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Scream 1996 - Movie PosterMovie/TV title:

Scream (1996)
Crime and Mystery, Horror Thriller Film


Character name:
Gale Weathers

Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers in Scream 1996

Quote(s)
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*Gale runs across the school campus to Dewey*
Gale: Is there a problem on campus?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: No. Everything's under control.
Gale: *seductively* Well, of course. You're here.
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: You're not supposed to be here.
Gale: I know. I should be in New York covering the Sharon Stone stalker, but who knew? *giggles*
Gale: You look awfully young to be a police officer.
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: I'm 25 years old.
Gale: You know, in a demographic study, I proved to be most popular amongst males 11 to 24. I guess I just missed you. *giggles flirtatiously*
Gale: Of course, you don't look a day over 12. Except in that... *She looks him up and down, admiringly*
Gale: ... upper torso area. Does the force require you to work out?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: *Charmed, despite his common sense:* No, ma'am. 'Cause of my boyish good looks, muscle mass has increased my acceptance as a serious police officer.
*They smile at each other*

Gale: Jesus, the camera, hurry!
Kenny: My name isn't Jesus.

Gale: Look, Kenny, I know you're about fifty pounds overweight, but when I say hurry, please interpret that as MOVE YOUR FAT TUB OF LARD ASS NOW!

Gale: If I'm right about this, I could save a man's life. Do you know what that would do for my book sales?

Gale Weather: Oh, God, Kenny, I'm sorry, but get off my fucking windshield!

Gale: Guess I remembered the safety that time, bastard.

Gale: Looks like we've got a serial killer on our hands!
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: Well, a "serial killer" is not really accurate. Gotta knock off a couple more to get that title.
Gale: Well, we can help, can't we? I mean, we certainly don't have any leads. Have you located Sidney's father yet?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: No, not yet.
Gale: Well, he's not a suspect, is he?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: We haven't ruled him out as a possibility.
*He becomes aware that he is gazing too long at her eyes*
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: If you'll excuse me.
*Dewey turns away, but Gale pursues and grabs his arm*
Gale: I'm sorry, am I keeping you?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: *Turning back to her, he removes his hat* If I may say so, Miss Weathers, you are much prettier in person.
*He gives her a flirty smile and turns away again to run up the school steps*
Gale: *delighted* So you do watch the show!
*Dewey stops and turns back*
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: I'm 25. I was 24 for a whole year.

Gale: Okay I think it's going to go something like this, just stay with me. Hi, this is Gale Weathers with an exclusive eyewitness account of this amazing breaking story. Several more local teens are dead, bringing to an end the harrowing mystery of the masked killings that has terrified this peaceful community like the plot of some scary movie. It all began with the scream of a 911, and ended in a bloodbath that has rocked the town of Woodsboro. All played out here in this peaceful farmhouse, far from the crimes and the sirens of the larger cities that its residents have fled. Okay, let's take it back to one. Come on, move it! This is my big shot. Let's go.
Scream 2 1997 - Movie Poster
Movie/TV title:

Scream 2 (1997)
Crime and Mystery, Horror Thriller Film
Character name:

Gale Weathers
Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers in Scream 2

Quote(s):
Gale: It's happening again, isn't it?
Dewey: You'd love that, wouldn't you? Better hurry Gale, might get scooped.

Gale: Look, local woman! I know you hold me up as your career template and that it gives you some sort of charge to challenge me, but give it a rest.

Gale: Hey, you'd better check your conscience at the door sweetie, I'm not here to be loved.

Gale: So what do you want to do, bonehead? Just sit around and wait to see who drops next?
Dewey: I don't know.
*Gale's phone rings*
Dewey: Phonehead!

Dewey: When did she start smoking?
Randy: Ever since those nude pictures on the internet.
Gale: It was just my head, it was Jennifer Aniston's body!

