Smash (TV Series)

Hell on Earth (2012)

Katharine McPhee: Karen Cartwright

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Quotes 

• Jason : [orange juice commercial rehearsal]  Hi, Karen, hi! You look fantastic!

  Karen Cartwright : [skintight green body-stocking]  Really? I feel like a frog.

• Karen Cartwright : [after on-stage fiasco, Ivy has gone out in the street wearing angel costume]  Ivy! Ivy, wait!

  Ivy Lynn : [mumbling to herself]  Oh, you got to be kidding!

  Karen Cartwright : [catching up]  Are you okay?

  Ivy Lynn : You saw that? Oh, of course, you were right there to see everything. Did you enjoy it?

  Karen Cartwright : No, of course not.

  Ivy Lynn : [softly mocking]  Of course not.

  [continues on her way] 

  Karen Cartwright : Wait! I have your sunglasses.

  Ivy Lynn : [smirks]  You're returning my sunglasses? You know what I did when I found your sunglasses? I threw them out!

  Karen Cartwright : Whatever.

  [turns, heads off] 

  Ivy Lynn : You're nothing special! There are thousands of girls just like you! Millions of girls just like you! And you think this

  [looks down at her chorus girl costume] 

  Ivy Lynn : will never happen to you?

  [breaks down:] 

  Ivy Lynn : This was supposed to be my time...

  Karen Cartwright : It is your time. You're on Broadway. You're Marilyn Monroe.

  Ivy Lynn : I was Marilyn for like five seconds.

  Karen Cartwright : But I never got to do it even once, so maybe you should stop complaining about how lousy your life is.

  Ivy Lynn : [tearful tirade]  You were weak, you were naïve, you didn't want it enough, you didn't put enough on the line...

  Karen Cartwright : Yeah, okay. I didn't sleep with Derek, and you're right, I didn't do enough. But trust me, it wasn't because he didn't ask. You were the first choice. Sorry.

  Ivy Lynn : Please. My mother said worse things than that regularly at Sunday dinner.

• Ivy Lynn : [collapsed onto bed, exhausted, still in angel costume]  Hey, we're now best friends now, okay?

  Karen Cartwright : I know.

  Ivy Lynn : [sleepily]  Good.