Scoop (2006)

Scarlett Johansson: Sondra Pransky

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• Sondra Pransky : You are a cynical crapehanger who always see the glass half-empty!

  Sid Waterman : No, you're wrong. I see the glass half full, but of poison.

• Sondra Pransky : I wouldn't be surprised if he asked me to marry him someday.

  Sid Waterman : You come from an orthodox family, would they accept a serial killer?

• Sondra Pransky : Look, I can't just go up to him and say, "Hi, how are you?" I mean, it would make him suspicious. So, you know - anything - he gets... put off or...

  Sid Waterman : Drown!

  Sondra Pransky : What?

  Sid Waterman : Drown! Drown! I'll go get co-, I'll go get co...

  Sondra Pransky : [shakes her head]  Ach...

  Sid Waterman : Listen to me! I'll go get coffee, you get a cramp. Go into the water, flounder around, you know...

  Sondra Pransky : [sighs]  Ahh...

  Sid Waterman : Yes! Go ahead, sweetheart. That's, that's a great idea. He'll oblige to save you that way and if he doesn't, you know, then I'll notify your parents.

• Sid Waterman : We need to put our heads together.

  Sondra Pransky : If you put OUR heads together, you'll hear a hollow noise.

• Sondra Pransky : Why don't you think about this as adding some excitement to your life?

  Sid Waterman : Sweeheart, excitement in my life is dinner without heartburn after it.

• Sid Waterman : Did you accomplish anything besides a possible pregnancy?

  Sondra Pransky : I'll tell you what I did see: his mother, Lady Eleanor, has short-cut, brunette hair.

  Sid Waterman : [stuttering]  Yeah, but not a hooker?

  Sondra Pransky : [shocked pause]  No, Sidney, she's not a hooker! I hardly think so. She's practically royalty. Christ, you amaze me sometimes. Your brain!

• Peter Lyman : [about Sondra]  It's just so ironic. Because the way I first met her, I rescued her from drowning in our club pool, and she was a very, very weak swimmer.

  Sondra Pransky : Hello?

  [Peter turns and stares as Sondra comes into the room] 

  Sondra Pransky : I was faking at the pool to get your attention. Actually, I used to be captain of the Brooklyn Community swim team.

  [she smiles] 

• Sid Waterman : You're the daughter I never had.

  Sondra Pransky : [touched]  Oh, Sidney...

  Sid Waterman : No, no, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Cause I never wanted to have kids. I didn't because you have kids... what is it? You know you're nice to them... you bring them up... you suffer... y-you take care of them... and then they grow up and... and... and they accuse... uh... you of having Alzheimer's.

• Sondra Pransky : Dad, I need to talk to you. Right now.

  [serious] 

  Sid Waterman : Right now, sweetie? I was just about to pull some quarters out of Mrs. Quincy's nose!

• Joe Strombel : This'll be the biggest story to hit London since Jack the Ripper.

  Sondra Pransky : Jack the Ripper. Is that capitalized?

• Sondra Pransky : How can we meet him?

  Sid Waterman : You know, I don't know... They have a class system. He's an aristocrat and, you know, we're... we're commoners. In fact according to his system, we're... I think we're probably classified as scum.

• Sondra Pransky : What are you putting in your metamucil?

• Sid Waterman : Not everything in this world is sinister... just practically everything.

  Sondra Pransky : Ugh... the Indian food made me sick.

  Sid Waterman : What? You barely touched your cobra salad, how can you be sick?

• Peter Lyman : What's wrong? Are you crying?

  Sondra Pransky : No, I'm too tough to cry. My nasal passages do get congested when I'm sad, though.

• Peter Lyman : I just can't get the vision of you in your swimsuit out of my head.

  Sondra Pransky : Oh I'm glad you liked it! It was marked down!

• Sondra Pransky : Do you have a family?

  Sid Waterman : I had a wife but sh... she dumped me if you can believe that.

  Sondra Pransky : Somehow...

  Sid Waterman : She thought I was immature and that I never grew up... I had a great rebuttal for her, I coulda nailed her, you know, but uh... I raised my hand, she would *not* call on me.

• Sondra Pransky : Why would Peter kill a prostitute?

  Sid Waterman : Because it looks bad on his resume!

• Sondra Pransky : He asked me to go dancing with him.

