7th Heaven (1996–2007)

Mackenzie Rosman: Ruthie Camden

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• Ruthie : Do you have to have special clothes to feel special? I just put on a clean pair of underwear and I feel great.

• [Annie is showing Ruthie her baby book] 

  Annie : See my tummy? That's you.

  Ruthie : Maybe I never should have come out.

  Annie : But... look what you would've missed... riding on Daddy's shoulders... and Simon rocking you on the front porch... and Mary... giving you a bath in the kitchen sink.

  Ruthie : My butt was a lot smaller then.

  Annie : All of our... bottoms were a lot smaller then.

• Ruthie : I'm going to be an inferior decorator.

• Martin : Maybe someday I'll marry a girl with a lot of brothers and sisters.

  Ruthie : Yeah, maybe you will.

• Simon : Hey, what's going on?

  Ruthie : Go away.

  Simon : Go away? Come on, it's... it's me, it's Simon... I'm your favorite sibling, I'm the guy you shared a room with, let me in... come on, Cecilia already won't talk to me, I can't take you not talking to me too.

• Simon : Who do you think you are, grabbing the phone out of my hand like that?

  Ruthie : Someone who needed to make a phone call and I made it, so you can have your stupid phone back.

  Simon : Isn't it a rule in this house that we have to respect each other or at least pretend to respect each other?

  Ruthie : Well, no one respects me. No one even pretends to.

• Ruthie : You've got money, you've got new clothes, and women are unexplainably attracted to you. Are you Spiderman or something?

• Simon : Ruthie... how ya doing?

  Ruthie : Fine, how are you doing?

  Simon : Fine... but I'm not in school.

  Ruthie : ...bye.

  Simon : Wait... how is school?

  Ruthie : Fine, except for algerbra.

  Simon : You're lying... no one said anything to you about me?

  Ruthie : Well, why would they?

  Simon : Becase I'm your brother and... the kid on the bike was your age.

  Ruthie : He didn't go to my school.

  Simon : Look, you don't have to protect me. I have it easier than you, I'm not in school.

  Ruthie : [hugs him]  Simon, no one has it harder than you.

• Ruthie : [to Robbie and Lucy]  By the power invested in me, in *me*, I now pronounce you a couple. You may now kiss you ex-girlfriend's sister. You know, you guys should really go on a talk show.

• Ruthie : Martin Brewer loves me, finally.

• Ruthie : You're the worst babysitter I ever had.

  Simon : That's not what you said two hours ago.

  Ruthie : Yeah, well that was before you made me wear the staircase.

• Ruthie : Bad words make me sound bad.

  Simon : No, bad words make you sound stupid.

• Ruthie : You two better not make a lot of noise and wreck my date.

  Simon : It's not a date, it's a play date. You're eight. I'm going on a date.

  Annie : It's not a date, you're twelve. It's a birthday dinner.

• Ruthie : Good night, Simon, love you.

  Simon : Yeah... I love you too... but you don't have to say it every night.

• Ruthie : Nice duds. Does Santa know you stole his elfs' pajamas?

• [Ben is talking to Ruthie on the phone] 

  Ruthie : My parents can't get divorced, you big ape, I won't let them!

• Simon : [to Deena]  What about Ruthie as Maid of Honor?

  Ruthie : No thanks. I don't want to be anyone's maid. I don't clean good. No elbow power.

• [Eric and Annie are taking Ruthie into school for her first day of Kindergarten] 

  Ruthie : You took him?

  Eric : We took all of you.

  Ruthie : He told me he took a cab and paid for it all by himself.

  Eric : Cabs are very cheap on Planet Simon.

• Ruthie : I don't think I'll be wearing this hat any more.

  Simon : [completely unaware that his sister dropped it in the toilet]  Hey, I'll take it.

  Ruthie : Okay.

• Guy : Stupid Americans.

  Eric , Annie , Ruthie , Simon , Mary , Lucy , Matt : [all at same time]  We heard that!