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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

Quotes

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

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  • Andie: Unattached?
  • Ben: Currently.
  • Andie: Likewise.
  • Ben: Surprising.
  • Andie: Psycho?
  • Ben: Rarely. Interested?
  • Andie: Perhaps.
  • Ben: Hungry?
  • Andie: Starving.
  • Ben: Leaving?
  • Andie: Now?
  • Andie: Our love fern! You let it die!
  • Ben: No, honey, it's just sleeping.
  • Andie: You can't lose something you never had.
  • Andie: True or False: All's fair in love and war.
  • Ben: True.
  • Andie: Great answer.
  • Ben: Good question!
  • Ben: So that's what I was, huh? I was a guinea pig. Somebody you can test your theories on?
  • Andie: Yeah, and I was just a girl somebody picked out in a bar.
  • Ben: Yeah, you know what? Big deal. Hell, now you can even use it as a little twist in your story.
  • Andie: That's a good idea. Maybe we should bet on it.
  • Ben: You know what, you did your job now, Andie.
  • Andie: Yes, I did.
  • Ben: You wanted to lose a guy in ten days, congratulations, you did it. You just lost him.
  • [walks away]
  • Andie: No I didn't Ben, 'cause you can't lose something you never had!
  • Ben: [to himself, on his balcony, waving goodbye to Andy before she gets in her cab] You're already falling in love with me.
  • Andie: I'm gonna make you wish you were dead.
  • [blows away a kiss to Ben up on his balcony]
  • Andie: Poor guy.
  • Andie: [thrusts herself onto Ben] Does Princess Sophia want to come out and play?
  • Ben: Who's Princess Sophia?
  • [Andie points at his crotch]
  • Ben: Nah-nah-nah, nah! Whoa, whoa, you're kidding me, right? Princess Sophia?
  • Andie: Little, big, little, big? I don't know. We will find out!
  • Ben: Alright listen, you can't name my... my member Princess Sophia.
  • Andie: Yes, I can!
  • Ben: Listen, if you are gonna name m... my member, alright, you gotta name it something hyper masculine, okay? Something like a Spike, a Butch, a Krull the Warrior King!
  • Andie: I love you, Binky... but I don't have to like you right now.
  • Thayer: Is she on something?
  • Ben: God I hope so.
  • [Moves his finger in circles next to his head, to indicate that he thinks Andie is crazy]
  • Andie: Are you saying I'm some kind of mental person?
  • [Andie is holding a platter of veggies and flings them at the guys and the middle of the poker table, then tosses the platter onto the table]
  • Ben: Excuse me, ma'am.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Holy crap!
  • Ben: Where's Andie Anderson?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Uh, she's not here.
  • Ben: Where is she?
  • Michelle Rubin: She quit.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: She's got an interview in Washington.
  • Ben: When is she leaving?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Today.
  • Ben: When?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Well, like, now.
  • Ben: You're not a therapist, are you?
  • Michelle Rubin: Oh, haha... no.
  • Ben: Good job, though. You owe me three hundred bucks.
  • [last lines]
  • Ben: Look who made the trip with me.
  • Andie: It's our love fern! Oh, Bennie-boo-boo, boo-boo.
  • Glenda: Now Andie, I hope you know that we expect you to come back here because you have held Ben to his lowest bullshit score since his tonsillectomy and we are thrilled!
  • Jack: LOWEST!
  • Andie: Why, were all his other girlfriends bullshit losers?
  • Glenda: What other girlfriends? You are the first girl he ever brought home! Don't you break his heart now!
  • Michelle Rubin: So, tell me, how long have you guys been seeing each other?
  • Andie: Seven days.
  • Michelle Rubin: Seven days. Interesting.
  • Ben: Is that too soon to be seeing a therapist?
  • Andie: Well, Ben, seven days isn't like a lifetime, or anything...
  • Ben: It's like a week.
  • Ben: Let's take a break because the woman is driving me crazy.
  • Tony: Which woman? Andie or Princess Sophia?
  • Andie: I want you to respect me.
  • Ben: I do. And, I want your respect.
  • Andie: I respect you for respecting me.
  • Ben: I respect that.
  • Thayer: That it?
  • Tony: That's it?
