7th Heaven (TV Series)

Sympathy (2001)

Stephen Collins: Rev. Eric Camden

Quotes 

• Rev. Eric Camden : [to himself about Annie]  Why don't you just take your hormones and go drive someone else crazy besides me?

  Annie Camden : I heard that!

• Rev. Eric Camden : [to Annie]  The first year that I knew you, you were just like this. You in no uncertain terms told people of what you thought and that was one of the things that attracted me to you, that and the fact that there was never any predicting when you were going to tell someone what you thought. I remember you let my dad tell you like 27 times how to put a diaper on Matt before you told off the The Colonel like... like I'd wanted to tell off The Colonel my entire life.

  Annie Camden : What are you saying, I've always been a nut?

  Rev. Eric Camden : Pretty much but you've mellowed over the years. And now you're back without warning and it's a beautiful thing. I love you. I've always loved you and I'm always gonna love you, till death do us part. Even if it kills me.

• Rev. Eric Camden : [to Robbie and Lucy]  Are you two going out again?

  Lucy Camden : Come on, Dad. Robbie and I aren't dating. You have nothing to worry about. We're practically brother and sister.

  Rev. Eric Camden : [to himself]  It's the "practically" that worries me.

• Annie Camden : Robbie has offered to pay $200 a month, but he wants a three-year lease so he can stay here until he finishes college.

  Rev. Eric Camden : Three years? I mean... is he sure he wants to stay here for three years? Three years is a long time.

  Annie Camden : It's $7,200.

  Rev. Eric Camden : It'll go by like that.

  Annie Camden : Matt will probably go away next year to medical school and Lucy, being Lucy, could end up back in New York and Simon's probably gonna go away to college. So why shouldn't we rent the room to Robbie when it's finished?

  Rev. Eric Camden : Why not? It's $7,200 and James is busy.

  Annie Camden : Of course, if Mary ever came back...

  Rev. Eric Camden : I don't think Mary is coming back.

  Annie Camden : I want her to come back.

  Rev. Eric Camden : I want her to come back, too... when she's ready.

• Rev. Eric Camden : [to Annie]  We haven't spent time together... for a long time.

  Annie Camden : It's been a week.

  Rev. Eric Camden : A week is a long time when you're in love.

• Rev. Eric Camden : [to Matt about Annie]  You know, in some ways your mother hasn't changed since the first day I fell in love with her 20 years ago.

  Matt Camden : And in other ways?

  Rev. Eric Camden : She's mean. Really, really mean... I didn't mean it the way it sounded. I love her. It's just that lately it's a lot tougher to love her.

  Matt Camden : You know, I'm so glad I have to go to work because I don't like where this conversation is going.

• Annie Camden : [to Eric]  Lately, with all the changes I've been going through I found that sometimes I'm more comfortable in the company of women. I love you, but you know, sometimes I need to talk to a woman.

  Rev. Eric Camden : Why is that?

  Annie Camden : I don't know. Women: we're all part of a club. Rich, poor, fat, thin, happy, unhappy, we're all going through the same things. And you can be a lot of things for me, but no matter how hard you try, you'll never be a woman.

  Rev. Eric Camden : Never wanted to be until now, but I get your point. You and me, we're okay?

  Matt Camden : We're better than okay.

  Matt Camden : [to Eric and Annie]  I'm gonna be... a gynecologist.

  Rev. Eric Camden : Well, he does love women.

• Annie Camden : I'm quitting school.

  Rev. Eric Camden : What?

  Annie Camden : I'm quitting school. No more college.

  Rev. Eric Camden : I didn't know how much teaching meant to you.

  Annie Camden : Well, it's not the teaching really. It's being around kids. You know how much I've always loved having children in my life, working with them, helping them. You know, in a couple of years Sam and David... they'll be in school.

  Rev. Eric Camden : I'll help. I've always supported you in whatever you wanted to do. I love you. I want you to be happy.

  Annie Camden : I want to be happy, too.