Home Alone (1990)
Catherine O'Hara: Kate
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Quotes
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Kevin McCallister : [apprehensively] I made my family disappear.
[thinks back to family members saying bad things about him]
Megan McCallister : Kevin, you're completely helpless!
Linnie McCallister : You know, Kevin, you're what the French call "les incompetents".
Buzz McCallister : Kevin, I'm going to feed you to my tarantula.
Jeff McCallister : Kevin, you are *such* a *disease*!
Kate McCallister : There are fifteen people in this house and you're the only one who has to make trouble.
Frank McCallister : Look what you *did*, you little *jerk*.
Kevin McCallister : [gleefully] I made my family disappear.
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Kate McCallister : Did I turn off the coffee?
Peter McCallister : No... I did.
Kate McCallister : Did you lock up?
Peter McCallister : Yeah.
Kate McCallister : Did we set the timers on the lights?
Peter McCallister : Yeah.
Kate McCallister : Did you close the garage?
Peter McCallister : That's it. I forgot to close the garage, that's it.
[She sits back; after a pause]
Kate McCallister : No, that's not it.
Peter McCallister : Well, what else could we be forgetting?
[She sits back again; after an even longer pause, she jumps upright]
Kate McCallister : KEVIN!
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Kate McCallister : Heather, did you count heads?
Heather McCallister : Eleven, including me. Five boys, six girls, four parents, two drivers, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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Kate McCallister : Kevin, get upstairs right now.
Kevin McCallister : Why?
Jeff McCallister : Kevin, you're such a disease.
Kevin McCallister : Shut up.
Peter McCallister : Kevin, upstairs.
Kate McCallister : Say good night, Kevin.
Kevin McCallister : "Good night, Kevin."
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Kevin McCallister : Everyone in this family *hates* me!
Kate McCallister : Then maybe you should ask Santa for a new family.
Kevin McCallister : I don't want another family. I don't want any family. Families suck!
Kate McCallister : Just stay up there. I don't want to see you again for the rest of the night.
Kevin McCallister : *I* don't want to see you again for the rest of my whole life. And I don't want to see anybody else either.
Kate McCallister : [softly] I hope you don't mean that. You'd feel pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you didn't have a family.
Kevin McCallister : No, I wouldn't.
Kate McCallister : Then say it again. Maybe it will happen.
Kevin McCallister : I hope that I never see any of you jerks again!
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[Kevin has just caused a scene in the kitchen and Buzz has him in a headlock]
Kate McCallister : Look, stop, stop! What is the matter with you?
Kevin McCallister : He started it! He ate my pizza on purpose! He knows I hate sausage and olives and onions and...
Frank McCallister : [wiping dregs of soda off of his pants] Look what you did, you little jerk!
[the rest of the family stare irately at Kevin]
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Kate McCallister : [to the Scranton ticket agent] This is *Christmas*! The season of perpetual hope! And I don't care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike! If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.
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Gus Polinski : Allow me to introduce myself. Gus Polinksi. How are you?
[seeing Kate's blank look]
Gus Polinski : Polka king of the Midwest?
[another blank look]
Gus Polinski : The Kenosha Kickers?
[his bandmates all wave]
Gus Polinski : No? That's okay. I thought you might've recognized... Anyways, uh, I had a few hits a few years ago. Uh, that's why, you know... "Polka, Polka, Polka"?
[singing]
Gus Polinski : Polka, polka, polka. No? Uh, "Twin Lakes Polka". "Yamahoozie Polka", AKA "Kiss Me Polka". "Polka Twist".
Kate McCallister : These are songs?
Gus Polinski : Yeah. Yeah. We... some fairly big hits for us. You know, in the early '70s, you know?
Kate McCallister : Oh.
Gus Polinski : Yeah, we sold about 623 copies of that.
Kate McCallister : In Chicago?
Gus Polinski : No. Sheboygan. Very big in Sheboygan. They loved it, you know?
Kate McCallister : I'm sorry. Did you say you could help me?
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Kate McCallister : How could we do this? We forgot him.
Peter McCallister : We didn't forget him, we just miscounted.
Kate McCallister : What kind of a mother am I?
Frank McCallister : If it makes you feel any better, I forgot my reading glasses.
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Kate McCallister : PETER!
[they jump out of bed]
Kate McCallister , Peter McCallister : [shouting] We slept in!
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Kate McCallister : Have you ever gone on vacation and left your child home?
Gus Polinski : No, no. But I did leave one at a funeral parlor once.