  • Ben: [points to purse on desk] That's it.
  • Tony: Have you looked inside?
  • Ben: No.
  • Thayer: Do you have an ethical problem with rifling through a woman's purse?
  • Ben: Uhh, yeah, I guess I do.
  • Tony: Well, it's hardly a purse, dude, it's more like a... clutch or something.
  • Ben: Guys, a woman's purse, alright, it's her secret source of power. Alright? There are many dark and dangerous things in there, that we, the male species, should know nothing about.
  • DeLauer Security: Look, just give me back the necklace, then you guys can go on and kill each other.
  • Ben: Look, look, look, wait a minute. The one night we even thought about having sex, all right, she up and decides she's going to nickname my...
  • Michelle Rubin: Penis?
  • Ben: Yeah. "Princess Sophia." You want to talk about shooting a man's horse? Whop! Come on!
  • Michelle Rubin: Oh, you are never going to pull this off.
  • Andie: Watch me. Tonight, I'll hook a guy. Tomorrow, pull the switch. Before the ten days are up, I'm going to have this guy running for his life.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: You're not going to burn his apartment down or bite him, or anything?
  • Andie: No! I'm going to limit myself to doing everything girls do wrong in relationships. Basically, everything we know guys hate. I'll be clingy, needy...
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Be touchy-feely.
  • Andie: Yeah.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Ooh, call him in the middle of the night and tell him everything you had to eat that day.
  • Michelle Rubin: What's wrong with that?
  • [Andie & Jeanie stare at Michelle]
  • Michelle Rubin: I'm kidding.
  • [Andie is holding a tissue in front of Ben's face]
  • Andie: C'mon, blow. Nobody likes a Mr. Sniffles.
  • Tony: Yeah, uh, I hate Mr. Sniffles.
  • Ben: That's what I'm talking about. Where's the sexy, cool, fun, smart, beautiful Andie that I knew? The one that wanted to be a serious journalist? You're up, you're down, you're here, you're there, you're like a frickin' one woman circus.
  • [Andie is making Ben's place girly, putting "chick" CDs in his CD player]
  • Andie: Sheryl, Tori, Sinead, Jewel, Fiona, Carly... Gang's all here!
  • [Andie starts crying when Ben places food in front of her]
  • Ben: Hey, what's wrong?
  • Andie: Nothing. It's beautiful.
  • Ben: Thank you.
  • Andie: You're beautiful. The game, the whole thing. It's just... I wish I ate meat. Mary had a little lamb, little lamb... You have to take it away before I gag.
  • [Andie dry heaves]
  • Andie: Benny boo boo... boo boo boo!
  • Tony: [Andie gives Ben a plaid Burberry button-down shirt] It looks like the inside of a raincoat.
  • Andie: Hey, listen, Sparky. I have a masters in journalism from Columbia, my boss loves me, and if I do it her way for a while, I can write about whatever I want.
  • Ben: Like, shoes?
  • Andie: [crying at restaurant after waitress asks if everything is okay] My boyfriend thinks I'm fat!
  • [flicks food at Ben]
  • Andie: And I can't eat in front of him! I can't eat in front of you! I have to go to the bathroom.
  • Ben: [receives dirty looks from other customers] Honey, I don't think you're fat! I don't think she's fat!
  • Andie: I don't think I can be with someone who doesn't like animals and thinks I'm a mental person
  • [waves her fingers and goes cross eyed]
  • Andie: Does Krull the Warrior King want to come out and play?
  • Ben: No.
  • Andie: Krull...
  • Ben: You know what, due to intense humiliation, the king has momentarily abdicated his throne, okay?
  • Andie: Oh. Uh-oh!
  • Ben: Yeah.
  • Andie: Well, in that case, I better get going. Take care of our love fern, honey.
  • Sensitive Moviegoer: Now, I'm going to go back inside and finish watching "Sleepless in Seattle". Nobody screw with me.
  • Tony: Tone-deaf and drunk is not a good combination.
  • Tony: Couples therapy, it'll buy you at least four days.
  • Ben: You see, the key to this game is being able to read people.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Drama, drama, drama.
  • Ben: [introducing Andie to his family] And this is Joey Jr.
