Sinéad Cusack credited as playing...
Miss Janet Smith
- [Miss Smith is in the bathroom next to the bedroom where Mr Hoffman lays in bed]
- Benjamin Hoffman: Ms Smith. Take a letter.
- Miss Janet Smith: What?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Take a letter Ms Smith.
- Miss Janet Smith: [comes out of the bathroom] Now?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Yes, now! To Miss Janet Smith, care of this address. Dear Miss Smith, go to bed. Your sincerely. Mr Benjamin Hoffman.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Aspirin.
- Miss Janet Smith: Where?
- Benjamin Hoffman: In the tea.
- Miss Janet Smith: Well, I don't want them in the tea.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Ah. Um, they fell in.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Girls all over the world are afraid of men with my expression.
- Miss Janet Smith: What expression?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Plain, sad-faced men.
- Miss Janet Smith: Tom's mother says that only French railway workers eat garlic.
- Benjamin Hoffman: You're very witty, Miss Smith.
- Miss Janet Smith: Really?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Witty and informative. You tell me volumes about Tom's mother in one simple sentence.
- Miss Janet Smith: How will I ever look Tom in the face again?
- Benjamin Hoffman: With guilt, apprehension, remembering the unspeakable - me.
- Miss Janet Smith: What you're doing to me is atrocious. It's the filthiest thing I've ever heard of.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Yes, I am filthy, yes, but there's no escaping one's fate.
- Miss Janet Smith: What's wrong with the old place?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Oh, well, you know - treacheries, miseries, failure, despair.
- Miss Janet Smith: [to Hoffman, out of his hearing range] I should've told Tom... and let him kill you!
- Benjamin Hoffman: Can you scramble eggs?
- Miss Janet Smith: Yes.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Your accomplishments never cease to amaze me, Miss Smith.
- Miss Janet Smith: There's something I want to ask you.
- Benjamin Hoffman: What is it you want to ask me?
- Miss Janet Smith: Can I give up going to work?
- Benjamin Hoffman: ...Yes.
- Miss Janet Smith: And can I have piano lessons?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Yes.
- Miss Janet Smith: From a real teacher?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Yes.
- Miss Janet Smith: And can I choose the things for the new kitchen?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Yes.
- Miss Janet Smith: And... and can I -
- Benjamin Hoffman: - Yes, anything!
- Miss Janet Smith: Are you hungry?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Women are always hungry for something. Fallopian tubes with teeth.
- Benjamin Hoffman: Once I knew a pretty girl, I loved her as my wife, but I put my hands about her neck, and relieved her... of her life.
- Miss Janet Smith: Why don't you want me to like you?
- Benjamin Hoffman: Why don't you stop staring me in the face with your doomed youth?