While You Were Sleeping (film) Quotes

While You Were Sleeping (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . While You Were Sleeping completed its run in 1970.

It features Roger Birnbaum as producer, Randy Edelman in charge of musical score, and Phedon Papamichael as head of cinematography.

While You Were Sleeping (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of While You Were Sleeping (film) is 103 minutes long. While You Were Sleeping (film) is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Sandra Bullock as Lucy, Jack Warden as Saul, Bill Pullman as Jack, Peter Gallagher as Peter, Peter Boyle as Ox Callahan, Glynis Johns as Elsie, Jason Bernard as Jerry, Ally Walker as Ashley, Monica Keena as Mary Callaghan, Micole Mercurio as Midge Callaghan, and Michael Rispoli as Mr. Fusco.

While You Were Sleeping (film) Quotes

Sandra Bullock as Lucy

• (Sandra Bullock) "Hi. So, more questions?"
• (Bill Pullman) "No, I have an engagement present for you."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Uh, you really shouldn't have."
• (Bill Pullman) "I didn't. It's from my parents."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh."
• (Bill Pullman) "It's furniture. You want me to bring it up? Hey, was that Saul I saw leaving?"
• (Bill Pullman) "What's that?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Cat."
• (Bill Pullman) "Big cat."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Um, I th; I think y; I think you should, um, bring it to, uh, t; bring it to Peter's apartment."
• (Bill Pullman) "You don't know what it is."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Well, you know, anything would look nicer in Peter's apartment."
• (Sandra Bullock) "You know what? I'll come with you."
• (Joe Jr.) "Ooh."

• (Joe Jr.) "O.K., Lucy, it's either me or him."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Him."
• (Joe Jr.) "You don't have to answer right away."

• (Sandra Bullock) "It's amazing how exotic Wisconsin -- isn't."

• (Sandra Bullock) "It's just -- I never met anyone I could laugh with. You know?"

• (Sandra Bullock) "I've had a really lousy Christmas, you've just managed to kill my New Year's, if you come back on Easter- you can burn down my apartment."

• (Sandra Bullock) "You're trying on my shoes?"
• (Joe Jr.) "No, I-I slipped and my foot just went like that"
• (Joe Jr.) "right into the shoe."

• (Sandra Bullock) "What do you want from me, Jack?"
• (Bill Pullman) "I want you not to be unhappy."
• (Sandra Bullock) "And what are you, the Happiness Guru, Jack? Are you happy? Because I don't remember you having had a conversation with your father. I mean, you do want to leave the business don't you, or is this just like another miscommunication that we're having here?"

• (Sandra Bullock) "Okay, um. What do you mean by the leaning thing? You mean because he gave me flowers?"
• (Bill Pullman) "And then you leaned"
• (Sandra Bullock) "And then I leaned."
• (Bill Pullman) "Yeah."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Okay, how did I lean when I leaned?"
• (Bill Pullman) "It was a lot different from hugging. Hugging's very different. Hugging that involves arms and hands; and leaning is whole bodies moving in like this"
• (Bill Pullman) ". Leaning involves wanting -- and accepting. Leaning --"
• (Joe Jr.) "Hey Luce. Is this guy bothering you?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "No, no."
• (Joe Jr.) "Are you sure? Because it looks like he's leaning."

• (Sandra Bullock) "You don't have to walk me home."
• (Bill Pullman) "You block the wind."

• (Sandra Bullock) "He would get these far-off looks in his eyes and he would say 'Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan'. I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about MY life."

• (Sandra Bullock) "If you fit into my pants I will kill myself."

• (Sandra Bullock) "You give up your seat every day in the train."
• (Peter Gallagher) "Well -- But that's not heroic."
• (Sandra Bullock) "It is to the person who sits in it."

• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh. I don't want any flowers from you, I am not wearing black underwear, and I definitely do not want to move in with you, Joe;"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Jack."
• (Bill Pullman) "Well, I don't have any flowers, I wouldn't mind seeing the black underwear, but under the circumstances, I don't think we should move in together."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I thought you were Joe Jr."
• (Bill Pullman) "I get that a lot."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Do you wanna come in?"
• (Bill Pullman) "Yeah."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah?"
• (Bill Pullman) "Yeah. Wow. So that's -- Wow; the wedding dress, huh?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Hmm?"
• (Bill Pullman) "The wedding dress. It works good as a tie too."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Ow. Yeah."
• (Bill Pullman) "I just wanted to give you this before all the presents started to pile up. I was droppin' off some furniture in Little Italy. I look in a window, and --"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Florence."
• (Bill Pullman) "Florence."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Thank you. It's really beautiful."
• (Bill Pullman) "And I wanted to say that I think that Peter -- is a very lucky guy."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Thank you."
• (Bill Pullman) "I had to say that because you're gonna be my sister-in-law."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other then."
• (Bill Pullman) "I better get goin'."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Hey, Jack. Jack."
• (Bill Pullman) "Yeah?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Can you give me any reason why I shouldn't marry your brother?"
• (Bill Pullman) "Oh -- I can't."

• (Priest) "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to --"
• (Sandra Bullock) "I object."
• (Jack Warden) "Oh, geez."
• (Priest) "I didn't get to that part yet."
• (Bill Pullman) "I would have to object too."
• (Priest) "What about you?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "I'm thinking."

• (Sandra Bullock) "Wh-why did you say that?"
• (Nurse Wanda) "Say what?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "I'm not his fiancee."
• (Nurse Wanda) "Why did you tell me that you were?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "I'm not engaged. I've never even spoken to the guy."
• (Nurse Wanda) "What? Well, do-, downstairs, you said, you said you were gonna marry him."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, geez, I was talking to myself."
• (Nurse Wanda) "Well, next time you talk to yourself, tell yourself you're single and end the conversation."

• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, and I'm very sorry about your carpet."
• (Peter Gallagher) "What about my carpet?"

• (Sandra Bullock) "Celeste, you have to have sex to be pregnant."
• (Celeste) "But I thought you said you were engaged."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Well, we're -- waiting."
• (Celeste) "Waiting?"

• (Sandra Bullock) "Do you believe in love at first sight? Nah, I betcha don't, you're probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever, like, seen somebody? And you knew that, if only that person really knew you, they would, well, they would of course dump the perfect model that they were with, and realize that YOU were the one that they wanted to, just, grow old with. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?"

• (Sandra Bullock) "I'm having an affair. I like Jack."
• (Jason Bernard) "Who's Jack?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Peter's brother."
• (Jason Bernard) "So?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "So he thinks I'm engaged."
• (Jason Bernard) "To who?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "To Peter."
• (Jason Bernard) "Lucy, I really don't have time for this."
• (Sandra Bullock) "No, you have to tell me what to do."
• (Jason Bernard) "Tell the truth."
• (Sandra Bullock) "If I tell Jack I lied to his family he will never speak to me again. And Ox and Midge and Mary and Saul."
• (Jason Bernard) "Saul? Who's Saul?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "The next door neighbor. But you know what? Actually, he knows."
• (Jason Bernard) "Lucy, you are born into a family. You do not join them like you do the marines."
• (Sandra Bullock) "So what should I do?"
• (Jason Bernard) "Pull the plug."
• (Sandra Bullock) "You're sick."
• (Jason Bernard) "I'm sick? You're cheating on a vegetable."

• (Sandra Bullock) "The truth was that I fell in love with you."
• (Peter Boyle) "You fell in love with me?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "No, N-o, yes. All of you. I went from being all alone to being a fiancee, a daughter a granddaughter, a sister and a friend."

• (Sandra Bullock) "I'm in love with your son."
• (Peter Boyle) "I know."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Not that one."
• (Sandra Bullock) "That one."

