Grace Quigley (1984)

Katharine Hepburn: Grace Quigley

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• Grace Quigley : He *took* my shoe!

  Seymour Flint : You mean, you want me to kill somebody because they *took* your shoe?

  Grace Quigley : Seymour, it was my best shoe!

  Seymour Flint : Ma, you're asking me to commit murder!

  Grace Quigley : Son, I may ask you to kill, but I would never ask you to murder! Call it pest control.

• Seymour Flint : You know, I've never known any old people before.

  Grace Quigley : Neither had I until one day I looked around and discovered I was one.

• Seymour Flint : I guess I can do a lot of people some good, can't I?

  Grace Quigley : I told you, Seymour. Think of yourself as a doctor. A doctor saves the lives of those who want to live, you take the lives of those who want to die. Seymour, listen to me, those five people who need your services are all lovely people. They need your help and your talent to free them of their misery. Seymour, listen to me - I was a good mother, I never told any of my children to do anything wrong and I wouldn't tell you. So be a good boy, Seymour. Help them! Kill them!

• Grace Quigley : If Oscar goes, I go!

• Grace Quigley : How much do you charge to give someone the rub, or whatever it;s called in your profession?

• Grace Quigley : You have to take care of yourself, so that you can take care of me. Now drink up.

• Grace Quigley : [the singing stops]  But Seymour, there's another verse.

  Seymour Flint : Not this time, Ma.

  Grace Quigley : Ohhh.