I Am Sam Quotes

I Am Sam is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . I Am Sam ended in 1970.

It features Jessie Nelson as producer, John Powell (composer) in charge of musical score, and Elliot Davis (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

I Am Sam is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of I Am Sam is 134 minutes long. I Am Sam is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Dakota Fanning as Lucy, Sean Penn as Sam, Michelle Pfeiffer as Rita, Dianne Wiest as Annie, Stanley DeSantis as Robert, Doug Hutchison as Ifty, Laura Dern as Brad, Michael B. Silver as All, Michelle Pfeiffer as Willy Harrison, Richard Schiff as Mr. Turner, and Laura Dern as Randy Carpenter.

I Am Sam Quotes

Michelle Pfeiffer as Rita

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "It's like every morning I wake up and I FAIL."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "On the Porsche the door handle is a little hidden by that thingamajig, so if you're having trouble finding it --"
• (Dianne Wiest) "NO."
• (Sean Penn) "Ok, I think maybe Annie's not exactly ready to go yet."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Home."
• (Unnamed) "Dialing office."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "HOME."
• (Unnamed) "Dialing office."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "HOME, god**** IT."
• (Unnamed) "Dialing Dr. Sloan."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Sam, I can go at least another nine rounds, but you got to let me in."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Where is your father?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Where do you think?"

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "You think you've got the market cornered on human suffering? Let me tell you something about people like me. People like me feel lost, and little, and ugly, and dispensable. People like me have husbands, screwing other people far more perfect than me. People like me have sons who hate them. And I've screamed, I've screamed horrible things at him, at a 7 year old because he doesn't want to get in the car at the end of the day. And then he looks at me with such anger and I hate him then. I know I'm failing you. I know I'm disappointing you. I know you deserve better but get in the f***ing car. It's like every morning I wake up and, I fail. And I look around and everybody seems to be pulling it off, but I-I-I can't. No matter how hard I try. Somehow, I'll never be enough."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "It's just -- I've never lost at anything."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Now, Ms. Cossell, in all the time that you've known them, have you ever questioned Sam's ability as a father?"
• (Dianne Wiest) "Never."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Never?"
• (Dianne Wiest) "Never. Look at Lucy. She's strong. She displays true empathy for people, all kinds of people. I know that you all think she's as smart as she is despite him, but it's because of him."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "So what you're saying is you don't worry about Lucy's future?"
• (Dianne Wiest) "No, I do."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Ah --"
• (Dianne Wiest) "I worry all the time. I worry if they take Lucy away from her father they will take away an enormous piece of her, and I worry that she will spend the rest of her life trying to fill that hole."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Sam, you gotta be firm on this."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Sam, I worry. I worry sometimes."
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah -- do you worry that you did something wrong?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "No. I worry that I've gotten more out of this relationship than you."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Can you grasp the concept of manipulating the truth -- not lying, just a little tweak here and there?"
• (Sean Penn) "No."

Sean Penn as Sam

• (Sean Penn) "YOU'RE MY LAWYER."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "That's right."
• (Sean Penn) "OKAY."

• (Sean Penn) "You've grown."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Have I?"
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah, 'cause your ears are bigger and your eyes are older."

• (Sean Penn) "You're going a little faster than everybody else. I was wondering if you noticed that."

• (Sean Penn) "Lucy doesn't need me anymore. She has a new family now -- and she doesn't need me anymore."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Is that what she said?"
• (Sean Penn) "It's because I know that. Because I just know that."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Well. That's the first stupid thing I've ever heard you say."

• (Sean Penn) "I love you like a song. I love you like in a song."

• (Sean Penn) "Yeah, but I tried, I tried hard."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Try harder."
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah, but you don't know, you don't know."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "I don't know WHAT?"
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah, you don't know what is like when you try, and you try, and you try, and you try, and you don't ever get there. Because you were born perfect and I was born like this, and you're perfect."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Oh, is that right?"
• (Sean Penn) "People like you don't know --"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "People like me?"
• (Sean Penn) "People like you don't know what is like to get hurted. Because you don't have feelings. People like you don't feel anything."

• (Sean Penn) "OK, remember when Paul McCartney wrote the song "Michelle" and then he only wrote the first part, Annie said. And then he gave that part to John Lennon, and he wrote the part that said, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And Annie said that it wouldn't have been the same song without that -- and that's why the whole world cried when the Beatles broke up on April 10, 1970."

Stanley DeSantis as Robert

• (Joe) "Do we get a balloon with these?"
• (Shoe Salesman) "-- Yeah"
• (Stanley DeSantis) "All of us or just her?"

Laura Dern as Randy Carpenter

• (Laura Dern) "I gave up a date with a daydream to come here."

• (Laura Dern) "Sam, you're early."
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah. Well, all the lights were green. When I was walking here, all the lights were green."
• (Laura Dern) "You know what? There is a reason for the court schedule. You stopped showing up. Lucy's had to rebuild her whole life, Sam."
• (Sean Penn) "I want her back. I-I know I can get her back."
• (Laura Dern) "Well, that's not up to me. But I'm just gonna tell you I'm gonna do everything in my power to protect that little girl from getting hurt again. Whose dogs are these?"
• (Sean Penn) "These are supplemental income. Supplemental income because I wash and I walk and I feed the dogs. Sam Dawson has everything for you canine needs."
• (Laura Dern) "Let me go get your daughter."

• (Laura Dern) "I think you should sound like, a normal person -- from the heart. From -- the -- heart."
• (Doug Hutchison) "From the heart"
• (Sean Penn) "This argh okay hello thank you for calling this is Saaaaaaaam"
• (Doug Hutchison) "Wow."
• (Laura Dern) "I feel that was a very thouching moment right there."
• (Doug Hutchison) "I, I, I, I felt that one"
• (Sean Penn) "High five."
• (Michael B. Silver) "High five."

Dakota Fanning as Lucy

• (Dakota Fanning) "All you need is love."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Daddy, did God made for you to be like this or was it an accident?"
• (Sean Penn) "Ok, what do you mean?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "I mean you're different."
• (Sean Penn) "But what do you mean?"
• (Dakota Fanning) "You're not like other daddies."
• (Sean Penn) "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry."
• (Dakota Fanning) "It's ok, daddy. It's ok. Don't be sorry. I'm lucky. Nobody else's daddy ever comes to the park."
• (Sean Penn) "Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we are lucky. Aren't we lucky? Yeah."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I won't read the word."
• (Sean Penn) "I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father."
• (Dakota Fanning) "I'm stupid."
• (Sean Penn) "You are not stupid."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Yes, I am."
• (Sean Penn) "No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word."
• (Dakota Fanning) "I don't wanna read it if you can't."
• (Sean Penn) "No, because it makes me happy. It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading."

• (Dakota Fanning) "Why are men bald?"
• (Sean Penn) "Sometimes they're bald because their head is shiny and they don't have hair on it. So their head is just more of their face."

• (Dakota Fanning) "I want no other daddy but you."
• (Dakota Fanning) "Did you hear that? I said I didn't want any other daddy but him. Why don't you write that down?"

Doug Hutchison as Ifty

• (Doug Hutchison) "I saw that on Channel 5 news -- With the reporter with the toupee and Mr. Turner lost his toupee."
• (Richard Schiff) "Thank you, Mr. Wali."

• (Doug Hutchison) "Yeah. It's an outgoing message so I think you need to sound a little more outgoing."

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