Somewhere in Time Quotes

[seeing Richard for the first time]

Elise McKenna: Is it you? Is it?

Richard Collier: This is not for a play, Miss Roberts. This is something very personal.

[shows her the pocketwatch]

Laura Roberts: Where did you get that?

Richard Collier: Well, she gave it to me, ma'am. At the opening of a play I wrote eight years ago at Millfield College.

Laura Roberts: That watch was very precious to her. She never- never left it out of her possession. It disappeared the night she died.

Richard Collier: She died that night?

[repeated line]

Richard Collier: See you around, Arthur.

[first lines]

[various snippets in crowd chatter]

Richard Collier: I got some news. There was an agent in the house tonight, and he said he thinks this play might be good enough for Broadway.

[cheers from crowd]

Richard Collier: Fingers crossed, who knows? Come on, let's all have some cake.

[last lines]

Arthur Biehl: [on telephone] Operator? Get Dr. Paul up to suite 313 right away.

Doctor: Looks like he hasn't eaten in a week. You better send for an ambulance.

Hotel Manager: I'll call one right now.

Arthur Biehl: What a shame. If I'd only known.

Hotel Manager: [on telephone] Operator? Get an ambulance. Right away.

Arthur Biehl: He is going to make it, isn't he?

Doctor: I don't know.

Hotel Manager: They're on their way. How is he?

Doctor: We're going to need some oxygen.

Arthur Biehl: Oh...

Hotel Manager: We've got some downstairs. I'll get it right now.

Arthur Biehl: Keep him warm with this blanket. Such a fine man. What a shame. I wonder what happened.

Doctor: We've gotta keep him going until they get here.

Arthur Biehl: [on telephone, distant] Gladys, this is Arthur again, in Mr. Collier's suite. We've got to

[fades out]

Richard Collier: Arthur, you know in the Hall of History, there's a photograph, a young woman. There's no nameplate.

Arthur Biehl: Yes, that's Elise McKenna. She was a famous actress in her day. Starred in a play in the hotel theater.

Richard Collier: I-I'm sorry. Did you say there was a theater here?

Arthur Biehl: Yes. Down by the lake.

Richard Collier: Really? When was this play done?

Arthur Biehl: 1912.

Elise McKenna: You will marry me won't you?

Richard Collier: [Richard coughs and splutters] Sorry

Elise McKenna: You won't?

[she asks rather worriedly]

Richard Collier: Sure, I Was just laughing at the way you asked that's all

Elise McKenna: For one moment there, I thought you had a wife and children back home somewhere

[she chuckles]

Richard Collier: Oh Elise

Dr. Gerald Finney: What can I do for you?

Richard Collier: I have a question for you, sir?

Dr. Gerald Finney: Shoot.

Richard Collier: Is time travel possible?

Dr. Gerald Finney: [pause] That is a question.