Anne Bancroft credited as playing...
Edna Edison
- Edna: We've been robbed.
- Mel: What do you mean, "robbed"?
- Edna: Robbed. Robbed! What does "rob" mean? They come in, they take things out. You had 'em, now they got 'em. They used to be yours, now they're theirs. We've been robbed!
- Mel: Uh, I don't understand... You mean someone walked in here and robbed us?
- Edna: What do you think, they called up and made an appointment? We've been ROBBED!
- Edna: I thought you wanted to do something, help him.
- Harry Edison: We *do* want to help him!
- Edna: Then help him!
- Harry Edison: Not when he's sick. When he's better, we'll help him.
- Edna: Mel, who's behind the plot? Is it the kids? The addicts? The Army? The Navy? The Book-of-the-month Club? Who?
- Mel: It is the human race. The deterioration of the spirit of Man. Man undermining himself, causing a self-willed, self-imposed, self-evident self-destruction! That's what it is. That's who it is.
- Edna: The human race, Mel?
- Mel: Yes.
- Edna: The human race is responsible for the unemployment?
- Mel: You're surprised, aren't you?
- Edna: I never would've guessed. All this time, I kept thinking it was somebody else.
- Mel: And as sure as you are sitting here in this room, there is a plot going on in this country today.
- Edna: Against whom?
- Mel: Against me!
- Edna: The whole country?
- Mel: Well, not against me personally. But they're after you, our kids, my family, every one of our friends. They're after the cops, hippies, the government, women's lib, the blacks, the fags, the whole military complex and even more.
- Edna: Who? You mentioned everybody, there's no one left.
- Mel: Oh, baby, there's someone left, all right.
- Edna: If Mel could get out of New York and move to the country somewhere, he'd be one hundred percent better off.
- Harry Edison: I agree with you one thousand percent!
- Edna: Come on, Mel. I haven't seen you since breakfast yesterday, and I'm gonna' be fast asleep in 15 minutes. Talk to me. What did you do today?
- Mel: [with sarcasm in his tone] I took a *walk*!
- Edna: Good. Where?
- Mel: From the bedroom into the living room.
- Edna: That's all?
- Mel: Mm mm. Then I walked back into the bedroom... and once I went into the kitchen for a glass of water. I'd say that was my "high peak" of the day.