Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998)

Jane Seymour: Dr. Quinn - Medicine Woman, Dr. Michaela Quinn

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• Byron Sully : Someone's wife is pretty mad.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : My goodness, she's angry. I feel sorry for the poor fellow. Whose teepee is it?

  Cloud Dancing : Mine.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You mean if I were Arapaho and you were Cheyenne...

  Byron Sully : We couldn't get married, nope.

  [pauses] 

  Byron Sully : I'd have to carry you off in the night.

• Byron Sully : Why did I come?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Yes.

  Byron Sully : I told ya.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What's the real reason?

  Byron Sully : Because.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Because...?

  Byron Sully : Because I love you.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : People who are popular when they're young... they often grow up to have very dull lives. And people who are different... they go on to be successful and make wonderful contributions.

  Colleen Cooper : Like who?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, like uh... like Abraham Lincoln!

  Colleen Cooper : Yeah, but they shot him!

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I know what everyone is saying about me, that I'm an old maid. But I don't need you to contribute.

  Colleen Cooper : That's not what people are sayin'.

  Brian Cooper : Yeah, no one's said nothin' about the maid part.

• Byron Sully : I don't want ya to leave. I wanna be with you. I *need* to be with you.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sully...

  Byron Sully : I will love you all my days. Will you marry me?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Yes.

• Byron Sully : We're the same two people we were before we got married. Nothin's changed.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : But it has. Everything's changed. It's no longer 'you' and 'me', it's 'us'. You're a part of me now. And that's a very powerful feeling.

• Byron Sully : You know what the Cheyanne ask a young man who's just taken a wife?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What?

  Byron Sully : 'Does she show enthusiasm?'... I appreciate your enthusiasm.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sully... In my heart I know where I want us to be. But I don't know how we'll get there.

  Byron Sully : Me neither... There's no maps, but if you're willing to start off without one...

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I am.

  Byron Sully : Then I know where to start.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I could use some advice... from someone who's had experience.

  Dorothy Jennings : Oh. Well, don't you worry. It's as easy as falling off a log.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Remember, I've never... fallen off a log.

• Byron Sully : I'll be your family.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : And I'll be your best friend.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You're right. I was jealous.

  Byron Sully : I know.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : It was foolish.

  Byron Sully : It was.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Must you agree with me *all* of the time?

• Byron Sully : You love David.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Yes, I'll always love him. But that's the past and you're the present... *we're* the present... If you'll have me... Will you, Sully?

  Byron Sully : [pauses]  Will I what?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Will you marry me?

  Byron Sully : ...Yes.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You know what Sam said? She said that seeing us together is like watching a fire burn.

  Byron Sully : Is that good?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, ignore a fire and it burns out. But if you tend to it, take care of it, feed it... it keeps growing bigger - burns brighter.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sully... it isn't dark yet.

  Byron Sully : [pulling the shades]  But it's getting darker... and darker... and darker.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [pulling the last shade]  ... and darker.

• Cloud Dancing : I am reminded of a story. It seems a young frog was trying to win the heart of a porcupine. His father said to him, "My son, how can you fall in love with a porcupine?" The young frog replied, "The skunk would not have me."

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [blank look] 

  Cloud Dancing : I'm afraid it loses something in the translation.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I can't say if your spirits exist or not. I'm not even sure how I feel about my own God anymore.

  Cloud Dancing : Just because we are angry with them does not mean they will go away.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : How long before we go?

  Byron Sully : You're not going. The women stay in camp.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Not this woman.

• Hank Lawson : What was I thinking? I had to be crazy! Any man puts up with your harpin's gotta be looney!

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Any man who doesn't care about his friends isn't much of a man.

  Hank Lawson : Don't worry Michaela, you're man enough for both of us.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, I never!

  Hank Lawson : Yeah, well maybe that's the problem.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Do you think a man can love two women at the same time?

  Byron Sully : If you were one of the women, would you want him to?

