Thirtysomething (TV Series)

South by Southeast (1988)

Mel Harris: Hope Murdoch Steadman

Quotes 

• Hope Murdoch Steadman : She'll be 18.

  Michael Steadman : I don't think so.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Money on it. When you see this girl, the word "perky" will spring to your lips. She'll have a horse named Buttercup. No, Honey Butter. And she'll love children. She'll want to have lots and lots of them.

  Michael Steadman : I think Gar might surprise you this time. Something tells me he couldn't be this serious about an 18-year-old.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : And she'll want to impress us. She'll steer the conversation toward something she has great expertise in. Cats is my guess.

• Gary Shepherd : And if it is love, what does that mean? I mean, what is loving someone, actually loving someone, mean? Okay, let-let's start with the obvious. Caring. Being open.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Committing.

  Gary Shepherd : Committing. Hope, I said it! I said the "C" word. Just because I can say it doesn't mean I can do it.

  [cut to him at Michael and Elliot's office] 

  Gary Shepherd : Anyway, how am I supposed to know if she's the one I want to spend the rest of my life with?

  Elliot Weston : Is she, like, enormously endowed?

  Gary Shepherd : No.

  Elliot Weston : Why can't things ever be easy?