Daily Dialogue — June 4, 2012

Sally: He just met her… She’s supposed to be his transitional person, she’s not supposed to be the ONE. All this time I thought he didn’t want to get married. But, the truth is, he didn’t want to marry me. He didn’t love me.
Harry: If you could take him back now, would you?
Sally: No. But why didn’t he want to marry me? What’s the matter with me?
Harry: Nothing.
Sally: I’m difficult.
Harry: You’re challenging.
Sally: I’m too structured, I’m completely closed off.
Harry: But in a good way.
Sally: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I’m gonna be forty.
Harry: When?
Sally: Someday.
Harry: In eight years.
Sally: But it’s there. It’s just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it’s not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

— Harry (Billy Crystal), Sally (Meg Ryan), When Harry Met Sally (1989), written by Nora Ephron

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is pity party, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Today’s suggestion by Summer Johnson.

Trivia: Director Rob Reiner and producer Andrew Scheinman are credited on some drafts of the script.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Summer notes, “Favorite line: ‘And I’m going to be 40!’ I still think about that line all them time. Used to sound so old. Now I feel like Sally! It’s looming…” 

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