Kitty Walker quotes from Brothers & Sisters

Kitty

No, mom. This is not just about my politics. Tommy and dad think the same things I do, and you've managed to reconcile forty years of loving somebody who fundamentally disagrees with you. But you can't love me. And I don't know what it's about. It's not about the war.

Kitty

Mistakes were made. President Ronald Reagan said those words twenty years ago in a time when admitting a mistake was perceived as a sign of strength, not weakness. I made a mistake. I made a mistake in compromising the interview that you're about to see, and I made a mistake in continuing to defend a war that is in desperate need of reexamination. Reexamination which cannot come until we acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake.

Kitty

[on the phone I am not the person you think I am. That's what you people don't seem to understand. I am not a bitch. I am not aggressively plotting to make our mother feel bad.

Sarah

Then why are you staying in a motel?

Kitty

Because Sarah, the show is putting this up and it's supposed to be a gorgeous room.

Sarah

Then call mom and tell her.

Kitty

You know what Sarah, you call mom and you tell her that.

Sarah

I talk to mom everyday, you guys haven't spoken for two years.

[to Kitty] We're here all together, and I must announce with some trepidation, you're no longer grounded.

Justin

When she was fourteen, she was grounded indefinitely.

What for?

Kitty

Oh, it had something to do with cigarettes and surf wax.

Tommy

And shoplifting and a boy named Pablo...

Sarah

You know, I thought when I quit my old job that I would gain in time what I lost in salary. But being a working mom is like a currency that never has enough value.

Kitty

Oh my God, I'm going to steal that line.

Kitty

You were the one who virtually refused to be in my life for three years, who barely spoke, and I know it's because I unforgivably gave my opinion about Justin.

Nora

Not refused, couldn't. I was afraid of the things I didn't want to say.

Justin

It's too much? You want to know what's too much? She's HERE. Mom invited her here.

Kitty

What do you mean "she's here"?

Justin

I mean she's out there drinking mojitoes and...and wearing big jewelry!

Warren Salter

You don't know me, Kitty, but you're the first woman I've met in years who sends me spinning. I see you and I drop ten stories inside, every time.

Kitty

Ah, Warren, you know what? We're not in the last ten minutes of a Julia Roberts movie.

Kitty Walker

If you guys ever need a babysitter...

Sarah

Do you know a good one?

Kitty

Me. Seriously! If you ever need a night out...

Sarah

No. Our kids are Democrats.

Kitty

[about golf] Kevin plays.

Kevin

What? No, Kevin doesn't.

Sarah

Yeah, Kevin does play. He played on our high school golf team.

Kevin

Yeah, only because I had a crush on Matthew Brown. I joined everything he joined, even Future Farmers of America... Yeah, he grew a prize-winning pumpkin.

Kitty

Ooh, I bet he did.

Kitty

Woo, what are you all dressed up for?

Nora

I'm not dressed up.

Kitty

You're wearing a push-up bra.

Nora

This is not a... it's a French cup... I got it on sale... You know, it wouldn't hurt you to wear a bra every now and then!

I'm just completely in awe of you. You're really amazing. You're like totally my role model.

Kitty

[smiling] Oh, thanks.

Except for, you know, your politics.

Sometimes I have to remember that not all businesses want to be saved. And the hardest thing is knowing when to give up. That's what you want, isn't it? [Kitty nods] Now I know.

Kitty

I don't want to be with you, Jonathan, just because I don't want to be alone. We go out for dinner and we talk about politics and we talk about business ... and it works. But it's like the difference between looking good and feeling good.

Kitty

I'm sorry, but when I packed I didn't realize I was going to be walking into Caligula's bathhouse.

Nora

[holding up a bra] Well, what did you pack for?

Kitty

I packed for work. Warren and I are... you know, we're preparing for a very big interview.

Nora

Is that the euphemism of choice these days?

Kitty

You know, mother, you're just trying to defer the attention because Dave came up here to remodel you.

Kevin

You're the lying whore of the family!

Kitty

And you're the stuck-up bitch!