Sarah Hughes Quotes in Fever Pitch (1997)

Sarah Hughes: Paul, it's only a game!

Paul Ashworth: DON'T SAY THAT! Please! That is the worst, most stupid thing anyone could say! Cause it quite clearly isn't "only a game." I mean if it was do you honestly think I'd care this much? Eh? Eighteen years! Eight-teen years! Do you know what you wanted eighteen years ago? Or ten? Or five? Did you want to be Head of Year at North London Comprehensive, I doubt it. I'd doubt if you wanted anything for that long. And if you had, and if you'd spent three months thinking that finally, FINALLY you were gonna get it and just when you think it's there it's taken away from you... I mean I don't care what it is, a car, a job, an Oscar, the baby... then you'd understand how I was feeling tonight. But there isn't, and you don't, so...

Sarah Hughes: So, so what, so fuck off, go home, leave you alone? I'll tell you something Paul, there isn't anything that I've wanted for eighteen years, cause I was a kid eighteen years ago. And if I did still want the same things I'd think I'd gone wrong somewhere, because actually I don't want to marry David Cassidy, I don't want bigger tits, I don't want to do better on my mock-Os. I've stopped worrying about that kind of thing and maybe you should try.

Paul Ashworth: Well maybe there's a big bit of you that's gone missing somewhere, maybe everyone should want something they've always wanted.

Paul Ashworth: May I smoke?

Sarah Hughes: No. You can stay the night, though, if you want.

Paul Ashworth: I wouldn't put that on. It... you know... not the right mood.

Sarah Hughes: Oh? And what's the right mood?

Paul Ashworth: Well... I don't know. Just something...

Sarah Hughes: What?

Paul Ashworth: You know... just... something not as sweary and loud.

Sarah Hughes: Paul, that's the most romantic thing you've ever said to me.

Paul Ashworth: [smiling] Shut up.

Jo: [regarding Sarah's sudden interest in her boyfriend's favorite team] It's all a sinister form of male manipulation.

Sarah Hughes: Rubbish!

Jo: It's true! You get colonized! Your native culture gets driven out, and it's replaced by stuff that you don't like and don't even want to know about.

Sarah Hughes: So you don't get many Micky Thomas moments in real life?

Paul Ashworth: You don't a lot in football either.

Paul Ashworth: Would you like a lift?

Sarah Hughes: You don't know where I live.

Paul Ashworth: Yes I do, Crouch End. It's on my way home.

Sarah Hughes: [Sarah gets in the car] How about you?

Paul Ashworth: Arsenal.

Sarah Hughes: Inside the stadium, or just nearby?

Sarah Hughes: What are those?

Paul Ashworth: My Arsenal boxer shorts. But they're not my best ones, I was running out...

Sarah Hughes: But you're willing to show them to another human being?

Sarah Hughes: I don't think that Arsenal's home form is a sturdy enough basis for marriage and parenthood, do you?

Paul Ashworth: No. Not even this season.