Shirley MacLaine credited as playing...
Louisa May Foster
- Louisa May Foster: You know the indifference I felt?
- Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley: Hmmm?
- Louisa May Foster: Well, it's beginning to change. It's beginning to blossom into complete contempt.
- Louisa May Foster: Edgar had left me approximately 2 million dollars in cash and securities. And as Thoreau probably never said, that's a lotta lettuce.
- Louisa May Foster: Dr. Svenson, do you think I'm crazy too?
- Dr. Victor Stephanson: The, the name is Stephanson, Victor Stephanson. And, uh, we never use that word around here.
- Louisa May Foster: [Having swum out to Edgar in his fishing boat] Imagine finding you here. I just happened to be swimming by.
- Edgar Hopper: Well, you scared the fish away.
- Louisa May Foster: You could pull me in.
- Louisa May Foster: What's the matter, darling?
- Edgar Hopper: Oh, nothing. I, I think I'll go down to the store for a little while this afternoon.
- Louisa May Foster: But you were there just 10 days ago.
- Edgar Hopper: You know, it's the end of summer. People come from vacation. Somebody might want something.
- Louisa May Foster: Darling, I checked the hotels in Rome and I have the reservations for our vacation.
- Edgar Hopper: I'm sorry, honey, that'll have to wait 'til next year.
- Louisa May Foster: Next year?
- Edgar Hopper: Yes, next year. In the meantime, get yourself a couple of art books and a box of spaghetti.
- Larry Flint: [Spread out on the front seat of a cab Louisa has just entered in the back] I ain't got all day, lady. Where do you wanna go?
- Louisa May Foster: Oh, you speak English.
- Larry Flint: All of us foreigners do. It's compulsory.
- Louisa May Foster: You American?
- Larry Flint: Naw. Naw, lady. I'm a Russian spy for the C.I.A.
- Larry Flint: Money corrupts. Art erupts.
- Louisa May Foster: Oh, that's a beautiful saying.
- Larry Flint: It's immortal. I just made it up.
- Louisa May Foster: What Larry Flint had left over in cash, plus the sale of his remaining pictures, brought me in the neighborhood of $4 million in American money. It was an amount even Picasso wouldn't be ashamed of.
- Nicky Cathcart: I do hope the two of you can come down to us for a shoot.
- Louisa May Foster: Mmm. Love to. We always get a bang out of a shoot.
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: I'm reminding you to remind me to tell you that I love you.
- Louisa May Foster: Thank you for reminding me. I'm reminding you that you said to remind me to tell me that you love me.
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: Thank you for reminding me.
- Louisa May Foster: Thank you.
- Louisa May Foster: Are you faced with ruin?
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: I am three times as rich as I was the day we got married.
- Louisa May Foster: Oh, no.
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: I'll go feed Melissa and you milk the chickens, huh?
- Louisa May Foster: Can't it wait 'til tomorrow?
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: That shows how much you know about farmin'. You don't milk her now, she'll be woo mooin' all night long.
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- Louisa May Foster: Rod had sold out everything so quickly that his fortune was pitifully reduced. It came to a mere $150 million.
- Louisa May Foster: Oh, I was left with another $30 million and I flew right down to Washington, and that brings us up to date.
- Edgar Hopper: [Gesturing from his simple cabin to the town] Louisa, you mean you'd take this instead of all that? But, Louisa, I've got nothing. I'll... I'll always have nothing. I'll always be nothing.
- Louisa May Foster: Edgar, that's what I want: nothing. To quote me and not Thoreau, I love you.
- Louisa May Foster: Edgar, it's Christmas.
- Edgar Hopper: Yes, and Christmas is business--big business.
- Louisa May Foster: Well, a tycoon's work is never finished, is it? That's what you call yourself, isn't it? A tycoon?
- Rod Anderson, Jr.: Absolutely! Absolutely! Every morning I get up and look at myself in the mirror, and I say, "Good morning, tycoon!"