Quotes
 Gabe: It was the pain that had no name.
[talking about love] Leslie: Maybe not everything is supposed to last forever. Certain things are like... like... skywriting. Like, like, like a really beautiful thing that lasts for a couple moments and then... You know?
Gabe: [cries] Mommy!
Leslie: I know, honey. Love sucks.
Gabe: Yeah.
Gabe: Look at them all. Rats in their cages, their lives destroyed by love. I`m done with it. I won`t be like them. The fools.
Gabe: It`s amazing how quickly time moves. Just yesterday, I thought I loved her, but now, I don`t even care about her at all.
Gabe: See, life is about so much more than Rosemary. I had my family, my health, my kicking career. I really had no room for a woman in my life.
Gabe: Dad, what`s the deal with girls? I mean, why are they the way they are?
Adam: You`re talking to the wrong man.
Gabe: Well, how come all love has to end?
Adam: Let me tell you something about me and your mom. Once upon a time, we really loved each other, but as time went by, there just got to be all these things, little things, stupid things, that were left unsaid. And all these things that were left unsaid piled up, like the clutter in our storage room. And after awhile, there was so much that was left unsaid, that we barely said anything at all.
Gabe: Well, why didn`t you just say them then, dad?
Adam: I don`t know, Gabe. I kind of wish I had.
Gabe: Somewhere a million miles away, the girl I once loved was going down her road, and I was stuck back on mine.
Gabe: I couldn`t escape them, all the little things I left unsaid, I was drowning in them.
Gabe: Suddenly, I knew what I had to do. Love isn`t about ridiculous little words. Love is about grand gestures. Love is about airplanes pulling banners over stadiums, proposals on jumbo-trons, giant words in sky writing. Love is about going that extra mile even if it hurts, letting it all hang out there. Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn`t even know was there.
Rosemary: But I thought you hate me.
Gabe: I don`t. I lied.
Gabe: [thinking] I wasn`t gonna be like my father. I wasn`t gonna let all these things left unsaid smother me.
Gabe: Rosemary, I love you.
Rosemary: You what?
Gabe: I do. I`m sorry, but I love you more than anyone`s ever loved. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Gabe: [thinking] How`s that for letting it all hang out there? And hang, and hang, and hang.
Gabe: You think you might wanna love me, too?
Rosemary: I don`t know what I think, Gabe, I`m only 11. I don`t think I`m ready to be in love.
Gabe: I`m not ready and I`m doing it!
Rosemary: Maybe I was wrong, maybe girls don`t mature faster.
Gabe: No they do, they do, you know they do. You even said so at the park. We at least mature at the same rate.
Rosemary: I don`t know what mature is anymore, but I`m really happy you came. Do you want to dance, Gabe?
Gabe: Sure, what the hell.
Gabe: As I held onto Rosemary Telesco for dear life, we both knew the truth. She was going off to camp and eventually, private school. We were on different roads, she and me. Two ships that passed in Sheep Meadow.
abe: See, this is just like I told you. Same thing I knew getting into this whole mess - love ends.
Gabe: The truth is, you come into this world alone and leave it the exact same way.
Gabe: Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. It`ll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you can`t ever shake. The truth is, there`s gonna be other girls out there. I mean, I hope. But I`m never gonna get another first love. That one is always gonna be her.
Gabe: Is there anything worse than dress shopping? I would rather have my toenails peeled off one by one with pliers than spend five minutes in the dress store.
Gabe: [watching Rosemary looking at herself in the mirror in her flower girl dress] Okay, what`s going on here? What the heck is this? Oh my God. What`s this feeling in the pit of my stomach? Who is this - this amazing creature before me? I looked at Rosemary and just felt so, um, confused. She`s a girl. I`m supposed to despise girls, not feel nervous talking to one, not feel tongue-tied. I mean this was Rosemary Telesco, I knew her since Kindergarten!
Gabe: [thinking] My first date. The big spender. Häagen-Dazs all the way, baby. So, how come I have nothing to say to her. Why isn`t she looking at me? Am I that hideous? Do I Smell?