  • Glenda: [to Jack, playing BS] Bullshit!
  • Ben: Now the whole family suffers from tourette's, I hope that's not a problem.
  • Ben: Hanging with her for 10 days is gonna be no problem.
  • Tony: Right. That's only nine days longer than you've ever spent with any other chick, huh?
  • Andie: I'm taking this love fern with me!
  • [repeated line]
  • Several characters: Bullshit!
  • Andie: Why do they always forget my bacon?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: I can't believe you got that guy knocked out.
  • Andie: Only for a few seconds.
  • Lana Jong: Andie, I am loving your notes on this piece.
  • Andie: [with her mouth full] Thank you, Lana.
  • Lana Jong: When are you seeing him again?
  • Andie: Tonight. He's inviting me over to his house for dinner.
  • Lana Jong: Excellent! I've got a feeling about this one.
  • Michelle Rubin: I hate it when she pops her head in like that.
  • Andie: I never noticed it.
  • Lana Jong: A-hem. I heard that. And Andie, tonight take smaller bites.
  • Andie: Thank you, Lana.
  • Michelle Rubin: Oh, my God!
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Disgusting! I can barely eat over here.
  • [Andie takes an even bigger bite]
  • Andie: I have to crack this guy. I mean this is Defcon 5, and I have to do something truly appalling. It's not funny.
  • [Michelle and Jeanie laugh even harder]
  • Lana Jong: Who's that chic Buddhist Richard Gere is always cavorting with?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: The Dali Lama?
  • Lana Jong: He's fabulous!
  • Jack: [Jack is introducing Andie to the family] You gotta watch him, he farts like a howitzer. But he's family, what are you gonna do?
  • Uncle Arnold: Intestinal complication!
  • Thayer: We, you know, we got a whole bunch of work we have to do, but we're still on for poker at your house this weekend?
  • Ben: Oh, you count on it.
  • Andie: Whoo! Boys' night.
  • Tony: Whoo!
  • Ben: Jesus! Five seconds ago I'm gay. Now I'm a pathological flirt.
  • Andie: I sweat when I get nervous.
  • Ben: Which one is it, Andie?
  • Ben: Besides, why would I need to hit on another woman?
  • Ben: You've got more than enough personalities to keep me completely occupied.
  • Andie: That was hurtful.
  • [first lines]
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: [reading] "And only then will the people of Tajikistan know true and lasting peace." Andie, it's brilliant. It's really moving. But it's never going to appear in Composure Magazine.
  • Andie: Like, do blondes, like, do they really have more fun?
  • Michelle Rubin: Why this place?
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: It's perfect. Hi, Ingrid.
  • Mullen's Hostess: Hi.
  • Jeannie Ashcroft: Mullen's is the apres-work watering hole for the upwardly mobile.
  • [Ben is trying to find words to be used as metaphors for diamonds]
  • Ben: How about 'Glitter'?
  • Tony: Thayer's favorite movie.
  • Thayer: It was underrated!
  • Andie: [wraps a diamond chocker around her wrist] This is real?
  • Mr. DeLauer: Oh, no, no, no, no. I insist. Such beauty should be celebrated.
  • [referring to the necklace he's holding up]
  • Mr. DeLauer: Isadora.
  • Andie: Oh no, I'm Andie.
  • Mr. DeLauer: And a pleasure to meet you, Andie, but this is Isadora. Turn.
  • [puts the necklace around Andie's neck]
  • Mr. DeLauer: 84 karats, named for Isadora Duncan.
  • Green: [referring to Andie] Congratulations. You got her here.
  • Ben: Yup.
  • Green: But the question remains.
  • Spears: Does she or doesn't she?
  • Ben: We're gonna find out.
  • Mr. DeLauer: An angel of God.
  • Andie: Thanks.
  • Mr. DeLauer: I am Frederic.
  • Andie: [shakes hand] Andie Anderson.
  • Spears: Well, it looks like you've got some competition, anyway.
  • Mr. DeLauer: Miss Anderson will be wearing Isadora for the evening. Enjoy the party, Andie.
  • [kisses her hand]
  • Andie: Merci beaucoup.
  • Andie: [singing] And all the girls dreamed that they'd be Ben's partner, they'd be Ben's partner.

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