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05:26 am - QotD
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[Long lead in provided for context; the
part I wanted to point out
is highlighted.] Scene: Alexis Castle is shopping for a dress, with her father and her grandmother ...] | ||
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Alexis Castle: [played by Molly C. Quinn] |
[enters, wearing prom dress] What do you think? | |
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Rick Castle: (Alexis' father) [played by Nathan Fillion] |
You look beautiful. | |
| Alexis Castle: | Dad, you say that about every dress. Don't you think this makes my skin look pasty? | |
| Rick Castle: | Sweetheart, I want you to know that no matter how you think you look, you are perfect -- exactly the way you are. | |
| Alexis Castle: | You're not helping. | |
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Martha Rodgers: (Alexis' grandmother) [played by Susan Sullivan] |
[enters carying another dress] Oh! God, no. Hideous. | |
| Alexis Castle: | [whispers] Thank you. | |
| Martha Rodgers: | Here, try this -- good colour for you. [Alexis exits carrying second dress] | |
| Rick Castle: | What are you doing? | |
| Martha Rodgers: | What? | |
| Rick Castle: | "You look hideous"? Are you trying to give her body-image issues? | |
| Martha Rodgers: | News flash: she already has body-image issues. It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates -- her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her ... [turns to look in a mirror] ... oh God, her butt's too flat, her nose is too big ... And you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup, just, it hides the flaws ... we think we have. They make us look beautiful. To ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful, to others. | |
| Rick Castle: | Used to be, all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara. | |
| Martha Rodgers: | We spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again. | |
| Alexis Castle: | [enters wearing second dress; Rick and Martha stand; Martha smiles, Rick looks awestruck] What do you think? | |
| Rick Castle: | I think it's you. | |
-- from the ABC television program, Castle ( ABC, IMDB ); episode, "A Death in the Family", written by Andrew W. Marlowe and Barry Schindel, directed by Bryan Spicer, aired 2009-05-11