Gale: I feel bad Dewey, I feel really bad! I never say that cause I never feel bad about anything, but I feel bad now.
Dewey: Is this just another brilliant Gale Weathers performance?
Gale: There are no cameras here, I just wanna find this fucker! I really do.

Gale: So I am heading down to Admissions to do some legwork, you game?
Dewey: I'm not here to write a book Miss Weathers, I'm here to help Syd.
Gale: I wanna help her too, and help myself, of course. Come on Dewey, smile for me once, please!
Dewey: I'll smile when I catch the killer.

Debbie: Please Miss Weathers, it would just be such an honor if I could get a quote from you for my story.
Gale: All right. Begin quote.
Debbie: Great.
Gale: Your flattering remarks are both desperate and obvious. End quote!

Joel: Look, granted, I should've read your book before I took this job, but I'm reading it now and, whoa! I just read what happened to your last camera man. The guy got gutted. Now I'm gonna do what any rational human being would do and that is to get the fuck outta here
Gale: First of all, he wasn't gutted; I made that part up... his throat was slashed.
Joel: Gail, gutted, slashed, the guy ain't in the union no more.

Sydney: *referring to who the killer is* Mrs. Loomis?
Gale: *shocked* What?
Mickey: BILLY'S MOTHER!
*Gale turns around and sees Mickey*
Mickey: Nice twist huh? Didn't see it coming, did you?
*laughs*
Gale: *still shocked* Jesus. It can't be, I've seen pictures of you.
Sydney: Yeah this is 60 pounds and a lot of work later.
Debbie: *takes off her trench coat* It's called a makeover. You should try it. Look a little tired yourself there, Gale!

Scream 3 2000 - Movie Poster
Movie/TV title:

Scream 3 (2000)
Crime and Mystery, Horror Thriller Film


Character name:

Gale Weathers

Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers

Quote(s):
Gale Weathers: Deja voodoo.

Gale Weathers: I'm sorry that things didn't work out with Brad Pitt, but being single, that's a pretty good fallback.
Jennifer Jolie: It gives me more time for my work. After all, Gale Weathers, you're such a complex character.
Gale Weathers: And to be played by an actress with such depth and range.

Jennifer Jolie: Gale Weathers!
Gale Weathers: *says quietly* Shit.
Jennifer Jolie: I know we've never met... and I know you never returned my phone call, but after getting into this project, I feel like I'm in your mind.
Gale Weathers: Hmm, that would explain my constant headaches.
Jennifer Jolie: You know, I'm sorry things didn't work for 60 minutes II, but Total Entertainment, that's a pretty good fallback.
Gale Weathers: Thank you. I'm sorry things didn't work out with Brad Pitt, but being single, that's a good fallback.
Jennifer Jolie: Gives me more time for my work. After all, Gale Weathers, you're such a complex character.
Gale Weathers: And to be played by an actress with such depth and range...

*Jennifer is studying Gale in order to play her character*
Jennifer Jolie: The ruthless ambition, your private self-loathing, and that lost and lonely little girl inside.
Gale Weathers: Lost and lonely what?
Jennifer Jolie: You heard me.
Gale Weathers: Lost and lonely what?

Jennifer Jolie: You know, in the movies, I play you as being much smarter.
Gale Weathers: And as a sane person. For you that must be quite a stretch.

Tom: Hey. It's the real Gale Weathers.
Gale Weathers: Real from top to bottom.

Gale Weathers: I did write the definitive book on the Woodsboro Murders.
Dewey: And I'm sure you just can't wait to write another one.

Dewey: The killer called her.
Mark: When?
Gale Weathers: What'd he say?
Sidney: Oh you know the usual small talk. "What's new?" "How you been?" "How do you wanna die?"

Gale Weathers: Hey, are you...?
Bianca Burnette: No.
Jennifer Jolie: But you look just...
Bianca Burnette: ...like her? I've been hearing it all my life.
Jennifer Jolie: It's uncanny.
Bianca Burnette: I was up for Princess Leia. I was this close. So, who gets it? The one who sleeps with George Lucas.
Gale Weathers: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up a sore subject for you.
Bianca Burnette: Sure, you didn't. None of them did. So, how can I help you? Or do you want me to tell you who you look like?

