Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Doris Day: Kate Robinson Mackay
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Quotes
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Suzie Robinson : I don't know you as well as I did when you were a child, but you were one of the dumbest children I ever met!
Kate Robinson Mackay : A girl's best friend is her mother!
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David Mackay : Gee, Ma, you act as if we were monsters or something.
Kate Robinson Mackay : Well, you are. You're just lucky that I happen to be peculiar and love monsters.
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Alfred North : [reads Larry Mackay's drama review of his wife's play] He says the Hooton Players are charming - particularly their leading lady - but they're wasting time on a twenty-year old play written by a man with no talent for writing plays - namely, himself. "It was rejected by every Broadway producer in terms so outraged, that I determined never to write another one, thus saving myself years of futile effort and frustration." Here comes the cherry on the banana split: "I have been under attack of late by my near and dear for what they consider my cruelty as a critic. But this glimpse of my past monstrosity has made me so grateful to those I once thought cruel, that I shall go on yelling "Tripe," whenever tripe is served."... Well, we certainly taught HIM a lesson!
Kate Robinson Mackay : This whole nonsensical thing is costing me everything important in my life... Do you think he'll come to the performance?
Alfred North : [Once again reads directly from the article] "Tonight when the curtain rises on "So Passion Dies" I shall be far, far away. And, dear reader, may I wish you the same good fortune."
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George Mackay : [slightly baffled by the rather masculine appearance of Dr. Sprouk] Excuse me, are you a lady or a man?
Kate Robinson Mackay : [embarrassed] George!
Dr. Sprouk : I'm a veterinarian, sonny. It's somewhere in-between.
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Kate Robinson Mackay : Darling, interesting people don't want to make friends with housewives.
Laurence Mackay : You shouldn't call yourself a housewife. You're so much more than that.
Kate Robinson Mackay : So is every other housewife.
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Kate Robinson Mackay : If they broke any important bones, they'll yell.
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Kate Robinson Mackay : [Wearily] How did I get older than you?
Suzie Robinson : No character, that's why.
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Suzie Robinson : Now up to now I don't think anything has happened between Larry and that nasty-looking girl.
Kate Robinson Mackay : She is a nasty looking, isn't she?
Suzie Robinson : But if you go on neglecting him, something will happen. Did you see the dress she had on?
Kate Robinson Mackay : Falsies.
Suzie Robinson : He doesn't know it. I hope. Did you see her make-up? Her hair?
Kate Robinson Mackay : Mother, what am I supposed to do? Wear a black lace negligee to the supermarket?
Suzie Robinson : No, that is not what you're supposed to do. I'll tell you what you are supposed to do. You pull yourself together, get this house in order, get on the phone, call Larry, tell him you miss him and you love him, and you want him to come home.
