Dallas (TV Series)

New Beginnings (1981)

Linda Gray: Sue Ellen Ewing

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Quotes 

• J.R. Ewing : [looking at little John Ross]  Handsome little devil, isn't he?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : He has eyes exactly like yours, J.R. It's the first thing that attracted me to you.

  J.R. Ewing : Is that so? I thought it was my money.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : [smiles]  Well, I had several suitors with lots of money. No, it was your eyes. They always seemed to be hidin' secrets. Things you knew about the world that no one else knew.

  J.R. Ewing : Sue Ellen, what are you talking about?

• Sue Ellen Ewing : You know something? My mama didn't want me to marry you at first.

  J.R. Ewing : Don't tell me she wanted you to marry... that poor boy you were going around with, what's-his-name? Clint something or the other?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : No, no, not him. She had, uh, Billy Frompton picked out for me.

  J.R. Ewing : [snickers]  Billy Frompton. Billy turned into a blimp.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : I know. But his daddy was loaded. He had oil and uranium and diamonds and coal and things like that.

  J.R. Ewing : And you picked me because of my eyes?

  Sue Ellen Ewing : And because of the way you speak.

  [picking an imaginary piece of lint from his shirt] 

  Sue Ellen Ewing : You know, every time you talked to me... I got the shivers.

  [he turns away from mirror, goes to sit on bed, lies back] 

  Sue Ellen Ewing : You know, J.R., I've always wanted to ask you something. With all those ladies in the state of Texas after you...

  [sits down next to him] 

  Sue Ellen Ewing : Why me?

  J.R. Ewing : Well, once upon a time... I was a judge in the Miss Texas beauty contest. And after a while, you run all those girls through the contest, and it... It looks like a cattle auction in Fort Worth.

  Sue Ellen Ewing : I felt the same way too.

  J.R. Ewing : [sighs]  Then we got down to the... bathing suit category. And all those pretty little girls prancing around, trying to look sexy... But then there you were, Sue Ellen, not trying to do anything. Just.. just looking more sexy than any of them. And you had something else. You looked like a lady. And the combination was... devastating.