Matt quotes from 7th Heaven

Matt

(to John) Parents! Can't live with 'em, can't live with out 'em.

Matt

[to Eric and Annie] The good news is I'm valedictorian. The bad news is I leave before I have a chance to make my speech. I got a job in Washington, D.C. Summer work program.

Matt

[to Mary & Wilson on her bed] Have you two lost your minds!? Haven't you learned anything from your mistake? [to Mary] You're acting more like he's your husband!

Matt

I'm moving in an apartment with John Hamilton. You know I love you, but I can't stay forever.

Matt

[to Mary] Look, I'm sorry I haven't been around much. You're important to me. What happens to you is important to me. What happens to you is important to everyone in the family, but I've been watching you, and I haven't really been interested in being a part of anything that's going on in your life, so I've basically avoided you, but maybe I should have cornered you and given you my take on what you're doing a lot sooner. I've seen so many young women who are losers, mostly in the emergency room or entering drug rehab at the hospital. I don't want you to be a loser. It's too easy to be the bad girl. You're better than that. I know I'm not perfect. I know I don't have all the answers, but I can tell you this. The most powerful thing I ever did for myself was make up my mind to become a responsible person, and I still haven't worked up to being responsible 24 hours a day, but I'm getting better at it. And I'm hoping that sharing this with you will help you make up your mind to become a responsible person! If you can't do it for yourself, then maybe you could consider the rest of us, and how much we need you to be responsible. Whatever you do affects us all. I know you know that, and yet you act like you don't care. All of us have to strive to be the best we can be, not because anything else is unacceptable, but because anything else is just plain misery. I can see you're miserable. You are. This is not the best you can do. You can do better, and I will do anything I can to help you do better. You just have to make up your mind that that's what you want to do, and I'm there for you. We all are.

Matt

(to Simon and Ruthie) Why is such a terrible question, really. I mean everytime you ask why , a because follows and everytime you say because, another why is asked.

Matt

[to Simon] Uh, let me think about that, no! Last thing we need is another one of your goofy friends.

Matt

Our fathers are never going to admit they are wrong, apologize and show up and the synagogue as nothing ever happened.

Mary

(referring to kissing) The point is, I don't know where my hands go or his hands or my face or his face or his lips or my lips, and I don't want it to be awkward, couldn't you just show me so I have some experience.

Matt

Don't kiss me.

Mary

Would you stop, I'm not gonna kiss you. Ok, so do I touch his face with my hands. (Mary moves her hand toward his face)

Matt

No, look if anybody touches face, he touches your face or maybe he doesn't, I don't know.

Mary

(starts moving toward a kiss) So I close my eyes and... (Eric sees Mary trying to kiss Matt)

Matt

Oh Dad, this isn't what it looks like.

Eric

That's a relief.

Eric

So many questions I don't know where to start. Why don't we try where were you?

Matt

I was at a friend's.

Eric

What friend?

Matt

Just a friend, you don't know her.

Eric

Oh it's a her? That's interesting. Have you completely lost your mind? You stupid idiot

Simon

Well, Matt I've been thinking...

Matt

Well, don't do that you might hurt yourself.

Matt

I'm sorry, Dad. I'm a total screw-up.

Eric

(before lovingly embracing his son) Not total.

Matt

I'm a total idiot.

Hey, that's my grandson you're talking about! And he's not an idiot. He's just a 16-year-old kid trying to make his way in the world.

Matt

How long will that take?

Well, if he's anything like his grandmother it may take fifty or sixty years.

Matt

(to cop) No Officer I wasn't drinking.

Well, that's an interesting cologne you're wearing. Step outside.

Annie

Did Renee have her baby?

Matt

Yeah, she had a little girl.

Simon

Cool.

Matt

Oh, and get this, Mom. You'll love this. She named the baby after Grandma.

Simon

She named the baby Grandma?

Matt

Her name was Jenny, Simon.

Simon

Oh. I had no idea.