Vanessa Wetherhold Quotes in Smart People (2008)

Vanessa Wetherhold: Everybody hates me.

Chuck Wetherhold: If you tell people they're stupid, they'll usually hate you.

Vanessa Wetherhold: [drunk] What's it like... to be stupid?

Brooke: What's it like sitting by yourself at lunch every day?

Vanessa Wetherhold: It sucks.

Vanessa Wetherhold: I actually got accepted to Standford 2 weeks ago.

Chuck Wetherhold: Really? But Carnegie Mellon is free for you, and Standford's - I don't know - 600, 700 hundred

Vanessa Wetherhold: Forty grand...

Chuck Wetherhold: Well your father's gonna kill you. But for the time being I'm filled with pride.

James Wetherhold: Vanessa here is the perfect little housewife. I mean daughter.

Vanessa Wetherhold: Yes, if by perfect you mean not retarded, slash suffering from insurmountable credit card debt, then yes, I'm indeed perfect.

Vanessa Wetherhold: [in the hospital with her dad] So, what happened to your head?

Lawrence Wetherhold: [groggy] It's all a blur.

Vanessa Wetherhold: [stressed] I'm in an after-school special.

Vanessa Wetherhold: I think he smelled the pot!

Vanessa Wetherhold: You should really make your bed. It sets the tone for the day.

Chuck Wetherhold: But, how do you know what tone I was trying to set?

Lawrence Wetherhold: I don't think you're very happy Vanessa.

Vanessa Wetherhold: Well, you're not happy. And you're my role model.

Vanessa Wetherhold: Theresa Sternbridge practically runs a soup kitchen and she's always seen posing in photos with crack babies and dying, old, crusty ladies. And do you know why? She scored in the 45th percentile on her SAT. People like you and me don't need to compensate.

Lawrence Wetherhold: Just go home and get some sleep, and get the perfect SAT score.

Vanessa Wetherhold: That's what I've been trying to do.

Lawrence Wetherhold: mercurial...

Vanessa Wetherhold: I learned that word in the 5th grade.

Lawrence Wetherhold: fecundity...

Vanessa Wetherhold: Ah, English is my first language.

Lawrence Wetherhold: uxorious...

Vanessa Wetherhold: That's appropriately obscure - mind you I know it. Overly fond of one's wife.

Lawrence Wetherhold: That's my girl.

Janet Hartigan: I have a good one. eft...

Vanessa Wetherhold: Let me ponder... Short in stature. Diminutive.

Janet Hartigan: No I'm sorry, eft is a young newt.

Vanessa Wetherhold: Dad if there are *any* romantic inklings, you're simply not ready. I mean the socio-sexual mores

Vanessa Wetherhold: Ah and look, let's not forget the stigma attached to widowers.

Vanessa Wetherhold: I don't want you to feel uncomfortable around me, okay? I completely respect your homosexuality, and I will refrain from any further untoward advances.

Chuck Wetherhold: Truth be told, I started dating someone. Someone my own age.

Vanessa Wetherhold: What's his name?

Chuck Wetherhold: Her name... is none of your business. I will be staying at *her* apartment a couple of nights a week.

Vanessa Wetherhold: So does she know you're gay?