Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Mary Wickes: Grandma
Quotes
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Grandma : Oh, go on and cry. You'll pee less, as my grandma used to say.
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Suzanne : Aw, shut up, Grandma.
Grandma : I beg your pardon?
Suzanne : I should think you would.
Grandma : You see there? Now if you washed her mouth out with soap when she was little, like I told you, maybe she'd have some respect now!
Suzanne : [talks over] I'm simply suggesting we all try to enjoy one each other without having to assign blame.
Grandma : Ooh, listen to Miss Snootybritches. "Assign blame," hee hee.
Suzanne : [pushes her towards the door] Come on!
Grandma : Just what do you think you're doing, young lady?
Suzanne : I'm moving you out to the waiting room.
Grandma : Well, there's no need to shove! I'm going! You know what you need? I good pop on the butt like I used to give your mother! I--
[Suzanne shuts the door on her]
Doris : If I thought I made you feel like that, I'd kill myself.
Suzanne : Don't say that, even in jest, Ma, particularly when you're in a hospital. People might take it the wrong way.
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Suzanne : Did you want some more cashews, Grandpa?
Grandpa : Did I already have some?
Grandma : [under her breath, to Aretha] He gets worse every day.
Grandpa : Who gets worse? I heard that! Get off my back, woman! I wanna go home!
Grandma : We're going home, dear.
Grandpa : Not with you! I wanna go home.
[smiles at Aretha]
Grandpa : Are we going soon?
Aretha : Soon, sir. Very, very soon.
Grandpa : You know what my daddy did?
Aretha : What?
Grandpa : [confused] What were we talking about?
Grandma : [under her breath, to Aretha] I told ya.
Grandpa : I heard that! Get out my back, woman! Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap--that's all you do all the livelong day!
[singing]
Grandpa : And the farmer hauled another load away...
[wanders off across the lawn]
Grandma : [sighs] The other night he punched me when I was trying to put some clean pajamas on him.