Bill Pullman as Jack

• (Bill Pullman) "You stay here a lot, huh?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, you know, feed the cat."
• (Bill Pullman) "Peter doesn't have a cat."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, hello, honey, hi --"
• (Sandra Bullock) "-- Fluffy. Oh, Fluffy --"

• (Bill Pullman) "I want you -- not to be unhappy --"

• (Bill Pullman) "Hey, what do you know about my family? Spending a week with them does not make you an expert."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Spending a lifetime with them hasn't made you one, either."
• (Bill Pullman) "Yeah, well, I know that keeping your family happy gets complicated. Would your father be happy knowing you're sitting in a token booth, planning vacations that you aren't taking?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "No, he wouldn't. You're right. But you have no idea what it's like to be alone."
• (Bill Pullman) "Hey, you have Peter."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I don't have anybody."

• (Bill Pullman) "Tell me about your dad, what was he like?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "He was a lot like me, brown hair, flat chest."

• (Bill Pullman) "Maybe if we angle it a little."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I think it's wedged."
• (Bill Pullman) "Why don't you step back, I'm gonna try an old trick."
• (Sandra Bullock) "What's the trick?"
• (Bill Pullman) "Push it really hard."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Ok, push."
• (Bill Pullman) "I did."

• (Bill Pullman) "I guess I don't remember meeting you."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Well, that's probably because we've never met."
• (Bill Pullman) "That could have something to do with it."

• (Bill Pullman) "When did you start seeing Peter?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "September 17th."
• (Bill Pullman) "Three months, that's fast."
• (Sandra Bullock) "You have no idea."

• (Bill Pullman) "Hey, we'll have to get your picture for the mantle."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Of, of me?"
• (Bill Pullman) "No, of you and Peter."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I'm, I'm not that photogenic."
• (Bill Pullman) "I doubt that."

• (Bill Pullman) "You remember back in high school? I was starting to get really good at poker, went home with lots of lunch money? I got to know the principal's office really well. He always used to say to me "why can't you be more like your brother Peter". I was ok with that, I was proud of you and I was never jealous of anything that you had."
• (Bill Pullman) "Until now. I'll cut the deck. Highest card gets Lucy."
• (Bill Pullman) "All right. We'll make it best out of three."

Micole Mercurio as Midge Callaghan

• (Micole Mercurio) "These potatoes are so creamy. Mary mashed them."

• (Micole Mercurio) "Lucy? You came? Oh this is great. Hi, Saul. Hey, come on in, you two, it's freezing out here. Elsie made her egg nog."
• (Jack Warden) "A word to the wise; drink soda."

Michael Rispoli as Mr. Fusco

• (Michael Rispoli) ""Nature of claim: Christmas tree through window". How am I gonna put that on my insurance claim? They're still pissed about the fire we had when Joe Jr. barbecued in the stairwell."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I missed that."
• (Michael Rispoli) "Great sausage."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Listen, I'll pay for this."
• (Michael Rispoli) "Don't worry about it, my brother Giuli's in the glass business."

Jason Bernard as Jerry

• (Jason Bernard) "Peter?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "I gotta talk to you."
• (Jason Bernard) "Geez, he looks good."
• (Sandra Bullock) "That's not Peter. That's Jack."
• (Jason Bernard) "Uh, who's Jack again?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Peter's brother."
• (Jason Bernard) "Peter's the guy that's in a coma."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah."
• (Jason Bernard) "So then why did you bring Jack?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "I didn't bring Jack. He followed me here."
• (Jason Bernard) "So Jack's the fiancé?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "No, Peter."
• (Jason Bernard) "Peter doesn't even know you exist."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I know."
• (Jason Bernard) "So Jack is Peter?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah."
• (Jason Bernard) "Lucy."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah?"
• (Jason Bernard) "They have doctors for this kind of thing."

• (Jason Bernard) "What's this?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "A wedding invitation."
• (Jason Bernard) "Now wait a second. This is your wedding invitation."
• (Sandra Bullock) "So?"
• (Jason Bernard) "Whom are we marrying?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Peter Callaghan."
• (Jason Bernard) "The coma guy? Are you insane?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yes, Jerry. I'm insane. I go to work and I sit in a box like a veal. I work every holiday, I go home to a cat and now a rich and handsome man has asked me to marry him and I've said yes. OK. That makes me a total raving lunatic."
• (Jason Bernard) "The wedding is tomorrow."
• (Sandra Bullock) "I know it's tomorrow Jerry, but you know what? I even wish it were yesterday. Because that would mean that today I would be on my honeymoon, that I would finally have a stamp in my passport, and that it would say Italy on it."
• (Jason Bernard) "What happened to the other guy?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "He didn't want me."

