“When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.”
Josh Hartnett - Matthew

“- Homer Wells: I've never actually seen a lobster.
- Candy Kendall: Are you serious?
- Homer Wells: I've never seen the ocean either.
- Wally Worthington: You've never seen the ocean? That's not funny, that's serious.”
Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells
Charlize Theron - Candy Kendall
Paul Rudd - Wally Worthington

“- Emmy Brown: Good night.
- Georges Iscovescu: It's better than good! Somehow, these walls will not seem so empty inside. You will be here very close to me. Breathing in the same night.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Emmy Brown
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“- Rose Smith: Why are we eating early?
- Esther Smith: You certainly don't want the whole family sitting there drinking in every word while a man proposes to you long-distance.”

Lucille Bremer - Rose Smith
Judy Garland - Esther Smith

“I'm going to write you a letter every day you're gone. I know they won't deliver them. I won't even mail them, but I'm going to write them anyway. That way we'll kind of be in touch. That way we'll feel close.”

Phyllis Thaxter - Ellen Lawson