Jeremy

Cello teacher:
You don't have to be great. Not everybody can be great.

Jeremy's father:
What do you think would happen if everyone in this world tried to do two things at the same time?

Jeremy Jones:
I know who I'd like to be. I'd like to be a great musician. Music is the only time I feel like I'm me, you know, not like my parents little boy or some kid going to school. I mean, I feel like a whole person. You understand?

Ralph Manzoni:
I've heard her say hello before. Plenty of times. Never hit me as anything special.

Jeremy Jones:
You know, it's funny. My dad used to be the same as me when he was a kid. He loved horses. He did the same job I used to do.

Susan Rollins:
Yeah?

Jeremy Jones:
Yeah. But now... Now he doesn't have time for that kind of stuff. He's too busy.

Jeremy Jones:
[having just made love for the first time] What are you thinking about?

Susan Rollins:
Nothing really.

Jeremy Jones:
Is anything wrong?

Susan Rollins:
No. I'm just wispy.

Jeremy Jones:
Wispy? What's that?

Susan Rollins:
I don't know. It's a happy kind of... quiet... something like that.

Jeremy Jones:
Are ya happy?

Susan Rollins:
Yes. Are you?

Jeremy Jones:
Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of - wispy.

Susan Rollins:
Don't make fun.

Jeremy's father:
Jeremy, I got where I am in my job by working hard and by concentrating, and you have to do the same. You have to concentrate, too.

Jeremy Jones:
But, Dad, I get straight A's, except for one B.

Jeremy's father:
[sighs] That's beside the point.

Grace Jones - Jeremy's mother:
On the other hand, Marty says this room cries for avocado.

Susan Rollins:
It's hard making friends.

Susan's father:
It's something you just have to work at, like everything else in life, you know?