Eulogy (2004)
Zooey Deschanel: Kate Collins
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Quotes
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Kate Collins : Hey, hey, hey! You guys! Could one of you *please* tell me one nice thing I can say about your dead father
Lucy Collins : [after a long pause] He often called me Andrea for no reason.
Daniel Collins : I was Barry.
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Kate Collins : [reading a letter from Ryan out loud] Did you really leave me again? After all the seasons I spent waiting, watching out the window, listening at the door, waiting for the news of your return? for the news that you realized that someone important was waiting for you. A whole lifetime I've been waiting. I can't believe you're not coming back. I can't believe I'm supposed to stop waiting. I can't believe you left me again...
[ends letter]
Kate Collins : Grandpa didn't leave because of you, it was because of you he kept coming back. I hope you all realize that.
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Kate Collins : I'm sorry about Grandpa.
Lucy Collins : Oh, Katie! Nobody blames you!
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Daniel Collins : Hey, did we have a blackout last night?
Kate Collins : That's what I heard.
Skip Collins : Yeah, we sure did. I couldn't even find my room.
[Lucy smacks him with a newspaper]
Skip Collins : What?
Lucy Collins : You found my room all right.
Skip Collins : It was dark.
Lucy Collins : So you hid in my closet? With your *kids*?
Skip Collins : [shouts] We were lost!
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Skip Collins : Pop loved poetry.
Kate Collins : He did.
Skip Collins : Yeah. All the ones about Nantucket.
Skip Collins : I think his favorite was about a little handicapped girl. There once was a girl who was crippled, by the weight of her overgrown nipple.
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Kate Collins : Uncle Skip and the twins were a little heavy with hormones, but they were at those ages...
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Kate Collins : My family still observes a cocktail hour with a vengeance.
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Alice Collins : I'm sorry, I live in the real world. I work hard at raising a decent family. You don't see me prancing around in my pajamas all day, starting up pillow fights with my topless girlfriend...
Kate Collins : ...What are we talking about?
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[first lines]
Kate Collins : [practicing out loud] Hey, you don't know me... I don't know you...
Kate Collins : [narration] Twice in my life I've had to deliver bad news to someone I'd never met. The first time involved a cat that ran out in the middle of my driver's test. This time was a bit trickier.
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Kate Collins : [narration] My grandmother always said she wished Alice came with a mute button.
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Kate Collins : [narrating about his dad] You may remember him as the Spiffy peanut butter kid. My dad's the one with a spoon in his mouth.
Commercial Dad : What is it son?
Young Daniel : Something is stuck to my tongue.
Kate Collins : [narrating] Must be *weird* to have your career *peak* at 8. Now, he works mostly in obscure foreign films.
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Kate Collins : [narrating] He always acted like he had a crush on me. And I always acted like I didn't notice.
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Delilah the Neighbor : [crying] Poor Barbara!
Kate Collins : What do you mean?
Delilah the Neighbor : I don't know what to say.
Kate Collins : You're not Barbara?
Delilah the Neighbor : Edmund was the best neighbor I ever had.
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Kate Collins : [after putting the video tape in Barbara's mailbox] I'll explain on the way.