Emily Lightman quotes from Lie to Me

Emily Lightman

(referring to Zoe's engagement) She still thinks she's in love with you.

Cal Lightman

(softly) What?

Emily Lightman

I mean, I see what's going on with you two. I always do. I always have.

Cal Lightman

Who's that?

Emily Lightman

Mom, I'm home, six whole minutes before curfew! Aren't you proud of me?

Zoe Landau

That would be our daughter.

Cal Lightman

'Ooops.

Emily Lightman

You know, my mom's been spending all this time with Dad. I mean, they think I don't know. It's like they don't even remember how bad it was.

Gillian Foster

They'll have to figure it out for themselves. Maybe it will be different.

Emily Lightman

You don't believe that. [pauses] He's so much happier when he's with you.

Emily

That's such a violation.

Cal

Yeah? Well, your mom's a lawyer. Sue me.

Emily

You really need to learn how to relax, dad. People who can't relax, die younger. I learned that in health class.

Cal

Don't worry about me, love, will you?

Emily

What are you looking at anyway?

Cal

Nothing. (He tries to hide the view to his laptop)

Emily

You're spying on the office?

Emily

So you're saying that you can just treat me like a child whenever you want to.

Cal

No, I'm not. I'm saying that on occasion, it's my right as a parent to be suspicious and overprotective.

Emily

Ok. Then on occasion, I reserve the right to throw tantrums and spend all your money.

Cal

Deal.

Cal

How do you learn to live longer?

Emily

Well, there's meditation and yoga, but for you I'd definitely say you need both.

Cal

Yoga's that thing you do in a lounge chair with a mai-tai in your hand, right?

Emily

Maybe kissing him was a little extreme.

Cal

Oh, you reckon, do you?

Emily

Yeah, but that makes me the apple that didn't fall far from the tree.

Cal

Oh, so, it's my fault then, is it?

Emily

Yeah. It's good you admit this.

Loker

(about her cyberfriends) All right, these guys. Bad idea. Keep your distance.

Emily

Eli, I barely know them.

Loker

Good. Then your distance will be kept because from what I'm reading, these guys are bringing an entire pharmacy to the concert.

Cal

I know you were just trying to look out for her, right? And I shouldn't have hit you. I was wrong. Physical violence... right... it's very, very wrong.

Loker

Apology accepted.

Emily

Dad, come on. Don't blow the apology.

Cal

(to Loker) I'm sorry.

Loker

Probably should have seen it coming.

Cal

What, the kiss?

Loker

No, the punch. You're emotional wildfire where Emily's concerned.

Emily

You know, you could have died yesterday.

Possibly.

Emily

So, you admit you're an idiot.

No, because if I was an idiot, right, I would get into far more mundane trouble for, you know, forgetting your lunch date with your daughter.

Emily

It's a good thing you never do that.

Absolutely not, I'm a grown up. [watches as Emily takes a small book from her handbag] Don't tell me you read your Granny's diary. You read your Granny's diary.

Emily

And look at this! I am 99.99% yours. You might want to take this test again. There's still a .01% chance that people in the lab were lying.

So I might get lucky, you mean?

Emily

You never really trust anyone, do you? You know that's why you'll always be alone.

I'm not alone. [Emily smiles as she watches Lightman to sit with Foster]

You like this Rudi fella?

Emily

Yeah. He’s nice.

Ah. Well, then, I’m fine.

Emily

He’s no Cal Lightman, though.

Oh, mum must be devastated.

Emily

Yeah, because she told me what she’s really looking for is another workaholic who’d always know what she was gonna say and would contradict her before she even got the chance to say it, eats beans on toast twice a week, whose wardrobe consists of 15 pairs of the same jeans, jackets, and shirts, and who likes to make fun of any and all authority, even if it’s his ex-wife who lives 1,200 miles away.

Yeah, there’s not many of us about.

Emily

I know. It’s a shame.