Ryan O'Neal credited as playing...
Oliver Barrett IV
- [first lines]
- Oliver Barrett IV: What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You look stupid and rich.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Well, what if I'm smart and poor?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: *I'm* smart and poor.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Well what makes you so smart?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: I wouldn't go out for coffee with you that's what.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Well what if I wasn't even gonna ask you to go out for coffee with me?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Well that's what makes you stupid.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny... I'm sorry.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Don't. Love means never having to say you're sorry.
- Oliver Barrett III: If you marry her now, I'll not give you the time of day.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Father, you don't know the time of day!
- [walks away]
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You're gonna flunk out if you just sit there watching me study.
- Oliver Barrett IV: I'm not watching you study. I'm studying.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Bullshit. You're looking at my legs.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Listen, Cavalieri, you're not that great looking.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: I know. But can I help it if you think so?
- [last lines]
- Oliver Barrett III: Oliver, why didn't you tell me? I made a couple of calls and as soon as I found out I jumped right in the car. Oliver, I want to help.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny's dead.
- Oliver Barrett III: I'm sorry...
- Oliver Barrett IV: [cuts him off] Love- love means never having to say you're sorry!
- [walks away]
- Oliver Barrett IV: Oh, how can you do it?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: What?
- Oliver Barrett IV: How can you see me and still love me?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: That's what it's about, preppy.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Screw Paris!
- Oliver Barrett IV: [surprised] What?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Screw Paris and music and all that stuff, you thought you stole for me ! I don't care, don't you believe that?
- Oliver Barrett IV: [crying, shakes his head no]
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Then get the hell out of here, I don't want you at my goddamn deathbed!
- [crying]
- Oliver Barrett IV: [first cries, then begins to smile] I believe you. I really do.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: [calm] That's better.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You're a preppy millionaire and I'm a social zero.
- Oliver Barrett IV: What does that have to do with going our separate ways? We're together now, aren't we? We're happy.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Look, Harvard is like this Santa Claus bag stuffed full of all kinds of crazy toys, but when the holiday is over...
- Oliver Barrett IV: This has been a little bit more than a holiday.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: They come home, shake you out, and you gotta go back where you belong.
- Oliver Barrett IV: You're going back to Cranston, Rhode Island and bake cookies?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Pastries. And don't make fun of my father!
- Oliver Barrett IV: Then, don't leave me, Jenny! Please.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: I never thought there was another world better than this one. I mean, what could be better than - Mozart? Or Bach? Or you?
- Oliver Barrett IV: Jenny? I'm up there with Bach and Mozart?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Uh-huh. And The Beatles.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Listen, preppy, I know you've got at least a few brains.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Really?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Yeah, you're hung up on me, aren't you?
- Oliver Barrett IV: Hey, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: I like your body.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: So, now I've seen a hockey game.
- Oliver Barrett IV: What'd you like best?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: When you were on your ass.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You're driving like a maniac!
- Oliver Barrett IV: This is Boston. Everybody drives like a maniac.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You're gonna kill us before your parents can murder us.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: You want to marry me?
- Oliver Barrett IV: Yeah.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Why?
- Oliver Barrett IV: Because.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: That's a good reason.
- Oliver Barrett III: What is it your people are in, Jennifer?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: My father bakes cookies.
- Oliver Barrett III: Oh, what's the name of his firm?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Phil's Bake Shop.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Of Cranston, Rhode lsland.
- Oliver Barrett III: How interesting.
- Mrs. Barrett: So your people are from Cranston, Jenny?
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Well, mostly. Actually mother came from Fall River.
- Oliver Barrett III: The Barretts have mills in Fall River.
- Oliver Barrett IV: And where they exploited the New England poor for generations.
- Oliver Barrett III: In the 19th century.
- Mrs. Barrett: When you inherit, Oliver, you can give all our money back as reparations.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Well, that's exactly what the philosopher Saint-Simon advocated.
- Oliver Barrett III: In the 18th century.
- Oliver Barrett IV: You look lovely, Jenny.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Bullshit.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Okay. Okay, you look terrible.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: No, I do not look terrible. I never look terrible. I look okay for Thursday evening, okay?
- Oliver Barrett IV: There's no poetry in "okay".
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Screw poetry, Oliver. Just tell me what you see.
- Oliver Barrett IV: I see you.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: That's poetry.
- Oliver Barrett IV: Come on, Jenny, I'm trying to concentrate.
- Jennifer Cavalieri: On what?
- Oliver Barrett IV: On how I'll total that Dartmouth bastard. Come on, Harvard, let's go!
- Jennifer Cavalieri: Are you a dirty player? Would you ever total me?