The Big Chill (1983)

JoBeth Williams: Karen

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Quotes 

• Sam Weber : So how's your life?

  Karen : Oh, great. How's yours?

  Sam Weber : Not so great.

  Karen : Ohhh, we're telling the truth.

• Karen : I know this is hard but it's all beautiful.

  Sarah : Yeah we put on a great funeral here.

  Michael : [sarcastically]  Yeah, maybe I'll have mine here.

  Sarah : We give first priority to people who kill themselves in one of our bathrooms.

  [the three stop smiling] 

  Sarah : That was a terrible thing to say... I don't know why I said that.

• Karen : You'll never get this many people to come to my funeral.

  Michael : Ohh, Karen, I'll come. And, you know... I'll bring a date.

• Sarah : I know he wasn't happy. That doesn't tell you much. I'd no idea how bad it was. I think he purposely wanted to cut off from all of us because he was so unhappy with where he was at.

  Nick : Hm.

  Karen : Is that true, Chloe? Did you feel that?

  Chloe : I don't know. We had some good times. I haven't met that many happy people in my life, how do they act?

  Nick : Mm hm.

• Karen : How about you Michael? So tell us about the world of big time journalism.

  Sam Weber : Yeah.

  Michael : Well iwhere I work we only have one editorial rule. You can't write anything longer than it takes your average person to take an average crap.

  [everyone laughs] 

  Michael : I'm getting tired of everything I write being read in the can.

  Harold : You can read Dostoyevsky in the can.

  Michael : Yes, but they can't finish it.

• Karen : [smoking a joint, passes it to Harold]  No... I know that Richard will always be faithful to me.

  Harold : [takes the joint, about to smoke it]  That's nice. You trust.

  Karen : [shaking her head]  Fear of herpes.

  [Harold stops short of putting the joint in his mouth] 

• Karen : So, you and Alex were living here?

  Chloe : We have a room downstairs. Well we did. I do. I'm the one who found him.

  Karen : Oh God. It must have been awful.

  Chloe : It was, it was a real mess.

  Karen : So, what are you gonna do now?

  Chloe : Oh, we cleaned it up.

• Nick : [in a high-pitched voice]  Hey. everyone, it's J.T. Lancer! Let's all go watch this incredible show!

  Sarah : Woo hoo!

  [everyone runs into the living room] 

  Karen : Come on, Sam.

  Sam Weber : [lagging behind]  Jesus!

• Michael : Everyone does everything just to get laid.

  Karen : Who said that? Freud?

  Michael : No, I did.

• Sam Weber : You know, Karen, if we had gotten married, we'd be going shopping like this.

  Karen : No, if we had gotten married I'd be doing this alone.