[Off Kate's look]
Gus Polinski : Yeah, it was awful. The wife was distraught and we left the little tyke there in the funeral parlor all day. All day. You know, we went back at night and apparently he had been alone all day with the corpse. He was okay though, after two, three weeks he came around and started talking again...
Kate McCallister : Maybe we shouldn't talk about this.
Gus Polinski : Well, you brought it up.
Kate McCallister : I'm sorry I did.
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Kate McCallister : Where are the passports and tickets?
Peter McCallister : I put them in the microwave to dry em' off.
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Kate McCallister : I'm a bad parent. I'm a bad parent.
Gus Polinski : No, you're not. You're beating yourself up over there, you know. This happens. These things happen, you know. Gee... You wanna talk about bad parents, look at us. We're on the road 48, 49 weeks out of the year, we hardly see our families. Joe over there... gosh, you know, he forgets his kids' names half the time. Ziggy over there, he's never even met his kid. And Eddie... let's just hope none of them write a book about him.
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Kate McCallister : [about Kevin] He was in the garage again playing with the glue gun.
Peter McCallister : Didn't we talk about that?
Kevin McCallister : Did I burn down the joint? I don't think so. I was making ornaments out of fish hooks.
Peter McCallister : My NEW fish hooks?
Kevin McCallister : I can't make ornaments out of the old ones, with dry worm guts stuck on them.
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Kate McCallister : [while on the phone, Kevin jumps onto the bed] No, we're not bringing the dog. We took him to the kennel... Hey, hey! Get off. Kevin, out of the room!
Kevin McCallister : Hang up the phone and make me, why don't you?
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Kate McCallister : There are 15 people in this house, you're the only one who has to make trouble.
Kevin McCallister : I'm the only one getting dumped on.
Kate McCallister : You're the only one acting up. Now get upstairs.
Kevin McCallister : I *am* upstairs, dummy.
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Kevin McCallister : Mom, Uncle Frank won't let me watch the movie, but the big kids can. Why can't I?
Kate McCallister : Kevin, I'm on the phone.
Kevin McCallister : It's not even rated R. He's just being a jerk.
Kate McCallister : Kevin, if Uncle Frank says no, then it must be really bad.
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Peter McCallister : Hey did you by any chance pick up a voltage adapter thing?
Kate McCallister : No, I didn't have time to do that.
Peter McCallister : Well how am I supposed to shave in France?
Kate McCallister : Grow a goatee.
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[Kate is trying to get a ticket to go to Dallas, Ed is trying to board the plane]
Man in Airport : Come on, Irene, they're boarding.
Woman in Airport : This girl is offering us our first class ticket... if we go Friday plus a ring, a watch, a pocket translater, five hundered dollars and...
Kate McCallister : The earrings, you love the earrings?
Man in Airport : She's got her own earrings, a whole show box full of them dangly ones.
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Kate McCallister : Merry Christmas, sweetheart.
[he's warily suspicious of her]
Kate McCallister : Oh, Kevin, I'm so sorry.
Kevin McCallister : [hugging her] Where's everybody else?
Kate McCallister : Oh, baby, they couldn't come. They wanted to so much, but...
[to their surprise, the front door opens and the other kids come in, arguing]
Peter McCallister : Come on, you guys, it's Christmas.
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Peter McCallister : [all the flights back to Chicago are booked for the holiday] I say we go over to Rob's, and that way we can call the police again and they can get back to us.
Kate McCallister : Peter, Kevin is home all by himself. I'm not leaving here unless it's on an airplane.
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Kevin McCallister : The third floor?
Kate McCallister : Go.
Kevin McCallister : It's scary up there.
Kate McCallister : Don't be silly; Fuller will be up in a little while.
Kevin McCallister : I don't wanna sleep with Fuller. You know about him, he wets the bed. He'll pee all over me, I know it.
Kate McCallister : [looking disgusted] Fine, we'll put him somewhere else.
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Kate McCallister : I have been awake for almost 60 hours. I'm tired and I'm dirty. I have been from Chicago to Paris to Dallas to... where the hell am I?
Scranton Ticket Agent : Scranton.
Kate McCallister : [finally letting her aggravation out] I am trying to get home to my eight-year-old son. And now that I'm this close, you're telling me it's hopeless?
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Peter McCallister : Honey, the pizza boy need $122 dollars plus tip.
Kate McCallister : For pizza?
Peter McCallister : Ten pizzas times twelve bucks!
