“I Am Hearing This, and I Want to Hear This” (The Devil Wears Prada)
The world’s greatest actors are also great observers who know how to study and copy people. And that’s precisely what Emily Blunt did in the 2006 comedy classic The Devil Wears Prada. Her now-famous line “I am hearing this, and I want to hear this” was reportedly inspired by a mom she overheard while filming.
The sentence stuck in Blunt’s head somehow and ended up being instinctively ad-libbed into the movie. At the time, screenwriters Aline Brosh McKenna and Lauren Weisberger had no idea it would be one of the film’s most memorable lines.