Rosalind Russell
(as Mame Dennis)
Mame Dennis:
[to Patrick who has unleashed sunlight on a very hung-over Mame] Child, how can you see with all that light?
Rosalind Russell
(as Mame Dennis)
Coral Browne
(as Vera Charles)
Gloria Upson:
Miss Charles, I've just got to tell you how I adored you in "Mary of Scotland."
Vera Charles: Did you dear? That was Helen Hayes.
Vera Charles: Did you dear? That was Helen Hayes.
Fred Clark
(as Dwight Babcock)
Dwight Babcock:
[Angrily] I am going to turn this kid into a decent, God-fearing Christian if I have to break every bone in his body!
Fred Clark
(as Dwight Babcock)
Dwight Babcock:
For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed nincompoopery.
Connie Gilchrist
(as Norah Muldoon)
Norah Muldoon:
[to the electrical contractor regarding Vera Charles] It's the "First Lady of the American Thee-ayter" out cold in the guestroom. Ms. Charles don' live here. She does her drinkin' here and her passin' out here.
Coral Browne
(as Vera Charles)
Vera Charles:
[to Mame regarding her loud, jingly bracelets] What the HELL have you got back there, reindeer?
Peggy Cass
(as Agnes Gooch)
Agnes Gooch:
[about her evening with Brian... that she can't remember] I lived. I gotta find out what to do now!
Rosalind Russell
(as Mame Dennis)
[Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand]
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
Rosalind Russell
(as Mame Dennis)
[Pouring Agnes a drink]
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!
Mame: What's wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!
Mame: What's wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
