Grand Theft Auto (1977)

Nancy Morgan: Paula Powers

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• [last lines] 

  Paula Powers : So, where do you think we'll be on our 50th anniversary?

  Sam Freeman : Right here. I'm not getting out of the car.

  Paula Powers : Whoa-ho-ho-ho!

  [kisses him] 

• Sam Freeman : There once was a girl from LA / Who was determined to go all the way / Her mother screamed no / Her father yelled 'Whoa' / But they married the first day in May.

  Paula Powers : And then they rolled in the hay.

• Paula Powers : [noticing Collins driving alongside her and signaling her to put her window down]  Oh, God!

  Sam Freeman : What's the matter?

  Paula Powers : It's Collins Hedgeworth.

  Sam Freeman : He looks a little frazzled. You want me to talk to him?

  Paula Powers : I will.

  [rolls down her window] 

  Paula Powers : Collins, I don't need your help!

  Collins Hedgeworth : [holds up his riding crop]  I'm here to save you!

  Paula Powers : I'm sorry if you misunderstood, but we're not engaged! We never were engaged!

  Collins Hedgeworth : Has he got a gun on you?

  Paula Powers : No! Please leave us alone!

  Collins Hedgeworth : Is there a bomb in the car?

  Sam Freeman : [Paula rolls her eyes and closes the window. Collins frantically bangs on the window with the riding crop as Sam crawls into the back seat and puts down the window]  Look, it's obvious she doesn't want to talk to you, so why don't you just drop it?

  Collins Hedgeworth : I hesitate to do this with Paula in the car, but I am a superior driver and I'll batter you into submission if need be! I will bump you off this highway!

• Paula Powers : I'm gonna beat him to Vegas! Aren't you excited?

  Sam Freeman : Well, beating your old man doesn't really make my day. You know what I mean?

  Paula Powers : Well, you would if you knew him like I do.

  Sam Freeman : Well, it's a circus, Paula! We got a cockamamie circus on our hands!

  Paula Powers : I couldn't care less what my father thinks of you.

  Sam Freeman : Well, this whole thing between you and me. It makes me feel like I'm the man in the middle. I am! I'm the man in the middle!

  Paula Powers : Sam, why are you dragging your feet?

  Sam Freeman : Dragging my feet? I'm rushing to the chapel at a hundred miles an hour! You don't call that dragging my feet?

  Paula Powers : I don't like your attitude.

  Sam Freeman : Well, what do you expect, dog tricks?

• Paula Powers : [after Bigby throws Sam out of the house]  How dare you call Sam Freeman a fortune hunter? He's an environmental research major!

  Bigby Powers : Come here. Let me show you something. I want to show you something.

  [he goes over to a display stand to unveil a red cloth revealing a vote for governor sign with Bigby's photo on it] 

  Paula Powers : Dad, I already seen your picture.

  Bigby Powers : I have planning on this for seven years and I'd expect a little cooperation from you.

  Paula Powers : I'll do anything I can to help you, but...

  Bigby Powers : [throws the cloth down in frustration]  Then forget Sam what's-his-face!

  Paula Powers : Dad...

  Bigby Powers : Collins Hedgeworth is the richest, the finest, the most suitable young man in the country.

  Paula Powers : He's a flake!

  Priscilla Powers : Oh, I think you're exaggerating!

  Paula Powers : I'm not marrying Collins Hedgeworth! I'm marrying Sam Freeman, just as soon as we get to Las Vegas!

  Bigby Powers : You do that and I'll disinherit you. I'll cut off your credit! I'll take away that goddamn sports car of yours!

  Paula Powers : No! I bought that myself with my own money!

  [she reaches for the keys on the table, but Bigby snatches them and laughs mockingly] 

  Paula Powers : I'm going up to my room.

  Bigby Powers : Well, go to your room!

• Paula Powers : [after pulling in an abandoned junkyard to settle an argument]  Do you want to go through with this or not?

  [Sam doesn't answer] 

  Paula Powers : Well?

  Sam Freeman : Well, I don't think it should be what I want or what you want. I just think it should be what we both want, what's right for us.

  Paula Powers : That's what I've been trying to do.

  Sam Freeman : Yeah?

  Paula Powers : Yeah.

  Sam Freeman : You took your father's car, you didn't work it out with your ex-fiancee.

  Paula Powers : He was never my fiancee.

  Sam Freeman : Well, whatever he was, he turned the whole thing into a carnival! On top of that, you flatly refused to change our destination, even though we got, god knows, how many nuts out there trying to stop us. Now, let me tell you something, that was not US making those decisions.

  Paula Powers : [on the verge of tears]  You're really making me mad, Sam.

  Sam Freeman : Did you ever think, as soon as you get over the excitement of defying your old man and beating him to Las Vegas...

  Paula Powers : Sam...

  Sam Freeman : No, just let me say this because this has been bothering me. Did you ever think that you might miss being rich because let me just tell you something, I couldn't care less about big cars or mansions or making a million dollars!

  Paula Powers : I couldn't either. I don't care about those things.

  Sam Freeman : Yes, you do! You grew up with those things. You're gonna miss those things. It's gonna bug you to be poor.

  Sam Freeman : Why are you so worried about money and my father? I thought we decided to get married, now you seemed to have changed your mind.

  Sam Freeman : Well, hell! We went this far, didn't we?

  [starts back to the car] 

  Sam Freeman : Let's just go through with it, okay?

  Paula Powers : No! you go on without me!

  Sam Freeman : Will you get in the car?

  Paula Powers : Forget it! He really spoiled it for us!

  Sam Freeman : [firmly]  Paula, get in this car!

  Paula Powers : [sobbing]  No! Not until we make a decision! Now, if you don't have faith in our love and if you don't think it's strong enough to overcome the obstacles, then we shouldn't bother. The whole thing wasn't worth it!