Emma Thompson credited as playing...
Grace • Margaret Strauss
- Grace: [having accidentally shot Mike] I just shot him...
- Franklyn Madson: Thank you!
- [looks at Mike, then back at her]
- Franklyn Madson: Less work for Frankie!
- [Grace tries to shoot Franklyn but the gun jams]
- Franklyn Madson: [sighs] Antiques!
- Roman Strauss: It's not a bracelet, darling. It's an anklet, a very special anklet. Let's have your leg. It's really very old. The man I bought it from explained to me that when a husband gives this to his wife - they become - two halves of the same person. Nothing can - separate them. Not even death.
- Margaret Strauss: So we're stuck with each other.
- Grace: Why is it that I can recognize certain smells, that I know my right hand from my left, but I can't remember what my favorite color is or my favorite flower or - what kind of wine I like.
- Mike Church: Maybe you're lucky.
- Grace: Lucky? How so?
- Mike Church: You know, I was just thinking there must be a certain freedom that goes with living only in the present tense. At least you don't have to spend every day trying to forget your past.
- Gray Baker: I could be a good friend, Margaret.
- Margaret Strauss: What makes you such a good friend?
- Gray Baker: Well, I can talk baseball to a man and pay a stupid compliment to a woman. What else is there?
- Margaret Strauss: [at her wedding reception, at home, to her housekeeper] Inga, I was just upstairs.
- Inga: Yes?
- Margaret Strauss: Well, it's just that I thought - I mean, we had talked about you and Frankie moving into the guest room downstairs.
- Inga: Roman never said anything to me.
- Margaret Strauss: Well, what Mr. Strauss said or didn't say is irrelevant. You and I have already discussed this. Now, tonight, of all nights, I'd appreciate it if you weren't sleeping in the next room.
- Inga: Yes, Mrs. Strauss.
- Mike Church: Okey-dokey. I think I've heard enough.
- Franklyn Madson: Mr. Church, I really must insist that you refrain from talking during the session.
- Mike Church: The lady just told us she met a guy named Roman in 1948. I say the session's over.
- Franklyn Madson: On occasion, Mr. Church, hypnosis can take us back to our past lives as well as our past.
- Mike Church: You expect me just to run with that?
- Franklyn Madson: Let me remind you, yesterday this lady wasn't even speaking.
- Grace: [under hypnosis] Rachmaninoff was on the program that night.
- Roman Strauss: Not much of a life line, I'm afraid. But wait. I do see - Love. Passionate, everlasting love.
- Margaret: Does this work on a lot of women?
- Roman Strauss: I'll let you know.
- Margaret Strauss: So, any new tidbits from the press?
- Gray Baker: Zero. To tell you the truth, I miss the war.
- Margaret Strauss: Well, what an odd thing to say.
- Gray Baker: Doesn't seem to be much news anymore - all this back-to-normal stuff. The world's getting boring again.
- Mike Church: If it makes you feel any better, I can read tea bags.
- Grace: You're going to tell me my future?
- Mike Church: No. I'm going to tell you your past.
- Margaret Strauss: I don't care about Gray Baker! You can be so stupid sometimes. What happened - to the man who said that nothing could separate us, that we're two halves of the same person?
- Roman Strauss: He became - a nobody.
- Margaret Strauss: Is it really good to smoke so much?
- Gray Baker: No. That's why I started rolling my own. Figured it will slow me down.
- Margaret Strauss: Has it?
- Gray Baker: No. I just roll them faster.
- Margaret Strauss: He was looking at the anklet! The anklet that you specifically asked me to wear tonight so that everybody could see how rich we are - or were.
- Roman Strauss: Is that what you told him? That we're broke?
- Margaret Strauss: I didn't tell him anything.
- Roman Strauss: No! You just lifted up your dress!