The Way We Were (1973)

Robert Redford: Hubbell Gardiner

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• Hubbell Gardner : People are more important than their principles.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : People ARE their principles.

• Hubbell Gardner : You think you're easy? Compared to what, the Hundred Years' War?

• Katie Morosky Gardner : Wouldn't it be lovely if we were old? We'd have survived all this. Everything thing would be easy and uncomplicated; the way it was when we were young.

  Hubbell Gardner : Katie, it was never uncomplicated.

• Katie Morosky Gardner : I don't have the right style for you do I?

  Hubbell Gardner : No you don't have the right style.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : I'll change.

  Hubbell Gardner : No, don't change. You're your own girl, you have your own style.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : But then I won't have you. Why can't I have you?

  Hubbell Gardner : Because you push too hard, every damn minute. There's no time to ever relax and enjoy living. Every things too serious to be so serious.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : If I push too hard it's because I want things to be better, I want us to be better, I want you to be better. Sure I make waves you have I mean you have to. And I'll keep making them till your everything you should be and will be. You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.

  Hubbell Gardner : I know that.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Well then why?

  Hubbell Gardner : Do you think if I come back its going to be okay by magic? What's going to change? What's going to be different? We'll both be wrong, we'll both lose.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Couldn't we both win?

• Katie Morosky Gardner : You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or love you as much!

  Hubbell Gardner : I know that.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Well then, why?

• Hubbell Gardner : When you love someone, from Roosevelt to me, you go deaf, dumb and blind.

• Hubbell Gardner : You never give up, do you?

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Only when I'm absolutely forced to. But I'm a very good loser...

  Hubbell Gardner : Better than I am.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Well, I've had... more practice.

• Hubbell Gardner : Everything in the world that happens does not happen to you personally.

• Hubbell Gardner : [when Katie doesn't want to go to a party with Hubbell's friends]  Maybe something terrible will happen - maybe you'll have a good time.

• Hubbell Gardner : Are you really so sure of everything you're so sure of?

• [discussing advocacy for political causes] 

  Hubbell Gardner : I don't see how you can do it.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : And I don't see how you can't

• Katie Morosky Gardner : Your girl is lovely, Hubbell. Why don't you bring her for a drink when you come?

  Hubbell Gardner : I can't come, Katie. I can't...

  Katie Morosky Gardner : I know...

• Hubbell Gardner : [to Katie]  Are you really so sure of everything you're so sure of?

• Hubbell Gardner : A... two cheese burgers and four cokes.

  Katie Morosky Gardner : Onion?

  Hubbell Gardner : Yeah, in the cokes.

• Hubbell Gardner : The trouble with some people is they work too hard.

• [to Katie] 

  Hubbell Gardner : You hold on and I don't know how. And I wish I did. Maybe you were born committed... I can't get negative enough. I can't get angry enough. And I can't get positive enough.

• Hubbell Gardner : What kind of pie?