L.A. Story (1991)

Victoria Tennant: Sara McDowell

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Quotes 

• Sara : And if I were to go?

  Harris : All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off.

• Harris : Ordinarily, I don't like to be around interesting people because it means I have to be interesting too.

  Sara : Are you saying I'm interesting?

  Harris : All I'm saying is that, when I'm around you, I find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting.

• Sara : Why didn't you tell me you had just broke up with someone?

  Harris : How do you know I just broke up with someone?

  Sara : Because when men just break up with someone, they always run around with someone much too young for them.

  Harris : She's not so young. She'll be 27 in four years.

• Harris : [answering the telephone]  Hello, this is Harris. I'm in right now, so you can talk to me personally. Please start talking at the sound of the beep.

  [Harris makes a beeping noise mimicking an answering machine] 

  Sara : Hello?

  Harris : Hello.

  Sara : Hello?

  Harris : Hello.

  Sara : Is this a person?

  Harris : Yes, it is a person.

• Harris : [Sara dodges cars while driving on the left]  Right side... right side! Get on the right side!

  Sara : I don't think he can hear you.

• Sara : I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.

• [repeated line] 

  Sara : Let your mind go and your body will follow.

• [Harris kisses Sara] 

  Sara : Oh no, I can't. This is how Mommy met Daddy.

  Harris : Let your mind go and your body will follow.

• Roland : Sara just got off a plane from London.

  Trudi : Oh, you must be exhausted.

  Sara : Yes, I'm shattered, but it's nothing that some sleep and a good fuck wouldn't cure, as my sister used to say. Ha ha ha.

  [everyone stares] 

  Roland : You'll have to forgive Sara.

  Sara : Oh, it was just... it was just a figure of speech. I've been on a plane for twelve hours next to a crying baby.

• Sara : What did you have in mind?

  Harris : Well, I was thinking of taking you on a cultural tour of L.A.

  Sara : That's the first fifteen minutes, then what?

  Harris : All right, a cynic. First stop is six blocks from here.

  Sara : Why don't we walk?

  Harris : Walk? A walk in L.A.?

• Harris : You're on time.

  Sara : Actually I'm late.

  Harris : You're exactly on time.

  Sara : But I had planned to be early.

• Sara : Roland thinks L.A. is a place for the brain-dead. He says, if you turned off the sprinklers, it would turn into a desert. But I think - I don't know, it's not what I expected. It's a place where they've taken a desert and turned it into their dreams. I've seen a lot of L.A. and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right. So what do you say, Roland?

  Roland : I still say it's a place for the brain-dead.