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[From Trailer][about Laurel's appeal being turned down] Steven Goldstein: This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Their next meeting we show up with 100 protesters.
Dane Wells: Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys.
Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*?
Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot.
Dane Wells: Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys.
Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*?
Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot.
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Laurel Hester: When my heterosexual partners die. Their pension goes to their spouses. But because my partner is a woman, I don't get to do that. In my twenty three years of being a police officer, I've never asked for special treatment. I'm only asking for equality.
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Steven Goldstein: Steven, with a V, that means Very Gay. And when people disrespect my gay brothers and sisters, I rain terror on them! Shock and awe, shock and awe.
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Dane Wells: [to his police team]Who's coming to the meeting? [no one responds]
Dane Wells: [angrily]Oh, don't put yourselves out. Laurel would back any of you up in a heartbeat. And she's dying! But hey, you know, she's a dyke, so who gives a shit? Cowards!
Dane Wells: [angrily]Oh, don't put yourselves out. Laurel would back any of you up in a heartbeat. And she's dying! But hey, you know, she's a dyke, so who gives a shit? Cowards!
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[From Trailer] Steven Goldstein: Hell! If you and I got married tomorrow, *I'd* be entitled to your benefits.
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Dane Wells: Oh my god!
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Dane Wells: Oh my god!
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[From Trailer][about Laurel's upcoming appeal] Toohey: If they say yes my tax dollars go to her girlfriend.
Dane Wells: Yeah. The same way your wife gets your pension if *you* die!
Toohey: Yeah, but she's my *wife*.
Dane Wells: Yeah. The same way your wife gets your pension if *you* die!
Toohey: Yeah, but she's my *wife*.
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Laurel Hester: You can drywall?
Stacie Andree: Hell yeah.
Laurel Hester: That's sexy.
Stacie Andree: Hell yeah.
Laurel Hester: That's sexy.
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Steven Goldstein: Hell! If you and I got married tomorrow, I'd be entitled to your benefits!
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Steven Goldstein: Oh honey. I would marry you, but I wouldn't know what to do with your vagina.
Laurel Hester: Wait, is that a proposal?
Steven Goldstein: Oh honey. I would marry you, but I wouldn't know what to do with your vagina.
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