Dianne Wiest movie quotes

“- Kevin: Man, those things are cool! You know, I bet they're razor-sharp. One karate chop to a guy's neck...
- Peg Boggs: Kevin...! Edward... would you like some butter for your bread? Great!
- Edward: Thank you.
- Kevin: Hey, can I bring him to show and tell on Monday?
- Peg Boggs: Kevin, I've had enough.”
Robert Oliveri - Kevin
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

“- Peg Boggs: Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as cherry pie...
- Peg Boggs: Oh - I can see that I've disturbed you. I'll just be going now...
- Edward: Don't go.
- Peg Boggs: [sees his scissor hands] Oh, my. What happened to you?
- Edward: I'm not...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

“- Helen: You did these things right here? In my house?
- Julie: Well, I thought someone in this house ought to be having sex. I mean with something that doesn't require batteries.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen
Martha Plimpton - Julie

“- David Shayne: Was there nothing in the original draft that you feel was worth saving?
- Helen Sinclair: The stage directions were lucid. Best I've ever seen... and the color of the binder. Good choice.
- David Shayne: Thank you. I've always had a flair for stage directions.”
John Cusack - David Shayne
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair

“- Peg Boggs: My, those are your hands? Those are your hands! What happened to you? Where are your parents? Um... Your mother? Your father?
- Edward: He didn't wake up.
- Peg Boggs: Are you alone? Do you live up here all by yourself? What happened to your face? No, I won't hurt you. But at the very least, let me give you a good astringent. And...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands

“- David Shayne: Your taste is exquisite.
- Helen Sinclair: My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite.”
John Cusack - David Shayne
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair

“- Jack Parker: Pick a new name. Pick a name, any name. Come on.
- Nancy Morgan: Oh... uh. I can't think of any.
- Jack Parker: How about Laura?
- Nancy Morgan: Oh, God! That's worse than the one I've got!
- Jack Parker: Hey, what's wrong with your name? It's beautiful just like you are. You're beautiful.”
Keith David - Jack Parker
Dianne Wiest - Nancy Morgan

- Mrs. Copperbottom: I told you I'd find him! It's a mother's instinct.
- Herb Copperbottom: What instinct? He left us a note, "I'm leaving, I'll be at the train station".
Dianne Wiest - Mrs. Copperbottom
Stanley Tucci - Herb Copperbottom

“You stand on the brink of greatness. The world will open to you like an oyster. No... not like an oyster. The world will open to you like a magnificent vagina.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair

“- Helen: Tod?
- Tod: Yeah?
- Helen: Do you want me to make you breakfast?
- Tod: No thanks, Julie will.
- Helen: Great. I'll get the fire extinguisher.”

Dianne Wiest - Helen
Keanu Reeves - Tod

“She's perky all right. She makes you want to sneak up behind her with a pillow and suffocate her.”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair

“Tom's a good man. He's got a gift, I swear it's from Heaven above. But he's just a man.”
Dianne Wiest - Diane Booker

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Jason Patric - Michael
Dianne Wiest - Lucy
Corey Haim - Sam
Barnard Hughes - Grandpa

“- Helen: Weren't you just here?
- Peg: No, not since last season. Today I've come to show our equisite new line in softer colors, in shadows blushes and lips. Everything you need to accent and highlight your changing look.
vHelen: My changing look huh thats good.
- Peg: Well it goes without saying we have a complete selection of your old...” (continue)(continue reading)
Conchata Ferrell - Helen
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Peg: Kevin, it's not polite to stare. Think how it would make you feel if somebody were staring at you.
- Kevin: I wouldn't care.
- Peg: Well, I would, so don't do it!”
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Robert Oliveri - Kevin

“- Helen Sinclair: I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.
- Sid Loomis: You're talking Chinese New Year's.
- Helen Sinclair: Naturally. Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Sid Loomis

“- Bill: So Edward, did you have a productive day?
- Edward: Mrs Monroe showed me where the salon's going to be.
- Edward: [turns to Peg] You could have a cosmetics counter.
- Peg Boggs: Oh, wouldn't that be great!
- Bill: Great.
- Edward: And then she showed me the back room where she took all of her clothes off.”
Alan Arkin - Bill
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- George Bowman: You're going to be a grandma?
- Helen: No, no, no, no. I'm too young to be a grandmother. Grandmothers are old. They bake, and they sew, and they tell you stories about the Depression. I was at Woodstock, for Christ's sake! I peed in a field! I hung on to The Who's helicopter as it flew away!”
Paul Linke - George Bowman
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“- 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

“- Julie: I can't do this! This is too intense!
- Helen: This is marriage!”
Martha Plimpton - Julie
Dianne Wiest - Helen

“It's said that a genius learns without studying, and knows without learning. That he is eloquent without preparation, exact without calculation, and profound without reflection.”
Dianne Wiest - Jane Grierson

“l assume you're watching these because you're curious about sex... you know. Or filmmaking.”

Dianne Wiest - Helen