Ethel Merman credited as playing...
Molly Donahue
- Molly Donahue: "Don't worry." Hmm. That's a laugh. You start worrying about your kids the day they're born and you never stop. Even after they bury you, I bet you never stop.
- Tim Donahue: [Molly is dunking Tim's head in a sink full of water to sober him up] Mom!
- Molly Donahue: Big man now. Coming home like...
- [she dunks his head under water]
- Tim Donahue: You're drowning me!
- [she dunks his head again]
- Molly Donahue: Don't put any ideas in my head!
- Molly Donahue: You've gotta stop 'em, Terry!
- Terry Donahue: Me?
- Molly Donahue: Certainly. You run this act.
- Terry Donahue: Ha, all of a sudden, when something goes wrong, I run the act.
- Molly Donahue: Don't raise your voice to me!
- Terry Donahue: Who do you think *you* are, Whispering Jack Smith?
- Molly Donahue: Then fit Lew Harris into this pretty picture, will you?
- Vicky Parker: Lew did everything for me. You know that. Maybe he did have some ideas. That doesn't mean that I shared them. There was never anyone for me but Tim.
- Molly Donahue: [speaking of their children] I want them to have an education, a real education. They have to learn arithmetic and spelling and geography.
- Terry Donahue: You never went past the sixth grade. And it was probably the fourth grade, because you said it was the sixth.
- Molly Donahue: My age is the only thing I lie about, and I don't add on, I take off.
- Terry Donahue: All right, the sixth grade, but there's nothing wrong with your arithmetic. You can whistle 'Mandy', do an 'Off to Buffalo', and count the house at the same time, and tell me within five cents how much is out there.
- Molly Donahue: That's not arithmetic.
- Terry Donahue: You're darn right that's not, that's higher mathematics.