• (Jason Bernard) "You're born into a family. You do not join them like you do the Marines."

• (Jason Bernard) "Lucy?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah?"
• (Jason Bernard) "They have doctors for this sort of thing."

Peter Boyle as Ox Callahan

• (Man at Church) "Will you please pipe down?"
• (Peter Boyle) "Hey, be nice pal-ly, we're in Church."
• (Man at Church) "You're disrupting the Mass."
• (Peter Boyle) "Who made you the Pope?"

• (Peter Boyle) "My guy -- has amnesia."

• (Peter Boyle) "Jesus Christ, Jack, you're running the business."
• (Bill Pullman) "That's something I'd like to talk to you about."
• (Micole Mercurio) "Talk about that later ok?"
• (Monica Keena) "Talk about it now, he can't kill you in church."

Glynis Johns as Elsie

• (Glynis Johns) "How did Joe Kelly get to be a lector? He takes marijuana."

• (Glynis Johns) "I don't drink anymore -- I don't drink any less, either."

• (Glynis Johns) "I could never make a good pot roast."
• (Jack Warden) "You need good beef. Argentina has great beef: beef, and Nazis."

• (Glynis Johns) "I like Mass better in Latin. It's nicer when you don't know what they're saying."

• (Glynis Johns) "Look at the bright side. He has more room in his jockey shorts."

Jack Warden as Saul

• (Jack Warden) "I couldn't love you any more if you were my own son. But the fact of the matter is, you're -- well you're a putz."
• (Peter Gallagher) "Is there a point to this?"

• (Jack Warden) "So, do you have any family?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "My mom died when I was really little and a couple of years ago my dad got sick so we moved from Indiana so he could go to research hospital."
• (Jack Warden) "Research. Another word for very expensive."
• (Sandra Bullock) "Yeah, I had to quit school and I started working for the CTA and about a year ago he decided he had had enough research and he passed away."

• (Jack Warden) "Did you know I'm Peter's godfather?"
• (Sandra Bullock) "Really? I thought you had to be catholic for that."
• (Jack Warden) "Ox fudged it over. He donated 50 folding chairs to Father O'Shea's bingo night."

Ally Walker as Ashley

• (Ally Walker) "All right, fine. I want my stuff back."
• (Peter Gallagher) "Then I want my stuff back."
• (Ally Walker) "What stuff?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "Your nose."
• (Ally Walker) "You can't have my nose back."
• (Peter Gallagher) "I paid for it."
• (Ally Walker) "Well then here. You paid for these too."

• (Ally Walker) "Peter Callahan is engaged to me. I object to this wedding."
• (Priest) "Get in line."
• (Ashley's husband) "And I object to your objection."
• (Monica Keena) "Who's that?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "Ashley's husband."
• (Micole Mercurio) "You proposed to a married woman?"
• (Peter Gallagher) "Yes. And I'm in a coma when my brother makes a play for my- sort of my fiancée"

• (Doorman) "You're not his fiancée."
• (Ally Walker) "Huh?"
• (Doorman) "Huh?"

Peter Gallagher as Peter

• (Peter Gallagher) "I'm making a clean start with Lucy. She is; She is; She -- What is she? She's --"
• (Bill Pullman) "I'd say that she gets under your skin as soon as you meet her. She drives you so nuts you don't know whether to hug her or, or just really arm wrestle her. She would go all the way to Europe just to get a stamp in her passport. I don't know if that amounts to insanity, or just being really, really -- likable."
• (Peter Gallagher) "No, that's not it."
• (Peter Gallagher) "But she's gotta be really special. She's gotta be. And I can spend the rest of my life finding out why."

• (Peter Gallagher) "Remember the squirrels?"
• (Bill Pullman) "Don't even say it."
• (Peter Gallagher) "First I knocked them out of their nest with a rock."
• (Bill Pullman) "Peter."
• (Peter Gallagher) "Then I saved them."

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