I Am Sam (2001)

Sean Penn: Sam Dawson

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Quotes 

• Lucy : I won't read the word!

  Sam : I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.

  Lucy : I'm stupid.

  Sam : You are not stupid!

  Lucy : Yes, I am.

  Sam : No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.

  Lucy : I don't wanna read it if you can't.

  Sam : No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.

  Lucy : [Lucy reads again] 

• Rita : I just don't know what to call you: retarded, mentally retarded, mentally handicapped, mentally disabled, intellectually handicapped, intellectually disabled, developementally disabled...

  Sam : You can call me Sam.

• Lucy : Daddy, did God made for you to be like this or was it an accident?

  Sam : Ok, what do you mean?

  Lucy : I mean you're different.

  Sam : But what do you mean?

  Lucy : You're not like other daddies.

  Sam : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry.

  Lucy : It's ok, daddy. It's ok. Don't be sorry. I'm lucky. Nobody else's daddy ever comes to the park.

  Sam : Yeah! Yeah! Yeah, we are lucky. Aren't we lucky? Yeah!

• Sam : Yeah, but I tried, I tried hard.

  Rita : Try harder!

  Sam : Yeah, but you don't know, you don't know!

  Rita : I don't know WHAT?

  Sam : Yeah, you don't know what is like when you try, and you try, and you try, and you try, and you don't ever get there! Because you were born perfect and I was born like this, and you're perfect!

  Rita : Oh, is that right?

  Sam : People like you don't know...

  Rita : People like me?

  Sam : People like you don't know what is like to get hurted. Because you don't have feelings. People like you don't feel anything!

• Lucy : Why are men bald?

  Sam : Sometimes they're bald because their head is shiny and they don't have hair on it. So their head is just more of their face.

• Sam : OK, remember when Paul McCartney wrote the song "Michelle" and then he only wrote the first part, Annie said. And then he gave that part to John Lennon, and he wrote the part that said, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And Annie said that it wouldn't have been the same song without that... and that's why the whole world cried when the Beatles broke up on April 10, 1970.

• Sam : Lucy doesn't need me anymore. She has a new family now... and she doesn't need me anymore.

  Rita : Is that what she said?

  Sam : It's because I know that. Because I just know that.

  Rita : Well. That's the first stupid thing I've ever heard you say.

• Sam : You've grown.

  Lucy : Have I?

  Sam : Yeah, 'cause your ears are bigger and your eyes are older.

• Rita : Sam, I worry. I worry sometimes.

  Sam : Yeah... do you worry that you did something wrong?

  Rita : No. I worry that I've gotten more out of this relationship than you.

• Sam : You think what they think.

  Rita : It doesn't matter what I think. It matters that we win.

  Sam : No, you think what they think. You think Sam can't take care of Lucy!

  Rita : Sam, it doesn't matter what I think!

  Sam : It matters to me!

• Sam : You're going a little faster than everybody else. I was wondering if you noticed that.

• Rita : Can you grasp the concept of manipulating the truth... not lying, just a little tweak here and there?

  Sam : [thinks for a few seconds]  No.

• Brad : I think you should sound like, a normal person... from the heart! From... the... heart!

  Ifty : From the heart

  Sam : This argh okay hello thank you for calling this is Saaaaaaaam

  Ifty : Wow!

  Brad : I feel that was a very thouching moment right there.

  Ifty : I, I, I, I felt that one

  Sam : High five!

  All : High five!

• Sam : YOU'RE MY LAWYER!

  Rita : That's right.

  Sam : OKAY!

• Sam : [to Lucy]  I love you like a song. I love you like in a song.

• [in Rita's car] 

  Rita : On the Porsche the door handle is a little hidden by that thingamajig, so if you're having trouble finding it...

  Annie : NO!

  Sam : Ok, I think maybe Annie's not exactly ready to go yet.

• Randy Carpenter : Sam, you're early.

  Sam : Yeah. Well, all the lights were green. When I was walking here, all the lights were green.

  Randy Carpenter : You know what? There is a reason for the court schedule. You stopped showing up. Lucy's had to rebuild her whole life, Sam.

  Sam : I want her back. I-I know I can get her back.

  Randy Carpenter : Well, that's not up to me. But I'm just gonna tell you I'm gonna do everything in my power to protect that little girl from getting hurt again. Whose dogs are these?

  Sam : These are supplemental income. Supplemental income because I wash and I walk and I feed the dogs. Sam Dawson has everything for you canine needs.

  Randy Carpenter : Let me go get your daughter.