Shirley MacLaine credited as playing...
Aurora Greenway
- Aurora Greenway: Do you have any reaction at all to my telling you I love you?
- Garrett Breedlove: I was just inches from a clean getaway.
- Aurora Greenway: Excuse me. It is after ten. Give my daughter the pain shot, please.
- Nurse: Mrs. Greenway, I was going to.
- Aurora Greenway: Oh, good, go ahead.
- Nurse: In just a few minutes.
- Aurora Greenway: Well, please - it's, it's after ten. It's after ten. I don't see why she has to have this pain.
- Nurse: Ma'am, it's not my patient.
- Aurora Greenway: [increasingly hysterically] It's time for her shot! Do you understand? Do something! All she had to do is hold out until ten! And it's past ten! She's - in pain, my daughter's in pain! Give her the shot, do you understand me?
- Nurse: You're going to behave...
- Aurora Greenway: [at the top of her lungs] Give my daughter the shot!
- Nurse: [walks away to give Emma the shot]
- Aurora Greenway: Thank you very much. Thank you.
- [Arriving back from their first date]
- Aurora Greenway: Would you like to come in?
- Garrett Breedlove: I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
- Aurora Greenway: Everything would have been just fine, you know, if you hadn't gotten drunk. I was... I... I just didn't want you to think I was like one of your other girls.
- Garrett Breedlove: Not much danger in that unless you curtsy on my face real soon.
- Aurora Greenway: Garrett! What is it that makes you so insistent on shocking and insulting me? I mean, I really hate that way of talking. You must know this. Why do you do it?
- Garrett Breedlove: I'll tell you, Aurora. I don't know what it is about you, but you do bring out the devil in me.
- [upon hearing of her daughter's pregnancy]
- Aurora Greenway: Why should I be happy about being a GRANDMOTHER?
- Flap Horton: Does this mean you won't be knitting the baby any booties?
- Aurora Greenway: I just don't want to fight anymore.
- Emma Horton: What do you mean? When do we fight?
- Aurora Greenway: WHEN do we FIGHT? I always think of us as fighting!
- Emma Horton: That's because you're never satisfied with me.
- Aurora Greenway: [to Flap] Raising three children, working full-time *and* chasing women requires a lot more energy than you have. You know, one of the nicest qualities about you has always been that you recognized your weaknesses. *Don't* lose that quality now just when you need it the most!
- Dr. Maise: We do more and more on an outpatient basis. We shouldn't need to take her back, unless the illness escalates.
- Aurora Greenway: But you're not telling me anything.
- Dr. Maise: What are you confused about?
- Aurora Greenway: How is she?
- Dr. Maise: I tell people to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
- Aurora Greenway: And they let you get away with that?
- Aurora Greenway: [to workmen hanging her paintings] Careful there. Those are worth more than you'll ever make in your lifetime.
- [everyone stares at her]
- Emma Horton: [sighs] I grew up with it my whole life. You can take it for a couple of minutes.
- Garrett Breedlove: You're just going to have to trust me about this one thing. You need a lot of drinks.
- Aurora Greenway: To break the ice?
- Garrett Breedlove: To kill the bug that you have up your ass.
- Aurora Greenway: I'm inviting you to come over and look at my Renoir.
- Garrett Breedlove: You're inviting me to bed.
- Aurora Greenway: It happens to be in my bedroom.
- Garrett Breedlove: Is the Renoir under the covers?
- Aurora Greenway: Don't cackle, Garrett. Do you want to see it?
- Garrett Breedlove: [on their first date] Aurora...
- Aurora Greenway: Yes?
- Garrett Breedlove: You're not *fun*, by any chance, are you?
- Aurora Greenway: I don't really think we should think about that right now.
- [pause]
- Aurora Greenway: Impatient boys sometimes miss dessert!
- Aurora Greenway: If I don't answer the bell, that means the back door's open.
- Garrett Breedlove: The back door's open?
- Garrett Breedlove: Breedlove at the helm! Just keep pumping that throttle! Keep giving it that gas! I see the Gulf of Mexico below me!
- Aurora Greenway: I'm not enjoying this!