Mia Farrow credited as playing...
Alice
- Alice: Here's the story. A woman who's never done a dishonest thing in her life, finds herself falling into a love affair with a musician.
- Nancy Brill: It's a little vague, Alice.
- Alice: Well. Really? You think?
- Nancy Brill: Look, be honest. What do you know about that kind of woman?
- Alice: Well, I...
- Nancy Brill: Who's the woman? Who's the man? Who's the poor husband? Where does it go? What makes it interesting? Is it lurid? Is it sexual? Perverse? Is she a whore? What's the matter? You look pale.
- Trainer: Ready to get off some cellulite?
- Alice: My back is just killing me. I don't know what I've done to it. I've had it x-rayed, I've been to my chiropractor, I had a shiatsu massage, I've been...
- Trainer: Have you tried acupuncture?
- Alice: I'm scared of needles. I don't know.
- Trainer: There's a Dr. Yang. He's supposed to be pretty good.
- Alice: I wonder if I had a Swede walk on it?
- Alice: One last thing. I remember the first time I heard Coltrane on soprano. Until then it had just been tenor, of course, but, it was such a moment, Joe. Opened a whole new world of harmonics for me.
- Alice: Is that where you where you met your wife? In commercials?
- Joe: Yeah, exactly. We were doing a spot for some detergent.
- Alice: Detergent.
- Joe: It was love at first sight. Christ, within half an hour we were making love in the ladies' room. Oh, excuse me.
- Alice: No, that's fine. You have a very charming way of telling things.
- Alice: This is a big step for me. I just feel - shouldn't it happen more gradually or something?
- Joe: Well, it hasn't exactly been rushed.
- Alice: Been rushed? Well, I don't know. It feels rushed. It feels rushed. I've been married now 15 years. I probably I'm just out of practice or something.
- Joe: It's not like juggling. You don't have to practise.
- Doug: Lou Gimbel's wife has been on him for working too. So, finally, he rented a store on Lexington Avenue and he's going to bankroll her and she's opening a boutique.
- Alice: Oh, really?
- Doug: Or, a sweater shop. But, I thought to myself, that's something. Possibly, on a part-time basis, you could help out. You have a nice personality and you know sweaters.
- Alice: It's just not really what I had in mind, you know.
- Alice: Sometimes I think I'm not raising my children with the right values. That I'm spoiling them. Not exposing them to the things that matter most. When I was young, I wanted to be a saint. I used to pray with my arms outstretched because it was more painful and I could feel closer to God. I wanted to spend my life helping people, taking care of the sick and the old people. I was never happier than when I got a chance to help out that way. What happened? Where did that part of me go?
- Alice: But then when dad died you drank yourself to death with, with margaritas.
- Alice's Mother: I couldn't help it darling. You know I couldn't resist the taste of salt around the rim of a glass.
- Alice: I'm the wife, you know. I take care of the kids, I host the dinner parties, arrange the social schedule, try to look pretty so your friends can admire your taste. I've become one of those women who shops all day and gets pedicures. But I wanna be more. There's more to me.