Jennifer Jolie: The way I see it, I've got no house, no bodyguard, no movie, and I'm being stalked. Because someone wants to kill me? No, because someone wants to kill you. So now, starting now, I go where you go. That way, if someone wants to kill me, I'll be with you, and since he really wants to kill you, he won't kill me, he'll kill you. Make sense?
Gale Weathers: NONE

Jennifer Jolie: Jese!
Gale Weathers: What the hell are you doing?
Jennifer Jolie: Being Gale Weathers! What are you doing?
Gale Weathers: I *am* Gale Weathers!
Jennifer Jolie: Here's how I see it. I've got no house, no bodyguard, no movie and I'm being stalked. Because someone wants to kill me? No, because someone wants to kill you. So, now, starting now, I go where you go. So that if someone wants to kill me, I'll be with you and since they really wanna kill you, they won't kill me, they'll kill you, make sense?
Gale Weathers: *shouts* None!
Jennifer Jolie: You know in the movies, I play you as being much smarter!
Gale Weathers: And as a sane person, for you that must be quite a stretch!
Jennifer Jolie: That's funny.
Gale Weathers: Ha!
Jennifer Jolie: Need to get in that building?
Gale Weathers: Yeah!
Jennifer Jolie: Is there a story in that building?

*interrupting a moment between Dewey and Gale*
Jennifer Jolie: *shouting* What the fuck happened to you?
Dwight 'Dewey' Riley: Jennifer, wait a minute.
Jennifer Jolie: Who gave you a place to stay? Who are you supposed to be protecting?
Dwight 'Dewey' Riley: Jennifer.
*Jennifer slugs Dewey*
Gale Weathers: Hey!
*Gale slugs Jennifer*
Jennifer Jolie: My. Lawyer. Liked. That.
Gale Weathers: Not as much as I did.

Jennifer Jolie: Is he dead?
*as Gale looks at Jay's bloody body*
Gale Weathers: Really!

Movie/TV title:
F.R.I.E.N.D.S
TV Comedy Sitcom

Friends

Character name:
Monica Geller
(and then later on after marrying Chandler,
was referred to as Monica Geller - Bing)

Monica Geller

A Compilation of the Best Quotes from Monica:
*For the full compilation of Monicas Quotes, click here.
Monica: God, this is so hard. I can't decide between lamb or duck.
Chandler: Well, of course, lambs are scarier. Otherwise the movie would've been called Silence of the Ducks.

Friends

Phoebe: Neslay Toulouse.
Monica: Nestle Toll House?
Phoebe: You Americans always butcher the French language.

Phoebe: I didn't know Playboy prints jokes.
Ross: Yeah, they print jokes, interviews, hard-hitting journalism. It's not just about the pictures!
Monica: It didn't work on mom, it's not going to work on us.

Phoebe: It's a Wonderful Life. Yes, I've heard of this.
Monica: So you can't lose! It's there in the title. Wonderfulness is baked right in.
Phoebe: Please. I almost fell for that with, uh, Pride of the Yankees. I thought I was gonna see a film about Yankee pride, and then — boom! — the guy gets Lou Gehrig's disease.
Richard: Uh… the guy was Lou Gehrig. Didn't you kinda see it coming?

Friends

Ross *to Monica*: Well, why're you all dressed up?
Phoebe: You're not the only one who has a date tonight.
Ross: What? You have a date? Who with?
Monica: No one.
Ross: C'mon, what's his name?
Monica: Nothing.
Ross: Come on, tell me.
Monica: Alright, but I'm very excited about this OK, so you gotta promise you won't get all big-brothery and judgmental.
Ross: Oh, I promise, what.
Monica: It's Richard Burke.
Ross: Who's Richard Burke? Doc, Doctor Burke? You have a date with Doctor Burke? Why, why, why should that bother me? I, I love that man, he's like a uh, brother to dad.