Gabe: You um come here often?
Rosemary: Central Park?
Gabe: Um, yeah.
Gabe: [thinking] What kind of question is that? I hate myself.
Gabe: I was charming and suave. Everything you could hope to be on your first real date.
Gabe: [thinking] Geez it was easier scheduling Arab-Israeli peace talks than making a date with this girl!
Gabe: Does she like like me?
Gabe: Never had I felt so alive! I had a date with Rosemary! Was there any better age to be in any better city in the world?
Gabe: [practicing in the mirror] Hey Rosemary. Hey there, pretty lady. How`s it goin, girl? Hey, Rosemary Telesco.
Gabe: I loathed myself for feeling like I did. I mean, this is crazy. She`s a girl for God`s sake, it`s not like she`s a New York Knick or something
Leslie: I didn`t know you were having a play date, or I wouldn`t have made plans. Should I stay?
Gabe: It`s not a play date, mom, it`s practice.
Gabe: [thinking while standing with Rosemary and Ronny] Is there anything more excruciating than you and your date and your mom`s date all hanging out with absolutely nothing to say?
Ronny: Don`t do anything I wouldn`t do, okay kiddo?
Gabe: Okay, that`s more excruciating.
Gabe: This was no time for small talk. It was time to lay things on the table. To reach through the phone line and dig deep into that woman`s soul.
Gabe: Where`s that Rosemary? The Rosemary I loved? Not this alien with her crazy weekends!
Gabe: [after intense karate battle daydream] If only life were that simple.
Gabe: [thinking] And the next morning, something kind of amazing happened. The sun came out again.
Gabe: This much I know firsthand - love hurts.
Old Man on the Street: I had a girlfriend once upon a time, too. She trampled my heart. Left me bleeding on the floor. Run.
Gabe: What?
Old Man on the Street: Run while you still can, brother. Take my advice. Make like the wind.
Karate Sensei: And Gabe, your new sparring partner will be David Betanahu.
Gabe: What choice did I have but to return to my old, miserable life? Wait a minute. You were happy. Oh, please! I was miserable. I just didn`t know how miserable I was.
Gabe: Look at me. I can bounce back. I don`t need some girl in my life for me to happy.
Gabe: There are very few things more painful than watching the woman you love grapple with another man. Actually, I take that back. There are no things more painful.
Gabe: But it wasn`t that easy. I guess love never is.
Adam: I just cleared some old stuff out of the storage room.
Gabe: Never had I been so keenly aware of the ability of palm to manufacture sweat, but I was determined to hold that girl`s hand for every single second.
Trivia
AnnaSophia Robb auditioned for the role of Rosemary.
The young Rosemary, seen running with Gabe in his apartment while smearing paint on the wall, is played by the director`s daughter.
The director`s mother-in-law appears as one of the guests at the wedding. She`s the lady who walks pass Rosemary`s parents after we see Rosemary and Gabe going to the dance floor.
Charlie Ray`s aunt saw a casting call for the role of Rosemary in a newspaper. She took her niece, who has never auditioned for anything before, to the audition.
Shot entirely on location in New York.
Charlie Ray`s film debut.
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# Charlie Ray grew so much during the shoot that, in some scenes, Josh Hutchinson had to stand on crates to keep their height differences constant in the film.
The boy who throws up is Connor Hutcherson, Josh Hutcherson`s brother.
The first film to sport the official logo of the New York Mayor`s Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting.
Gabe and Rosemary`s on-screen "first kiss" was actually the first kiss for actors Josh Hutcherson and Charlie Ray in real life.
In the scenes where Gabe and Rosemary are talking on the telephone, filmmakers decided not to use cordless phones because they wanted an old-fashioned feel to the movie.
Both writers/directors are married and wrote the script within 6 weeks together.
The scene where Gabe gets in trouble for running off with Rosemary was a real event that happened to the director with his girlfriend when he was 16.
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Joshua Hutcherson
(as Gabe)
with Charlie Ray
(as Rosemary)
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