  Sid Waterman : That's perfect strategy. You worm your way in like a rodent or a roach, and as the crumbs fall off the table, you collect them and we analyze them.

• Sondra Pransky : [Speaking of Strombel]  Look, the spirit appeared next to me. at first I thought he was one of your stooges.

  Sid Waterman : I don't work with stooges. You know, because you gotta pay them health benefits.

• Sid Waterman : Maybe he's got another woman on the side, and he likes you, but he's sexually attracted to her.

  Sondra Pransky : Thanks, Sidney!

• [From trailer] 

  Sondra Pransky : This guy is a serial killer! He could just kill at any moment!

  Sid Waterman : Yeah, I heard that part. That's when I knew I was gonna make other plans.

• [From trailer] 

  Sondra Pransky : What are you going to tell the police? "The guy owns a deck of tarot cards... " that's not a crime!

• Sid Waterman : You're a pretty girl. You know, I think you could probably get this guy to get interested in you.

  Sondra Pransky : Oh, you're silly...

  Sid Waterman : Yeah, particularly if he's got a twisted mind.

• Sondra Pransky : [to Sid]  Stop telling people I sprang from your loins!

• Peter Lyman : You take after your father.

  Sondra Pransky : [sarcastically]  Great.

• Sondra Pransky : [Peter told them he'd be out of town but then they spotted him across the street]  I just can't believe he lied to me!

  Sid Waterman : Maybe he's just doing something he's ashamed of, like maybe he belongs to these clubs where he dresses up as a crossdresser, or maybe he does folk dancing!

• Sid Waterman : What about Indian food, do you like spicy food?

  Sondra Pransky : No, no, it's OK, I don't have that much of an appetite.

  Sid Waterman : But you will, when they bring out the prawns in hydrochloric acid...

• Sondra Pransky : I think it's time that we show my story to a real journalist.

  Sid Waterman : What do you mean, a real journalist?

  Sondra Pransky : One that's living.

• Desk Clerk : Peter Lyman. Yes, came in a few minutes ago.

  Sid Waterman : What color bathing suit does he have on?

  Sondra Pransky : Hey, what...?

  Sid Waterman : I - do you want me clash with him?

  [scoffs] 

• Sid Waterman : [at Peter Lyman's garden party]  Should we hit the buffet table first, though? Because the stuff looks great.

  Sondra Pransky : No, Dad! Remember, we wanted to look around.

  Sid Waterman : Yes, of course, of course, blessed offspring.

• Sid Waterman : Where are you from, Sondra? No, no, no. Don't tell me; because, I got a great ear for that kind of thing. Eh, Alabama? Am I right.

  Sondra Pransky : Close. I'm from Brooklyn.

• Sondra Pransky : The point is, I didn't get the story! If I'd used my feminine wiles, like Katherine Hepburn or Rosalind Russell.

• Sondra Pransky : Don't tickle me.

• Sondra Pransky : I can't wear contacts. I don't like to put my finger on my eyeball.

• Peter Lyman : You have a very sensual quality. It's - but I'm sure you've been told that.

  Sondra Pransky : Wow. You work really fast.

  Peter Lyman : Oh, God. Am I overbearingly aggressive? I'll stop.

  Sondra Pransky : Oh, no, don't! You just were getting warmed up.

• Sondra Pransky : Get out of my life! I'm not cut out for this. I should be flossing molars for a living.

• Vivian : Who's Jade Spence?

  Sondra Pransky : A would-be investigative reporter who has fallen in love with the object of her investigation.

• Sondra Pransky : I slept with him and I didn't even get the interview. I mean what kind of reporter am I?

• Joe Strombel : You're a journalist, right?

  Sondra Pransky : Oh, my God. What are you doing in here?

  Joe Strombel : Aren't you a journalist? Yeah? I mean, those are the vibrations I've been concentrating on.

• Sondra Pransky : This is a big story. No kidding. That's what Joe Strombel said. That's why he's returned. You know, this is his last big scoop.

• Sid Waterman : No, darling, I do not think it's a good idea.

  Sondra Pransky : It's a very good idea!

• Peter Lyman : That was as great as I imagined it would be. You look beautiful. And pensive.

  Sondra Pransky : No, not pensive. Just confused.

  Peter Lyman : Women after lovemaking, it's always so complicated.

• Sondra Pransky : The truth is, I'm crazy about the guy. I can't keep obsessing over tantalizing conspiracy theories!