Elizabeth Perkins credited as playing...
Susan
- Susan: It happened again. David, the girl is absolutely useless. You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster.
- Personnel Director: You know, she came so highly recommended.
- Susan: She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen.
- Susan: [finding Josh by the Zoltar machine] Josh?
- Josh: Susan.
- Susan: You know, you don't walk out on somebody. You don't just get up and leave and... and... and walk out like that. You don't do that.
- Josh: I know. I know. I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry, but I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say.
- Susan: [a card pops out of the machine, Susans reads it, and she is upset to be convinced] Oh, God. You got your wish.
- Josh: I tried to tell you.
- Susan: I didn't listen. I guess I didn't hear you, or... or want to, or...
- Josh: I tried to tell you last night.
- Susan: How would I have... Even if I did listen, how would I know?
- Josh: I've been thinking about this.
- Susan: Why would I know that?
- Josh: I've been trying... I've been thinking about it, and there's a million reasons for me to go home... but there's only one reason for me to stay.
- Susan: What... What reason is that?
- Josh: Well, you.
- Josh: [trying in vain to reveal his true age] I miss my family, Susan, and I want to go home.
- Susan: Oh, my God. You're married.
- Josh: No.
- Susan: I knew this was too good to be true. I knew there had to be something.
- Josh: Susan, I'm not married.
- Susan: You're not?
- Josh: No. I'm a child.
- Susan: What?
- Susan: I'm a child, Susan... and I'm... I'm not ready for all of this.
- Susan: Oh, that's fine. That is... That's just great.
- Josh: You see, what happened...
- Susan: [misinterpreting this as a fear of commitment on his part] No, I understand. I'm not ready to make a commitment. I'm not ready to accept the responsibility.
- Josh: No, you don't understand. I'm 13 years old.
- Susan: Oh, and who isn't? You think that there isn't a frightened kid inside of me too?
- Josh: No, I mean I really am 13. I went to bed one night and I was a kid, woke up the next morning, I was a grown-up.
- Susan: Oh, right. And just yesterday I was a schoolgirl with pigtails. Why are you doing this, Josh?
- Josh: There was this carnival in New Jersey.
- Susan: Please.
- Josh: I made a wish on a machine called the Zoltar machine.
- Susan: Oh, stop it.
- Josh: It was called a Zoltar machine. It had this bobbing head, and it looked just like a devil. If you got a quarter in the devil's mouth, you could make a wish, and I did. So I made a wish to be big. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I changed into a grown-up, when I'm really just a kid.
- Josh, Susan: [still not believing him] Fine, Josh, you're a kid. Look, I really don't know what it is that you're trying to tell me... but we have a very big presentation to give tomorrow... so I'm gonna get some sleep.