Friends


*Chandler, Joey and Phoebe return from their outing*
Chandler: ho-ho-ho-holy crap, is it hot in here!
Joey: You mind if I turn the heat down?
Monica *sarcastically*: Hey!, we could have used that kind of thinking earlier!
*moments later*
Joey: Hey Monica, the knob was broken so I turned it off from underneath. I hope that's alright?
*Everyone turns around and looks at Joey with bewilderment*

Friends

Monica: Welcome to the real world! It sucks! You're going to love it.


FriendsMonica: Why would anybody do something like that?!
Ross: I assume we're looking for an answer more sophisticated than, "to get you into bed."
Monica: Is it me? Is it like I have some sort of… beacon th-that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

Monica: There's nothing to tell! It's just some guy I work with.
Joey: Come on! You're going out with the guy. There's gotta be something wrong with him.
Chandler: So, does he have a hump? A hump and a hairpiece?
Phoebe: Wait! Does he eat chalk? Just 'cause I don't want her to go through what I went through with Carl.
Monica: Okay, everybody relax. This is not even a date. It's just two people going out to dinner and… not having sex.
Chandler: Sounds like a date to me.

Friends
Rachel: Are you saying that women can't do it?
Joey: Women can do it; you can't.
Rachel: Monica, will you please tell Joey that he's a pig?
Monica: *to Joey* You're a pig. *to Rachel* You can't do it.
Rachel: Well, I found the hardware store by myself!
Joey: The hardware store's just down the street.
Rachel: *pause* There's a hardware store down the street?

Monica: Ross, why are you all hot and sweaty?
Ross: I just bamboozled Chandler!
*Monica looks confused.*
Ross: Which isn't a sexual thing...

Monica: Also, just so you know, I'm not making a turkey this year.
Joey: What?
Monica: Well, Phoebe doesn't eat turkey...
Joey: Phoebe!
Phoebe: Turkeys are beautiful, intelligent animals.
Joey: No, they're not! They're ugly and stupid and delicious!

Chandler: You opened all the presents without me?! I thought we were supposed to do that together!
Monica: You kissed another woman!
Chandler: *beat* ...Call it even?!
Monica: Okay!

Friends Central Perk

Monica: Do you realize that we're getting married in just four weeks? Four weeks baby, FOUR WEEKS!
Chandler: Do you realize that you get louder every week?

Monica: Chandler and I have this pact not to have sex until the wedding.
Ross: A no-sex pact, huh? I seem to have one of those going with every woman in America.

Monica: Wow! You are really fast!
Chandler: It bodes well for me that speed impresses you.

Chandler: How drunk are you?
Monica: Drunk enough that I know I want to do this. Not so drunk enough that you should feel guilty about taking advantage.
Chandler: That's the perfect amount!

Courteney Cox Quotes
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"You know the thing about them, that's a real family — I don't think they need my advice"
- Courteney Cox on OK!

"I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?”

“I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.”

“I'm a Gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.”

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“I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.”

“A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.”

“I only have to do three things to look halfway decent, curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.”

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“If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.”

“When David [Arquette] and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.”

“I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.”

“Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.”

“I'm a very open person. I know I open my mouth way too much, but I just do that.”

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“I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'”

“I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.”

“I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.”

“It's really confusing, but I loved the fact that it just made me think,”

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"That part wasn't so bad. It could have been worse, ... We could have been having to change outside or something.”

“I know her backwards and forwards. I loved Monica, but you still get tired of it.”

“I like TV,”

"It's important to be able to depend upon people, to never doubt their intentions. Friends need to know they can be themselves without being judged."

"If there's a hair on my food, I'm one of those people who will eat the food anyway."

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"I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough."

"I'm a firm believer that if you feel good, there's nothing you can't do."

