Meg Ryan movie monologue?

March 1, 2013 10:38 AM

As told to me by a friend... There's a Meg Ryan monologue from a film (of course she didn't remember the title) that I need to find.

She talks about not wanting a family, having sex in every room of the house, then realizing by the end that what she really wants is a family. Ring any bells?

posted by lizifer to media & arts (4 answers total)

When Harry Met Sally
posted by SugarAndSass at 10:39 AM on March 1

I suspect it's this quote from When Harry Met Sally.
posted by hanov3r at 10:42 AM on March 1

From IMDB:

Sally: When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to live together, but we didn't want to get married because every time anyone we knew got married, it ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It's true, it's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids - and, actually, my one girlfriend who has kids, Alice - and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn't even complain about it, now that I think about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time, the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. And Joe and I used to talk about it, and we'd say we were so lucky we have this wonderful relationship, we can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in. We can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice. And then one day I was taking Alice's little girl for the afternoon because I'd promised to take her to the circus, and we were in the cab playing "I Spy" - I spy a mailbox, I spy a lamp-post - and she looked out the window and she saw this man and this woman with these two little kids. And the man had one of the little kids on his shoulders, and she said, "I spy a family." And I started to cry. You know, I just started crying. And I went home, and I said, "The thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moment's notice."

Harry: And the kitchen floor?

Sally: [sadly] Not once. It's this very cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile.
posted by SugarAndSass at 10:42 AM on March 1 [16 favorites]

you guys are the best.
posted by lizifer at 11:39 AM on March 1