

"If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it.So when it came time to film the revised happy ending, Billy Crystal ad-libbed much of his dialogue with Meg Ryan, including this most remembered line of the picture. Writer Nora Ephron’s first draft didn’t have Sally and Harry ending up together because she considered a breakup to be a more realistic ending. "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.".Filmmakers even changed the name of the fictional Mississippi town in the movie to Sparta so they wouldn’t have to pay to have the town’s water tower repainted. Poitier did not want to shoot the film in Mississippi because he had been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan when he had visited there with Harry Belafonte at the height of the civil rights movement in 1964, so most of it was filmed in Sparta, Illinois. The only way Paramount pictures would fund Mel Gibson's passion project about the 13th century Scottish noble was if he agreed to star in it as well as direct. "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!".When Barbra Streisand quotes it, he retorts, "That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard." One of the most parodied movie lines in cinema - even Ryan O’Neal himself poked fun at it in Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?.

"Love means never having to say you're sorry.".
