“- Tess, the mother: I think you have these qualities that you demand and when you meet a nice man you disqualify him for the smallest fault.
- Bea: That's not true.
- Tess, the mother: So, what was wrong with Nat Bernstein?
- Bea: He wore white socks with a tuxedo!”
Julie Kavner - Tess, the mother
Dianne Wiest - Bea

“You're sensitive. An uncommon quality in a man.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Ari

"She's got the three things that really matter in a wife" everyone said, "Breeding, brains and beauty". And I believed them - completely. But I never had a moment of happiness with her.

Laurence Olivier - "Maxim" de Winter

“The very things that held you down are gonna carry you up!”

Edward Brophy - Timothy Q. Mouse

“I think the whole Octopus philosophy is poison. The only aim of any and every McCain business is to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize and halve the quality, to make enough money to acquire another business to downsize, without ever running a single one of them really well.”
John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee