor Laszlo : Yes.
Rachel Samstat : Yes. Hungarians have no pronouns.
Mark Forman : Apparently they don't have fucking doors, either.
Contractor Laszlo : She is very angry at me.
Rachel Samstat : He is very angry at you. Yes.
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Mark Forman : When we're married, I want this once a week.
Rachel Samstat : I'm never getting married again. I don't believe in marriage.
Mark Forman : Neither do I.
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Mark Forman : What the fuck was that?
Rachel Samstat : He has cancer.
Mark Forman : Bullshit.
Rachel Samstat : Mark.
Mark Forman : It's bullshit!
Rachel Samstat : People don't lie about things like that.
Mark Forman : Contractors lie about everything. What'd he say, "I have cancer"?
Rachel Samstat : Exactly.
Mark Forman : Well, he probable meant that "he" has cancer.
Rachel Samstat : Who?
Mark Forman : How do I know? Someone. I don't know. His father.
Rachel Samstat : His father's dead.
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Mark Forman : He has an unlisted address.
Rachel Samstat : What are you talking about?
Mark Forman : Oh, well, it's the latest thing.
Rachel Samstat : What kind of person has an unlisted address?
Mark Forman : I'll tell you what kind person. The kind that doesn't want to be dead. The kind people are trying to kill all the time.
Rachel Samstat : Why are you angry at me for?
Mark Forman : I'm not angry at you.
Rachel Samstat : Then what you shouting at me for?
Mark Forman : Because you're the only one that's here.
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Mark Forman : My wife's name was Kimberley. One of the first Kimberleys.
Rachel Samstat : My husband had hamsters.
Mark Forman : Me too.
Rachel Samstat : Not as a grownup you didn't. He had hamsters named Arnold and Shirley. And he was always whipping up little salads for them in the Slice-O-Matic and buying them extremely small sweaters at a pet boutique in Rego Park. Also, there was a certain amount of talking in squeaky voices.
Mark Forman : Both of you?
Rachel Samstat : Well, he was Arnold... and I was Shirley.
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Rachel Samstat : I saw you on 'Meet the Press'.
Mark Forman : I read your article about ice cream and I have to tell you, I disagree with you about Häagen-Dazs Rum Raisin.
Rachel Samstat : What can I say?
Mark Forman : You were so vicious about it.
Rachel Samstat : I'm a vicious person.
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Mark Forman : Let's sing - all the songs we know about babies.
Rachel Samstat : I don't know any songs about babies.
Mark Forman : [singing] Yes, sir
Mark Forman , Rachel Samstat : That's my baby, No, sir, I don't mean maybe, Yes, sir
Mark Forman : That's my baby now
Rachel Samstat : Oh, baby, you...
Mark Forman : Nobody but you
Rachel Samstat : [speaking] I don't know the rest.
Mark Forman : [singing] Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
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Rachel Samstat : My sister always used to try to get me to have one. A nose job.
Mark Forman : I love your nose.
Rachel Samstat : Well, it goes with my face. I always say that, but it isn't true.
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Rachel Samstat : Forty percent of all second marriages end in divorce. You can't even get a decent bagel in Washington, D.C.
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Rachel Samstat : You couldn't even pay cash, like a normal philanderer. You charged everything.
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Mark Forman : Jonathan is not being sent to Bangladesh.
Rachel Samstat : Why not?
Mark Forman : Because we still care about Bangladesh.
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Rachel Samstat : I don't know how anybody gets anything going in this town. Nobody even *flirts* here.
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Rachel Samstat : Please, don't let this be happening. Please, just don't let this be happening. Why can't we go back to the way it was? I promise I'll be the way I was.
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Rachel Samstat : Oh, Daddy, what am I gonna do?
Rachel's Father : There's nothing you can do. You want monogamy, marry a swan.
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Diana : Hey, I have something I need to talk about today. I can't decide whether to go to Club Med.
Rachel Samstat : Diana, I need to talk too.
Diana : When I'm done.
Vera : Rachel has something very serious to talk about.
Diana : This is serious. Nobody ever thinks my problems are serious. Go ahead.
Rachel Samstat : Mark is - Mark is in love with someone else.
Diana : No, but - why does everything happen to Rachel? Nothing ever happens to me.
Ellis : Stick it up your ass, Diana.
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Rachel Samstat : Rice pudding is a very personal thing.
