Overboard (1987)

Katherine Helmond: Edith Mintz

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Quotes 

• Edith Mintz : But darling, if you have a baby, you won't be the baby anymore.

• Andrew : Champagne for everyone.

  Joanna : Andrew, I'd like a beer.

  Edith Mintz : A beer?

  Joanna : [takes a swig from a bottle]  Mmmmm, good stuff.

• Edith Mintz : [from her NYC penthouse]  He called you a what? Joanna, why are you so upset? What do you care what some carpenter from Elk Snout thinks of you?

  Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I'm sure I'm just premenstrual.

  Edith Mintz : Well then, you must go right back to bed for at least two days...

  Edith Mintz : [to her maid, who's been feeding Edith's small dog]  Inga! You don't shove the food down Shitake's throat. You place it on her tongue. Don't they have dogs in Sweden?

• Edith Mintz : Cigarette, darling?

  Annie : I don't smoke, Mother.

  [to Grant] 

  Annie : Do I?

  Grant Stayton : Of course you smoke. You've always smoked.

  Edith Mintz : I smoke.

  Dr. Norman Korman : Why don't we all smoke?

  Grant Stayton : Well, why do I have to smoke? I never smoked. I get sick when I smoke. Why is everyone always trying to make me do what I don't want to do?

  Edith Mintz : Grant, we are not interested in your therapy.

  Grant Stayton : I had my nervous breakdown and I didn't have therapy. I never had therapy!