Thirtysomething (TV Series)
Separation (1988)
Mel Harris: Hope Murdoch Steadman
Quotes
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Michael Steadman : What is this?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Aunt Libby's hope chest.
Michael Steadman : She really did hate you.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : Is this Elliot's private reserve of chocolate syrup?
Nancy Krieger Weston : Surprised he didn't take it with him. Did he have a tantrum in your kitchen this morning?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : The tantrum was about the lack of donuts.
Nancy Krieger Weston : Yeah, well, at least I got him off of Twinkies for breakfast and Ring Dings for lunch. Is he trashing your place?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : He's not exactly housebroken, is he?
Nancy Krieger Weston : No. Once I saw him put sugar in Kool-Aid.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : No.
Nancy Krieger Weston : Yeah. At least you don't have to deal with that anymore.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : I bet you were really sexy when you were 15 and all frustrated. You probably still want to be like that.
Michael Steadman : Fast cars, absolutely. Always. Girls? I don't know. I always thought that you had to want girls. You know, only wimps settled down.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Yeah, first it's Gary, now it's Elliot. And then...
Michael Steadman : But, Hope, Hope, Hope, I don't think that anymore. Okay, sometimes I think it, but I don't believe it anymore.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I mean, we have this life, and-and I imagine you loving it as much as I do. I mean, am I kidding myself?
Michael Steadman : No. You're not. I am not gonna leave you.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : 'Til your mid-life crisis begins.
Michael Steadman : Oh, we have plenty of time until then.
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Michael Steadman : So, do you, like, hate Elliot, or what?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, Janey, no. Give me that stick. There. You play with the ball. Good girl. Yeah. No, I don't hate Elliot.
Michael Steadman : You just find him totally reprehensible and without redeeming social value because he had the audacity to have his marriage fail.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I don't think his marriage failed. I think he failed. I think he had a perfectly flawed, regular, difficult marriage like everybody else, and he couldn't handle it. And I just... don't understand men.
Michael Steadman : Uh-oh.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I mean, it's not like he's the first one who's ever done it.
Michael Steadman : Hope, my father is my father. Elliot is Elliot. I'm not either of them.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : You're not gonna leave me for your tennis teacher?
Michael Steadman : Sorry, I'm not gonna leave you at all. You're just gonna have to find something else to worry about.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : But you have fantasies.
Michael Steadman : Who doesn't?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I know. Fast cars and fast girls. I mean, it's like men are permanently 15.
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Elliot Weston : Boy, this is weird, me asking you how my kids are.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : I, um, took Ethan for ice cream; banana bubble gum.
Michael Steadman : Why didn't you take me?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Your father didn't walk out on you until you were 19.
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Melissa Steadman : What is this?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : My Aunt Libby's hope chest, and I hope it experiences spontaneous combustion.
Melissa Steadman : Oh, no, it's great.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : Really?
Melissa Steadman : Oh, yeah. It's the kind of thing...
[sitting on top of it]
Melissa Steadman : I mean, no one would ever buy this. It could only be inherited. It feels like family and home.
Hope Murdoch Steadman : You want it?
Melissa Steadman : God, no.
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Hope Murdoch Steadman : Elliot, please sit down.
Elliot Weston : No, that's okay. I never sit down when I eat breakfast. Go ahead. Do you have any donuts?
Hope Murdoch Steadman : [offering a box] Have an English muffin.
Elliot Weston : Oh, good.
Michael Steadman : [watching him take a bite] I think you're supposed to toast it.
Elliot Weston : These things aren't very sweet, are they?