Hitch2005

Hitch:
Now, on the one hand, it is very difficult for a man to even speak to someone who looks like you. But, on the other hand, should that be your problem?

Sara:
So life's kind of hard all around.

Hitch:
Not if you pay attention. I mean, you're sending all the right signals - no earrings, heels under two inches, your hair is pulled back, you're wearing reading glasses with no book, drinking a Grey Goose martini, which means you had a hell of a week and a beer just wouldn't do it. And if that wasn't clear enough, there's always the "f*** off" that you have stamped on your forehead. because who is going to believe there is a man out there that can sit down beside a woman he doesn't know and genuinely be interested in who she is, what she does, without his own personal agenda?

Sara:
Yeah, I wouldn't even know what that would look like. So what would a guy like that say?

Hitch:
Well, he'd say, "My name is Alex Hitchens and I'm a consultant," but she wouldn't be interested in that because she would be just counting the seconds until he left...

Sara:
... Thinking he was like every other guy...

Hitch:
... Which life experience has taught her is a virtual certainty... but then he'd ask her name, and what she did for a living and she might blow him off, or she might say... ?

Sara:
"I'm Sara Melas and I run the gossip column at The Standard." Then he would ask all these penetrating questions about it because he's sincerely, if atypically, interested...

Hitch:
No.

Sara:
No?

Hitch:
He'd be interested... but he would see that there was no way of possibly making her realize, that he was for real.

Sara:
Ah...He could be funny, and charming, and refreshingly original.

Hitch:
Wouldn't help.

Sara:
Don't ya hate it when that happens?

Hitch:
Not really... they'd probably both lead the lives they were headed toward, and my guess is... they'd do just fine. It's a pleasure to have met you, Sara Melas.