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [to Matthew]  I don't ever want to see you lying here, looking up at me and telling me you got shot for the right reasons. There are no right reasons to get shot.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Is it just me, or have I been pregnant for ten years?

  Byron Sully : It'll be over soon.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : And you've been saying that to me for ten years as well.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : May I ask you a question?

  Eddy : Yeah.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Why don't you have clothes on?

  Eddy : Well, I'm seventy-three years old. And I figure I can do as I damn well please.

• Byron Sully : Do you love 'im?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : How *dare* you ask me that! You, who have told me that you're not ready to love anyone! You, who comes and goes as he pleases! You, who never so much as offered any kind of committment to me and my children!

  Byron Sully : Do. You. *Love* 'im?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I'm very fond of the Reverend. And he's made me a proposal that no one, including you, has cared to do. And I don't take that lightly.

  Byron Sully : If marriage is all you want, then you've found the right man.

• Byron Sully : I'm good at fixin' things when I can see what's wrong. But, this thing that's comin', it's so big... I don't know where to start.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : We'll find a way. But I promise you, if the day ever comes that I see your heart breaking and you can't take it any longer, we'll pack up.

• Byron Sully : I like talking... and I like having breakfast with you. But I also like *kissin'*.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, there should be a balance.

  Byron Sully : But you're good at kissin'.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sully!

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You're looking very pleased with yourself.

  Byron Sully : When the children knock and you don't jump up, I know I got your attention.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Do you think most women find it agreeable?

  Grace : Sure.

  Myra Bing : If they're in love, they do.

  Dorothy Jennings : I think women find it more agreeable then men do. I *do*. I mean, the men don't wanna know it. It would just vex 'em.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [kissing Sully]  How can people say this is like brushing your teeth?

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Do I look as foolish as I feel?

  Byron Sully : I think you're beautiful when you're jealous.

• Rev. Timothy Johnson : What did I do wrong, Dr. Mike? I only wanted to do the right thing.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I know. They never asked us to share their religion, Reverend. Should we make them share ours?

  Rev. Timothy Johnson : They don't share our medicine, either, but you help them with it.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Medicine is different...

  Rev. Timothy Johnson : How? You took an oath to save lives with your medicine and I took an oath to save souls with my faith.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [gently]  I thought our job here was to educate their minds.

• Cloud Dancing : At Washita, I watched my life drain away with the blood of my people... Snowbird... Black Kettle. I came to the reservation where Utes fight Pawnee, Pawnee fight Arapaho. But now, the spirits have shown me a way to bring peace. They have shown me we are one blood... one people.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Cloud Dancing, this is admirable, but you can't sacrifice yourself.

  Cloud Dancing : You asked me before if I was protecting someone. I am protecting them all.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Tobacco? You know what that'll do for your tuberculosis?

  Kid Cole : No ma'am, but I'm sure you're plannin' on tellin' me.

• Dr. Cassidy : This is the best chance he has!

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : No, *I'm* the best chance!

  Dr. Cassidy : That's your opinion. But he's my patient and I'll decide what's best for him.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Dr. Cassidy, if my name was Michael Quinn and not Michaela, you'd let me perform that procedure wouldn't you?

  Dr. Cassidy : I don't give a damn what your name is. I know Drew. And I know he would much rather take his chances on a wagon trip to Denver than have a hysterical female cut him open!

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [after Drew is brought back, having died on the route to Denver]  What do you think his chances are now, doctor?

• Brian Cooper : [to Dr. Mike]  You toss apple peelin's over your shoulder and they spell out the initials of who you're going to marry.

  Colleen Cooper : You oughtta try it, Dr. Mike.

  Brian Cooper : Bet it'd be a big 'S'!

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [embarrassed]  Brian!

• [rehearsing Tybalt for the local production of Romeo and Juliet] 

  Hank Lawson : Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore, turn and draw! And I'll hack off your head before you can count to three.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Wait a minute. Stop. Stop. 'Hack off your head' is not in the play.

  Hank Lawson : I fixed that line a little.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You can't just change the lines, Hank.

  Hank Lawson : I think it's better. Not only that, it rhymes.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [sighs]  Actors!

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [to Sully]  Let's just elope. I don't care about any fancy wedding. All I care about is being your wife... and you being my husband... I'm ready to start looking at the world through *our* eyes.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You never told me you played baseball.

  Byron Sully : Just for fun. We used to play it in the mining camps.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : This rule book is very interesting. I never realized it was such an orderly and courteous game.

  Byron Sully : Not the way *we* played it.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Where does that leave Horace? He's been struggling at the plate. He's afraid of striking out.

  Byron Sully : He's not the only one...

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [discussing Colleen]  We were always so close.

  Byron Sully : Maybe that's the problem.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Beg your pardon?

  Byron Sully : She's gotta step outta your shadow. It's a mighty tall shadow.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I started thinking about how I planned everything. Then I realized something. The most important events in my life were things that I never planned. Things that I had no control over at all.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You did the right thing, Hank.

  Hank Lawson : Don't let it get around.

• Cloud Dancing : What of their true nature will survive if they live as white people?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : All we want to do is prepare them for the future.

  Byron Sully : They won't have a future if they don't have a past.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I always thought she was disappointed in me... when I left Boston to move out here... as if I'd somehow failed.

  Byron Sully : She was disappointed, or you?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [looks lovingly at Sully]  It was the best decision I ever made.

  Byron Sully : [smiling]  Glad to hear you say that.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What happened?

  Hank Lawson : Some guy cut me. How much to sew me up?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I thought you prefered the expertise of Mr. Slicker in these matters.

  Hank Lawson : Jake's drunk. Now can we talk later, when I'm not bleedin' to death?

• General George Custer : Dr. Quinn, you are a traitor.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I've dedicated my life to repairing the damage that men like you bring on this world and frankly, Mr. Custer, I don't want any more of your business.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Whenever anyone used to comment on my being my father's daughter, he used to tell them not to let my choice of profession fool them. That it was my mother I was most like, not him. It's the only thing he ever said that made me truly angry at him.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Pushy? I'm not pushy!

  Charlotte Cooper : Let's just call it headstrong.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sully says that everyone recognizes members of their own tribe.

  Louise Chambers : Who's Sully?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, that's something for a whole other picnic.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What took you so long?

  Byron Sully : I had to make my bat.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Don't be stubborn.

  Byron Sully : It's an old habit.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Give it up.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Don't we have enough?

  Byron Sully : You wanna learn to fish... ya gotta dig for worms.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Ha! Here's one.

  Byron Sully : Half worms don't count.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Why not?

  Byron Sully : It's fishin' rules.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You can't close your heart and give up on people. When you shut down the door, no one can get in.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : When I first thought that David had been killed, I felt as if my heart had been ripped out. I didn't believe that anything could ever hurt me as much again. Seeing my child go through it... It's worse.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Dorothy's overcome so much herself. I think she means this book to be inspirational. I'm sure she didn't mean to offend anyone.

  Hank Lawson : You read it?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I haven't had time yet. I'm looking forward to reading it this afternoon.

  Hank Lawson : Where exactly you gonna be when you're readin' it?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : The clinic, I suppose. Why?

  Hank Lawson : Might wanna steer clear of that part of town today, folks.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What was it this time?

  Byron Sully : She thought she saw a bear out the window.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : A bear?

  Byron Sully : It was a laundry tub. Took quite a fight, but I think I scared it off.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [to Sully]  It's been a while since we've had an adventure in the woods.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Oh, Sully, I don't wanna do this. I don't think I can.

  Byron Sully : Yes you can. You're doin' it right now. Pretty soon the baby'll be here... and your ten years of being pregnant are over.

• Byron Sully : The Cheyanne say that the dead carry their scars with them to the afterlife.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, I disagree. I believe it's the people who are left who carry the scars.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You're drunk.

  Doc Eli : That's an excellent diagnosis doctor.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Please, mother needs her rest!

  Elizabeth Quinn : Oh, nonsense. I feel perfectly well.

  Dr. William Burke : Doctor's orders.

  Elizabeth Quinn : A nap. But then I'm coming down for supper.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Mother...

  Elizabeth Quinn : And *that* is final.

  Dr. William Burke : Mother's orders.

• Hank Lawson : High stakes poker, Michaela. Bunch of stinkin' drunk men sittin' around a table gamblin', smokin', talkin' dirty and we'd like for you to come. Interested?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : No, thank you.

  Hank Lawson : Darn.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Do whatever you want to do with my mortgage. I'll practice in the street if I have to. I'll pitch a tent, I'll work from my wagon, but I will never, *never* give in to the likes of you!

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Horace, are you all right?

  Jake Slicker : How many fingers?

  Horace Bing : Chocolate.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I think he's finished for the day.

• Cloud Dancing : When you read a story, you cannot know who tells it - cannot see him, or hear his voice. If you cannot see his spirit, the story has no meaning.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, all we wanna do is give them a new way of learning, so they can have both ways.

  Byron Sully : Just so the new ways don't wipe out the old.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Sometimes I think you must really hate me, mother.

• Thaddeus Birch : I had a lady doctor take out my lumbago in St. Louis.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Took it right out, did she?

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I think we've had this discussion before Reverend. Do you or do you not answer to a higher power?

  Byron Sully : Maybe you better figure that out, Reverend.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : [to Jedediah Bancroft]  And I have a few words for you but propriety prevents me from saying them.

• Dr. Miriam Tilson : Michaela Quinn of Beacon Hill, out in the barren wilderness, scratching the ears of a wolf.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : As you said, things change.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : There're some mornings, I just want to stay in bed and hide under the covers. Or take a buggy ride out to the lake... not let anyone know where I am... Just let life go on without "Dr. Mike".

  Byron Sully : It would, ya know.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Why can't you accept me for what I am?

  Elizabeth Quinn : And what are you? You're an unmarried woman, trying to raise three children, in a shack, in the middle of nowhere... and offering your medical services to a bunch of back-woodsman, who pay you in potatoes and in chickens.

• Byron Sully : Why don't ya quit tryin' so hard?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Old habits.

  Byron Sully : Give 'em up.

• General Parker : You're not a bad doctor.

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : And you're not a bad general.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Dr. Cassidy, it's quite apparent that my definition of a woman will always differ from yours. So let's just agree to disagree and leave it at that, shall we?

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Isabelle, I'd like for you to stay. I wish I could just make my fear go away... or that I never felt it in the first place, but I can't... But my fear is irrelevent. You're sick and I can help. That's all that matters... Please? I want to be your doctor.

• Dr. Andrew Cook : How did he get the hernia?

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Lifting a pig... a *big* pig.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Wanted: Sheriff. Must be of strong moral fiber and have knowledge of the law.

  Kid Cole : There go most of your candidates right there.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : My life is very ordinary.

  Daniel Watkins : After my years of photographing the war I think an ordinary life is amazing. Especially if it's viewed from the proper angle.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : What happened to your plans to settle down, plant some rose bushes?

  Kid Cole : Boys like him kept tryin' to make me push up rose bushes instead of plantin' 'em.

• Loren Bray : They stole my purse!

  Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Well, I'm sorry that you were robbed, but I must say you're looking rather lovely this evening.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : Pinch running for Mr. Slicker will be Cloud Dancing.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : I thought Matthew was taking you fishing?

  Brian Cooper : He's too busy... kissin' Ingrid.

• Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn : You still racing horses?

  Dr. Cassidy : Of course. And are you still dressing up as men to ride them?