Leslie McCallister : Frank, you've got money don't you?
Frank McCallister : Traveler's checks.
Kate McCallister : Forget it, Frank. We have cash.
Peter McCallister : You probably have the kind of traveler's checks that don't work in France.
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Kate McCallister : How did you guys get home?
Peter McCallister : Oh, we took the morning flight. Remember? The one you didn't want to wait for.
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Gus Polinski : Our flight was canceled, so we gotta drive. So, uh, you see the guy in the yellow jacket over there by the Budget sign? He's gonna rent us a nice big, uh, van, and we're gonna drive to Milwaukee. Now, I heard you had some problems here, uh, gettin' to Chicago to see your kid or something?
Kate McCallister : Uh, my son. He... we left him... he's there.
Gus Polinski : Aw, jeez. If you have to get to Chicago, we'll gladly drive you. It's on the way to Milwaukee.
Kate McCallister : You'd give me a ride?
Gus Polinski : Sure, we will. Why not, you know? You gotta get home and see your kid.
Kate McCallister : A ride to Chicago?
Gus Polinski : Sure. You know, it's Christmastime.
Kate McCallister : Thank you. Oh, thank you.
Gus Polinski : If-if you don't mind goin' with some polka bums.
Kate McCallister : No, I'd love to.
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Kate McCallister : No, he's just home alone.
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Lineman : Excuse me, ma'am, I wanted to let you know that your power is fixed, but the phone lines are a mess. It's gonna take Ma Bell a couple of days to patch them up. Especially around the holidays.
Kate McCallister : [Without really listening] Okay, thanks.
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Kate McCallister : I hope you're all drinking milk, I want to get rid of it!
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Fuller McCallister : What time are we going to bed?
Frank McCallister : Early, we're leaving the house at 8 AM, on the button.
Kate McCallister : Hey, I hope you're all drinking milk, I want to get rid of it.
Kate McCallister : [to Megan who is throwing food] Hey, don't you do that!
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Kate McCallister : [Walking up the stairs to the 2nd floor] There are 15 people in this house and you're the only one, who has to make trouble.
Kevin McCallister : I'm the only one getting dumped on.
Kate McCallister : You're the only one acting up. Now, get upstairs.
Kevin McCallister : I am upstairs, dummy.
[She opens the door to the 3rd floor attic]
Kevin McCallister : The third floor?
Kate McCallister : Go.
Kevin McCallister : It's scary up there.
Kate McCallister : Don't be silly. Fuller'll be up in a little while.
Kevin McCallister : I don't wanna sleep with Fuller. You know about him, he wets the bed. He'll pee all over me, I know it.
Kate McCallister : [Looks disgusted] Fine. We'll put him somewhere else.
Kevin McCallister : I'm sorry.
Kate McCallister : It's too late. Get upstairs.
Kevin McCallister : [He walks half-way up, stops, and turns to face her] Everyone in this family hates me.
Kate McCallister : Then, maybe you should ask Santa for a new family.
Kevin McCallister : I don't want a new family, I don't want any family. Families suck.
Kate McCallister : Just stay up there. I don't want to see you again for the rest of the night.
Kevin McCallister : I don't want to see you again for the rest of my whole life and I don't want to see anybody else, either.
Kate McCallister : [Softly, in shock] I hope you don't mean that. You'd feel pretty sad if you woke up tomorrow morning and you didn't have a family.
Kevin McCallister : No, I wouldn't.
Kate McCallister : Then, say it again. Maybe it'll happen.
Kevin McCallister : I hope that I never see any of you jerks again.
[Turns around, walks the rest of the way up, as Kate closes the door behind him]
Kevin McCallister : [Thinking to himself as he lays down on the pull-out sofa] I wish they would all just disappear.
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Officer Balzak : Family Crisis Intervention, Sergeant Balzak.
Kate McCallister : I'm calling from Paris, I have a son who is home alone.
Officer Balzak : Has the child been involved in violence with a drunk family member?
Kate McCallister : No!
Officer Balzak : Has he been involved in a household accident?
Kate McCallister : I don't know. I hope not.
Officer Balzak : Has the child ingested any poison and or any other object lodged in his throat?
Kate McCallister : No, he's just home alone! I'd like somebody to go over to the house and see if he's all right.
Officer Balzak : You want us to go to your house just to check on him?
Kate McCallister : Yes!
Officer Balzak : Let me connect you to the police.
Kate McCallister : No, they just transferred me to you.