"Friends changed my life in so many ways. It gave me opportunity. It gave me freedom. It gave me a family of close Friends with whom I've grown up. It taught me about comedy. It taught me about relationships. It taught me about everything." - People April 19, 2004.

"If you wear lipstick and pluck your eyebrows, you could wear nothing else." - US, September 1994.

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"My father, when you were with him, gave you so much attention. It might only last for a minute, but for that minute you felt like you were the greatest thing that ever hit the earth. But then he was gone. I used to go, 'Dad, watch me jump off the diving board. I can do a flip. Watch!' and I'd start to do it, and by the time you were at the end of the diving board, he'd be looking the other way. And I'd be like, 'Dad, I'm gonna do it again,' 'cause I didn't want the time with my father to be over. I wanted to keep going." - US, July 1996.

"Whoever said aging wasn't for sissies was right," she said. "People who read a magazine can look at the picture and go, 'She looks great for over 40!' But guess what? That's not what I look like. Lighting is everything. When you're in your car and you look in the mirror and the sun's beaming in, you're like, 'Wow, times are getting tough.'" - Life magazine, August 2006

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"I like keeping Gale bitchy. She has a reputation to live up to. She may have changed her hair but not much else." about her character Gale Weathers in the Scream series

"I get so bored! I had a treadmill... I gave it to my mom. I had a stairmaster... gone. I had a recumbent bike...I dont know where that is. So I hate exercise except for Pilates."

“She's an all-round friend and she's incredibly loyal.”

“I like TV. It all depends what it is.”

“We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships,”

“If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second, Cox continued. ”

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“In this movie, I feel like I didn't notice Monica in it at all, ... Your instincts would probably be to think about Monica, but I have to make sure you don't.”

“I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a lot about the details of her inner life and the way she coped, a lot more than how I was going to look. Since the story is open to interpretation, I thought it was really important that the character be emotionally accessible, that the audience would be able to identify with her struggle.”

“We were hoping that the audience was going to be happy about it and not like, 'What they are doing?' ... So when we got a good response, we were really excited. This is my favorite year so far.”

“I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'”

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"I have to be physically attracted to someone. But I can't just be with someone just because it's great sex. Because orgasms don't last long enough."

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in."

"Before he moved in, David would say 'How are we ever going to meld together, because our tastes are so different? Maybe it's because we're truly in love that we can". - on husband David Arquette

"I want people to be happy, so I think that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do the show in the first place...just to see somebody, even if it's just for the day. To see their life change for that moment when they walk into the room and are that happy. It really makes you cry. It does. I hope I don't lose this feeling." - on producing her show "Mix it Up".

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On Monica: "Monica's a really clean person, and I'm not saying I'm not clean because that's kinda gross, to say I'm not clean, because I am. But she's obsessed with being clean and like, so she takes me, and then you times me by 1,000, and that's what she would be like."
She once said "I am Monica"

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About playing Monica and Chandler: "It's so much fun for us. I have a new love for the show since I've gotten into this relationship. Honestly, I was a little bored the first four years. I had some fun things to do and some good relationships, but Monica was developing and I felt like there was a lot of straight man stuff. Now we have something really fun to play -two really neurotic people trying to have a relationship. They're both afraid to commit, to get married, or take these steps. I have a really good time playing with him (Matthew Perry). It's kind of like our relationship in real life - except we don't kiss."


Quotes About Courteney Cox
Quote:

"It was a lot of fun.
I danced all night with Courteney Cox.
I can't remember the last time I did that.
So that was a sign of a good party!"


Who said/wrote it:
Sheryl Crow - Female First

Quote:
"Courteney Cox …
she’s going to be invited to the party"


Who said/wrote it:
Ellen DeGeneres

Quote:
"If Courteney Cox comes running out,
yeah, then I'd be mad I missed it!"


Who said/wrote it:
Troy Polamalu, Steelers

Quote:
"I like the Boss. It would be sweet
if he had Courteney Cox come on stage too
and dance with him."

Who said/wrote it:
- Kendall Simmons, Steelers