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From The Perfect Storm (2000):

• Melissa Brown: This weather FAX just came in. Edie, have a look at this.
• Edie Bailey: We have got to head in now! Put in at Watch Hill!
• Alexander McAnally III: In this stuff, harbor's too dangerous.
• Melissa Brown: Dangerous?
• Alexander McAnally III: Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes...
• Edie Bailey: This is a hurricane coming straight at us!
• Melissa Brown: Let me reduce sails, Sandy, or even go bare poles.
• Alexander McAnally III: This is my boat. We're gonna ride this thing out, not for fun, for safety. Do what I've always done: go with the flow.

• Melissa Brown: Mayday! Mayday!
• Coast Guard: Sailing vessel Mistral. This is Coast Guard Rescue Falcon Jet 2141 on the way...
• Melissa Brown: Sandy! Edie! They heard me! They're coming!
• Edie Bailey: Ah! Ha! Ha! Ha!

From Voyage (1993, Made for TV):

[Talking about the Freeland couple they just met]
• Catherine "Kit" Norvell: You think she is attractive, don't you?
• Morgan Norvell: You think he is?
• Catherine "Kit" Norvell: Why do we always answer questions with questions?
• Morgan Norvell: How do you mean?

From Starman (1984):

• Starman: I send greetings.
• Trucker: What the hell's going on here?
• Jenny Hayden: I'm being kidnapped!
• Starman: Greetings.
• Trucker: You better let her go pal, I'll give you some greetings.

• Jenny Hayden: Love is when you care for someone else more than you care for yourself.

From Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981):

• Indiana: Hello, Marion.
• Marion: Indiana Jones! I always knew someday you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. So, what are you doing here in Nepal?
• Indiana: I need one of the pieces your father collected.
• Marion: I've learned to hate you in the last ten years.
• Indiana: I never meant to hurt you.
• Marion: I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it!
• Indiana: You knew what you were doing!
• Marion: Now I do! This is my place. Now get out!

• Indiana: Where's Abner? . . . Where is Abner?
• Marion: Abner's dead.
• Indiana: Marion, I'm sorry.
• Marion: Do you know what you did to me, to my life?
• Indiana: I can only say I'm sorry so many times.
• Marion: Well. . . say it again, anyway.
• Indiana: Sorry.
• Marion: Yeah, everybody's sorry. Abner was sorry for dragging me all over the earth looking for his little bits of junk. I'm sorry to still be stuck in this dive. Everybody's sorry for something.
• Indiana: It's a worthless bronze medallion, Marion -- are you gonna give it to me?
• Marion: Maybe. I don't know where it is.
• Indiana: Well, maybe . . . you could find it. Three thousand bucks.
• Marion: Well, that'll get me back [to the US], but not in style.
• Indiana: I can get you another two when we get to the States. It's important, Marion. Trust me. . . You know the piece I mean. You know where it is.
• Marion: (laughing) Come back tomorrow.
• Indiana: Why?
• Marion: Because I said so, that's why. . . Ha! See ya tomorrow, Indiana Jones.

• Marion: Well, Jones, least you haven't forgotten how to show a lady a good time!
• Indiana: Boy, you're something!
• Marion: Yeah? I'll tell you what. Until I get back my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your goddamn partner!

[Marion is being kidnapped]
• Marion: You can't do this to me, I'm am AMERICAN!

• Toth [to Marion]: We meet again, Fraülein. You Americans, you're all the same. . . Always overdressing for the wrong occasions. Now . . . what shall we talk about?

• Marion: How the hell are we gonna get outta here?
• Indiana: I'm workin' on it. I'm workin' on it.
• Marion: Whatever you're doin', do it faster.

• Marion: You're not the same man I knew ten years ago.
• Indiana: It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. . . Please! I don't need a nurse. I just want to sleep.
• Marion: Don't be such a baby.
• Indiana: Marion . . . leave me alone . . .
• Marion: What's this here?
• Indiana: Go away. Yes. It hurts!
• Marion: What about this?
• Indiana: Ow!
• Marion: Well, goddamnit Indy, where doesn't it hurt?
• Indiana: Here . . . here . . . This isn't too bad . . . here?
• Marion: Jones? Jones! We never seem to get a break, do we?

• Indiana: Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it no matter what happens.

• Marion: Hey, what happened? You don't look very happy.
• Indiana: Fools! Bureaucratic fools!
• Marion: What'd they say?
• Indiana: They don't know what they've got there.
• Marion: Well, I know what I've got here. Come on. I'll buy you a drink. You know . . . a drink?

From Cruising (1980):

• Nancy: Why don't you want me anymore?
• Steve: What I'm doing is affecting me.

From Animal House (1978):

• Boon: Where are you going? We just got here.
• Katy: No, Boon, you just got here. I've been downstairs for an hour entertaining some kid from Pig's Knuckle, Arkansas.
• Boon: Umm -- maybe we could drive up to your folks' place this weekend.
• Katy: Oh, fabulous. My car filled with your beer buddies going up to empty my parents' liquor cabinet. It's too depressing to think about.
• Boon: No! It's just gonna be you and me. And Otter and another girl.
• Katy: Is this really what you're gonna do for the rest of your life?
• Boon: What do you mean?
• Katy: I mean hanging around with a bunch of animals getting drunk every weekend.
• Boon: No! After I graduate, I'm gonna get drunk every night.

• Katy: Boon, I think I'm in love with a retard.
• Boon: Is he bigger than me?

• Boon: Now. I want you to fix Pinto up, but it's gotta be a very special girl.
• Pinto: Listen you don't have —
• Boon: Now, she should be decent looking, but we're willing to trade looks for a certain kind of morally casual attitude.
• Katy: Oh! You mean, you want someone he can screw on the first date?
• Boon: Well put.

• Boon: It's not gonna be an orgy! It's a toga party.
• Katy: Honestly, Boon, you're twenty-one years old. In six months you're going to graduate, and tomorrow night you're going to wrap yourself in a bedsheet and pour grain alcohol all over your head. It's cute, but I think I'll pass this time.
• Boon: Want me to go alone?
• Katy: Baby, I don't want you to go at all.
• Boon: It's a fraternity party, I'm in the fraternity. How can I miss it?
• Katy: I'll write you a note. I'll say you're too well to attend.

Quotes about Karen Allen from others

"Karen was the most professional actress to come into our readings. She was polished, and she came prepared. After that, we just kept saying, 'Not as good as Karen.'"

"Karen Allen is perhaps the most beguiling new face in American movies. It's only a matter of time before she and a decent leading role get together." (1980)

"I'm crazy about Karen Allen and don't care who knows it. . .
"More than any of her contemporaries, Allen projects empathy, accessibility, and sweet intelligence. . . this is more than a (very) pretty face; this is someone who'll understand."

"For some reason women just don't seem to get the consistent succession of roles to build on a first big part," mused Al Ruddy, producer of The Godfather and the forthcoming Farewell to the King. "Look at Karen Allen," the star of Raiders of the Lost Ark and little since. "They almost have to luck into them."

"[Karen] Allen has got to start demanding roles that don't define her as one long simpering glow. Enough!"

"[Karen Allen] shines with [beauty]. Thin lips that curl into frequent smiles. Eyes that dance. Exotic cheekbones. . . there's a kind of elegance about her."

"She cannot be bought. Money doesn't influence her."

"Karen Allen conveys magisterially both the delectable country girl (or mouse) that was and the sobered-up but still undefeated woman, capable of one more supreme, loving effort. Though a bit young and undented for the part, Miss Allen does haunting wonders with it. The dowdily disenchanted bearing, the defeminized gait, the gaze dilated with tacitly reproachful resignation -- these, and much else, add up to a performance of matchless nobility, the very bread and wine of acting."

"Karen Allen - a happy mist fogs my brain when she's on screen."

"Question: Who have been your favorite actresses to work with?"
"John Rhys-Davies: There are so many good ones. . . my beloved friend Karen Allen. . ."

"I threw snakes at Karen's head because I didn't think she was screaming for real. I set her on fire. I tossed a tarantula on her leg, but I always kissed her, gently, after every take."

"I love Karen Allen beyond adultery"

"It's great to have Karen back. I can't really tell you much, though. It's a little too early to be saying much more than what's already been said, and I don't want to be the one to unwrap the Christmas present."

"I may or may not have had a massive crush on Karen Allen, and may or may not have supported the entire DVD sales of Starman by myself!"

"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."

"[They were] a small group of actors in their 20s, run by a man who had experience with Peter Brook and Grotowski, and I spent five years with them, producing, directing and acting."

"I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House."

"Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality."

"Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it." (1980)

"I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life." (1980)

"Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws." (1982)

"[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give." (1982)

"I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life." (1990)

"[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in."

Quotes from readers of The Karen Allen Page

I was, in fact Karen's lab partner in Biology (10th grade Du Val High, Jack Renner teacher). She was not involved in dramatics at the time, perhaps to her credit. She was somewhat noted in HS for her resemblance to the TV "Dodge Girl".

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"I am impressed by the homage to Karen Allen. She is truly deserving of this tribute. As an extra for [Split Image], I was involved in most of the scenes . . . Karen was too sweet during the filming. At one point during a lull she sat on the ground with about 25-30 of us extras and just chatted. Impressive, smart and beautiful. A great talent."

"Also, Karen exhibits a natural beauty that is not so much `glamor' as it is honest sweetness. Her face basically `shines' with sincerity."

"I've always loved that sparkle in her eyes since I saw her in Raiders, so I'm glad to see the page appear."

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