Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

P.O.V. (2004)

Becky Wahlstrom: Grace Polk

Quotes 

• Adam Rove : I can't talk to you like this, okay?

  Joan Girardi : Adam. Yes, you can. Just act natural.

  Grace Polk : [approaching]  That's an oxymoron. The minute you turn on the camera, you're distorting reality. It's Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

  Joan Girardi : You sound like my brother.

  Grace Polk : Then I will shut up. And I will walk away.

• Luke Girardi : You've been avoiding me.

  Grace Polk : Not successfully, it seems.

  Luke Girardi : You said you were gonna tell me how things were going.

  Grace Polk : Very well for my mother. She made it through two bottles of wine at dinner.

  Luke Girardi : You keeping your journal?

  Grace Polk : Yeah. But it's mostly free-form swearing. I'm just not the journal type.

• Grace Polk : [letting Luke into her room]  Speak, creep.

  Luke Girardi : I like it. It's, uh... it's a little tidier than I thought it'd be.

  Grace Polk : I'm not tidy. I just thought you should be able to walk in here, that's all.

  Luke Girardi : That's nice, thanks.

  Grace Polk : "Nice". "Tidy". Do you have a death wish?

• Luke Girardi : Oh, dude! Splash. The original Beanie Baby.

  Grace Polk : That's the first inflationary bubble of our lifetime. My mom stood in line at 5:00 in the morning to get the second run. It opened my eyes to the dangers of captialism.

  Luke Girardi : I have Pinchers.

  Grace Polk : The lobster?

  Luke Girardi : Originally released under the name Punchers. Retired in 1987, which briefly inflated the price to over $5,000. A-A classic lesson that any economic system is subject to the whims of human emotion.

  Grace Polk : And easily exploited by the rapacious elite.

  Luke Girardi : The cool calculation of science meets the heated imprecision of economic theory.