I Am Sam (2001)

Dakota Fanning: Lucy

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Quotes 

• Lucy : I won't read the word!

  Sam : I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father.

  Lucy : I'm stupid.

  Sam : You are not stupid!

  Lucy : Yes, I am.

  Sam : No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word.

  Lucy : I don't wanna read it if you can't.

  Sam : No, because it makes me happy! It makes me happy hearing you read. Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading.

  Lucy : [Lucy reads again] 

• Lucy : Daddy, did God made for you to be like this or was it an accident?

  Sam : Ok, what do you mean?

  Lucy : I mean you're different.

  Sam : But what do you mean?

  Lucy : You're not like other daddies.

  Sam : I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry.

  Lucy : It's ok, daddy. It's ok. Don't be sorry. I'm lucky. Nobody else's daddy ever comes to the park.

  Sam : Yeah! Yeah! Yeah, we are lucky. Aren't we lucky? Yeah!

• Lucy : All you need is love.

• Lucy : Why are men bald?

  Sam : Sometimes they're bald because their head is shiny and they don't have hair on it. So their head is just more of their face.

• Sam : You've grown.

  Lucy : Have I?

  Sam : Yeah, 'cause your ears are bigger and your eyes are older.

• Lucy : [being observed]  I want no other daddy but you.

  [turns to the glass] 

  Lucy : [shouts]  Did you hear that? I said I didn't want any other daddy but him. Why don't you write that down?

• Conner Rhodes : Why does your father act like a retard?

  Lucy : He is.

• Conner Rhodes : Are you a retard too?

  Lucy : No!

  Conner Rhodes : How do you know?

  Lucy : Because he told me.

  Conner Rhodes : But he's a retard!

  Lucy : It takes one to know one.