Smash (TV Series)

Opening Night (2013)

Katharine McPhee: Karen Cartwright

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Quotes 

• Jimmy Collins : I need to talk to you.

  Karen Cartwright : Yeah, I need to talk to you, too.

  Jimmy Collins : Yeah, I... I know I haven't been very honest with you, it's... it's just... it's hard for me... to admit the things I have done in my life.

  Karen Cartwright : You have until the curtain goes up to tell me about your brother, or I'm gone.

  Jimmy Collins : What...? How do you... how do you know about Adam?

  Karen Cartwright : Through Ana. And I'm warning you, he's already done a lot of talking,

  [Jimmy scoffs] 

  Karen Cartwright : but I wanna hear it from you. No more lies.

  Jimmy Collins : Oh, what, let me guess. He's made me out to be some bad guy.

  Karen Cartwright : Well, was he lying?

  [scoffs as Jimmy hesitates] 

  Karen Cartwright : Fine. Forget it.

  [moves past him] 

• Karen Cartwright : [when Jimmy wants to confront Adam]  Hey. It took a lot of courage to tell me what you've told me tonight, but it was just talk. So if you've changed... Prove it, all right?

• Ivy Lynn : I've... actually been thinking about you a lot lately... because I can't stop comparing myself to you.

  [shakes her head] 

  Ivy Lynn : All those reviewers loved you in Boston.

  Karen Cartwright : Well, they're gonna love you too.

  Ivy Lynn : You don't know that.

  Karen Cartwright : Yeah, I do. Ivy... no one could have been better than you tonight. Not me, not anyone, not even Marilyn Monroe herself.

  [sighs] 

  Karen Cartwright : I was so jealous of you tonight. I almost left at intermission.

  [scoffs] 

  Ivy Lynn : Why didn't you?

  Karen Cartwright : 'Cause I... I wanted to watch you... sing Don't Forget Me.

  Ivy Lynn : Wait. You were jealous?

  Karen Cartwright : [laughs]  Don't rub it in.

  Ivy Lynn : [laughs]  The magical Karen Cartwright? You do some tiny show at the Fringe Festival, and suddenly it's the can't-miss event of the season.

  [chuckles] 

  Ivy Lynn : It took me eight Broadway shows to get here.

  Karen Cartwright : Yeah, well, I haven't done one yet, so...

  Ivy Lynn : Well, you will. Just not this season, okay?

  Karen Cartwright : [chuckles]  Okay. Deal.