I AM SAM [2001]

Love Is All You Need

All you need is love.

[Lucy]

I want no other daddy but you. [shouts]

Did you hear that? 

I said I didn't want any other daddy but him. 

Why don't you write that down? 

[Lucy, being observed]

[Sam]: You think what they think. 

[Rita]: It doesn't matter what I think. It matters that we win.

[Sam]: No, you think what they think. You think Sam can't take care of Lucy! 

[Rita]: Sam, it doesn't matter what I think! 

[Sam]: It matters to me! 

[Sam]: Yeah, but I tried, I tried hard. 

[Rita]: Try harder! 

[Sam]: Yeah, but you don't know, you don't know! 

[Rita]: I don't know WHAT?

[Sam]: Yeah, you don't know what is like when you try, and you try, and you try, and you try, and you don't ever get there! 

Because you were born perfect and I was born like this, and you're perfect! 

[Rita]: Oh, is that right? 

[Sam]: People like you don't know... 

[Rita]: People like me? 

[Sam]: People like you don't know what is like to get hurted. 

Because you don't have feelings. 

People like you don't feel anything! 

[Sam]: Lucy doesn't need me anymore. 

She has a new family now... and she doesn't need me anymore.

[Rita]: Is that what she said? 

[Sam]: It's because I know that. Because I just know that. 

[Rita]: Well. That's the first stupid thing I've ever heard you say.

[Rita]: Now, Ms. Cossell, in all the time that you've known them, have you ever questioned Sam's ability as a father? 

[Annie]: Never.

[Rita]: Never? 

[Annie]: Never. 

Look at Lucy. She's strong. She displays true empathy for people, all kinds of people. 

I know that you all think she's as smart as she is despite him, but it's because of him. 

[Rita]: So what you're saying is you don't worry about Lucy's future? 

[Annie]: No, I do. 

[Rita]: Ah... 

[Annie]: I worry all the time. 

I worry if they take Lucy away from her father they will take away an enormous piece of her, and I worry that she will spend the rest of her life trying to fill that hole. 

[Conner Rhodes]: Are you a retard too? 

[Lucy]: No! 

[Conner Rhodes]: How do you know?

[Lucy]: Because he told me. 

[Conner Rhodes]: But he's a retard!

[Lucy]: It takes one to know one. 

[Lucy]: Why are men bald? 

[Sam]: Sometimes they're bald because their head is shiny and they don't have hair on it. 

So their head is just more of their face.

[Lucy]: I won't read the word! 

[Sam]: I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. 
Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father. 
[Lucy]: I'm stupid.

[Sam]: You are not stupid! 

[Lucy]: Yes, I am. 

[Sam]: No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that word. 

[Lucy]: I don't wanna read it if you can't. 

[Sam]: No, because it makes me happy! 

It makes me happy hearing you read. 

Yeah, it makes me happy when you're reading. 

[Lucy]: Daddy, did God made for you to be like this or was it an accident?

[Sam]: Ok, what do you mean? 

[Lucy]: I mean you're different. 

[Sam]: But what do you mean? 

[Lucy]: You're not like other daddies. 

[Sam]: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Lucy]: It's ok, daddy. It's ok. Don't be sorry. 

I'm lucky. Nobody else's daddy ever comes to the park. 

[Sam]: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah, we are lucky. Aren't we lucky? Yeah! 

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