Up Close & Personal Quotes

An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in TV journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.

[Tally proposes marriage to Warren]
Tally Atwater: I want you around in the morning.
Warren Justice: You already have me around in the morning. How, I don't know, but you do.
Tally Atwater: I want to know you're legally required to be there.

Tally Atwater: What we in the news business can never forget is that we are only as good as the stories we tell.

[after sex]
Tally: Why didn't we do this before?
Warren: Because it was always gonna be this hard to stop.

Tally Atwater: Do you want to be with me?
Warren Justice: So much it hurts.

Tally: When I asked you how long you could stay and you said, 'Long enough,' how long is that? When we're not together...
Warren: ...Everything shuts down.

[Warren's advice about news headlines]
Warren Justice: "If it bleeds, it leads."

Rob Sullivan: Some people in this business get jaded because it's always the same awful stories. And it is the same stories - but they're happening to different people.