Agnes Gooch Quotes in Auntie Mame (1958)

Mame Dennis: Oh, Agnes, where is your spine? Here you've been taking my dictation for weeks and you don't get the message of my book. Live, that's the message!

Agnes Gooch: Live?

Mame Dennis: Yes! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

[Pouring Agnes a drink]

Mame Dennis: This will calm you down.

Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!

Mame Dennis: What's wrong with that?

Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?

Mame Dennis: He'll love it! Drink!

Agnes Gooch: [about her evening with Brian... that she can't remember] I lived. I gotta find out what to do now!

Mame Dennis: [pointing to Agnes] And what is this?

Agnes Gooch: I'm your sponge!

[repeated line; whenever someone asks what her name is]

Agnes Gooch: [deadpanned] Gooch.