Quantum Leap (TV Series)

Private Dancer - October 6, 1979 (1991)

Rhondee Beriault: Diana Quinna

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Quotes 

• [Diana is angry with Sam - as Rod - and rants at him in sign language] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : What are you saying? I... I... I don't understand you.

  Diana Quinna : Good. Now you know what the world feels like to me!

• Dr. Sam Beckett : Why don't you tell people that you're deaf?

  Diana Quinna : Why should I? When the people know I'm deaf, they feel sorry for me or treat me like I have the plague.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, maybe... maybe that's because they don't want to seem stupid.

  Diana Quinna : Stupid?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Not you. Hearing people, like me. I mean... to tell you the truth, I really don't know how to talk to you.

  Diana Quinna : Just talk. I can read your lips. I may not get everything - maybe half. Unless you cover your mouth, turn away or speak fast.

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Well, that's why you couldn't understand Otto.

  [Diana doesn't know who that is] 

  Dr. Sam Beckett : Otto, the bartender with the mustache.

  Diana Quinna : You mean, walrus?

  Dr. Sam Beckett : [Sam laughs]  Yeah.

  Diana Quinna : How he expects me to know what he's saying with all this hair growing over his lips?

• Dr. Sam Beckett : I can't imagine what it would be like to live without ever hearing music.

  Diana Quinna : I know music in a way that you will never know. When I look around, I see music everywhere. There's the music in the stars. The way they sparkle. I feel them. There's music in the light as they dance on the water at night. And how the leaves chase each other, laughing. Like children that play. When I feel the wind on my face, the wind is my music.