Dianne Wiest movie quotes

“- Joyce: Shame on you, keeping your unusual guest all to Yourself. We think that's mighty selfish of you.
- Peg: No, it, it's... Things have just been a little hectic around here. That's all.
- Joyce: Oh, that was so sweet of you to want to correct the situation. What time does the barbecue begin?
- Peg: Barbecue?
- Joyce: Well, you intend to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Baker - Joyce
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Jim: [after seeing Edward accidentally cut Kim] Hey! Now you've done it!
- Kim: It was just a scratch Jim, really!
- Peg Boggs: What's going on?
- Jim: Call a doctor, he skewered Kim!
- Kim: He didn't skewer me!
- Jim: [now bullying and shoving Edward] You can't touch anything without destroying it! Who the hell do you think you are hanging...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anthony Michael Hall - Jim
Winona Ryder - Kim
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Tod: Um, a few months ago, Garry got his first... boner. You know what that is?
- Helen: If memory serves.
- Tod: Aw, great! Anyway, since then, he's been... uh... slappin' the salami. No offense.
- Helen: No.
- Tod: Apparently, he's goin' for a world record. Anyway, he was afraid there was something wrong with him, you know? Like he was a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Keanu Reeves - Tod
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“- Bill: Okay, a little ethics. You are walking down the street. You find a suitcase full of money. There's nobody around. No human person is in evidence. What do you do? A You keep the money. B You use it to buy gifts for your friends and your loved ones. C You give it to the poor. D You turn it into the police.
- Kim: That is really stupid.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alan Arkin - Bill
Winona Ryder - Kim
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Robert Oliveri - Kevin

“- Peg: Good morning Joyce. Avon calling.
- Joyce: Well Peg, have you gone blind? Can't you see there's a vehicle in my driveway?
- Peg: Yes.
- Joyce: Well don't you know that means I'm busy?”
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Kathy Baker - Joyce

“The light concealing cream goes on first, then you blend and blend and lend. Blending is the secret. More concealing for you? But you complexion is so fair. Now this has a touch of lavender in it. Give it a try here. Close enough. OK. This should do the trick here. I have another idea. We'll cover up the scars and start with a completely smooth...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dianne Wiest - Peg

“Hello? Hello? Hello? Avon calling. Oh, my. Hello? Hello? I'm Peg Boggs. I'm your local Avon representative. Hello? I... I'm sorry to barge in like this, but you don't have any reason to be afraid. Ooh! This is some huge house, isn't it? Thank goodness for those aerobics... classes. Hello? Hello?”

Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Mary: You were the love of my life, and the pain of my life. And I need you to know, it's all the world to me that you're here.
- Earl Stone: I love you Mary.
- Mary: More today than yesterday.
- Earl Stone: But not as much as tomorrow.”
Dianne Wiest - Mary
Clint Eastwood - Earl Stone

“- Nancy Morgan: Strange. I feel tired all the time.
- Mary Ann Taylor: Well, it's the Valium.
- Nancy Morgan: Yeah. No. It's a different sort of tired. It's... um... inside my bones. And it's real deep. Inside my bones.”
Dianne Wiest - Nancy Morgan
Kathleen Quinlan - Mary Ann Taylor

“- Julie: He said that he loved me.
- Helen: Men say that. They all say that. Then they cum.”
Martha Plimpton - Julie
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“- Emma: You're gonna get a champion roll in the hay.
- Tom Baxter: What, there's hay in the bedroom?”
Dianne Wiest - Emma
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter

“- Julie: I can't believe I trusted him...
- Helen: Well, what did you expect from a kid like that?
- Julie: Oh, Mom, back off. The last guy you dated stole our furniture.”
Martha Plimpton - Julie
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“- Tod: Hi. Where's my wife?
- Helen: She's still at school. She's got cheerleading practice.
- Tod: Bitchin'.”

Keanu Reeves - Tod
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“Do you know why I'm having sex with machinery? Because your father went to have a party and I stayed to raise two kids, and I have no life!”
Dianne Wiest - Helen

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Barnard Hughes - Grandpa
Dianne Wiest - Lucy

“- Penny: Shut up, Joseph. You're such a tight ass. Do you have to be so one-dimensional?
- Joseph: Excuse me for living in this dimension.”

Dianne Wiest - Penny
Kevin Kline - Joseph

“I can never sleep with the closet door open, either. Not even a crack. Sam, this is a terrible thing to admit, but I think that one of the reasons I divorced your father was because he never believed in the closet monster.”

Dianne Wiest - Lucy

“The formula is the star. I couldn't work inside that formula.”
Dianne Wiest

“You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.”
Dianne Wiest

“Sweet things happen. They still do.”
Dianne Wiest

“I worry if they take Lucy away from her father they will take away an enormous piece of her, and I worry that she will spend the rest of her life trying to fill that hole.”

Dianne Wiest - Annie

“- Helen Sinclair: Two martinis please, very dry.
- David Shayne: How'd you know what I drank?
- Helen Sinclair: Oh, you want one too? Three.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
John Cusack - David Shayne

“You see that couple here? Well, he's having an affair with the babysitter and she can eat a pound cake in under a minute.”
Dianne Wiest - Aunt Jet

“- Helen Sinclair: Make love to me.
- David Shayne: Here? Now?
- Helen Sinclair: I see no reason to wait.
- David Shayne: Jerome Kern is on the other side of the door.
- Helen Sinclair: Yes, he's a wonderful composer. You'll have to meet him. Now hang up your pants.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
John Cusack - David Shayne

- Helen Sinclair: I do plays put on by Balasco, or Sam Harris, not some Yiddish pant salesman turned producer. My ex-husband used to say, "If you're gonna go down, go down with the best of them".
- Sid Loomis: Which ex-husband?
- Helen Sinclair: Oh, I don't know which ex-husband. The one with the moustache.
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Sid Loomis