Starting Over (1979)

Candice Bergen: Jessica Potter

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• Jessica Potter : [singing]  Cause once the feeling's gone, It's better to move on...

• Jessica Potter : [singing]  It's gonna be easy for you, To do what you got to do, Stand up on your own, You got it made, It's gonna be harder for me, But this woman's, Got a right to be, More than, A shadow of her man...

• Jessica Potter : Honey, you can't drag this out, you know. It's not gonna make it any less awful. What's left to say, anyway?

  Phil Potter : That I'm glad that we were married.

• Jessica Potter : I just can't believe this is actually taking place. I'm actually living my fantasy.

• Jessica Potter : [singing]  Better than ever, I'm better than ever, You'll never go, Looking for anyone else, I needed some time, Till I found myself, And now I'm better than ever...

• Jessica Potter : Well, how do I look, anyway?

  Phil Potter : As good as you wanted to look.

  Jessica Potter : That good, huh?

  Phil Potter : That good.

• Jessica Potter : Would it help if I let you hit me in the arm or something?

• Jessica Potter : So you're still mad at me.

  Phil Potter : Why should I be mad at you?

  Jessica Potter : Because I went to bed with your boss and broke up our marriage.

  Phil Potter : Oh, that. You're right, Jessie. I am still mad at you.

• Jessica Potter : It just occurred to me that this might all be about what's her name. I'm sorry. I owe you more than that. It's Marilyn. Marilyn Holmberg, isn't it? 5' 7", 125 pound Marilyn Holmberg. And isn't that what all this is about?

• Phil Potter : I need terrific. I need wonderful. I need love.

  Jessica Potter : I need a half a pound of potato salad and a loaf of rye bread, please.

• Jessica Potter : You know, when we made love last night.

  Phil Potter : I know what you're gonna say. You don't have to say it.

  Jessica Potter : [whispers]  I had a vaginal orgasm.

  [smiles] 

• Jessica Potter : I'm very embarrassed by the way I behaved tonight and I, well, I don't know quite what to say now, except the thing about love is that you can really make an ass of yourself.