Amanda Lemmon Quotes in It Takes Two (1995)

Diane Barrows: Besides, you don't want to be an orphan forever.

Amanda Lemmon: So adopt me, why don't you!

Diane Barrows: They won't let me adopt you on my salary; besides, you deserve a mother *and* a father.

Amanda Lemmon: So, get a husband.

Diane Barrows: It's not like buying a car, you know.

Amanda Lemmon: I know. It's got to be that can't-eat, can't-sleep, reach-for-the-stars, over-the-fence, World Series kind of stuff, right?

Diane Barrows: Hey, a girl's got to have her standards.

Amanda Lemmon: All this money and these people eat slugs?

Frankie: Whoa! Check it out! Buckingham Palace!

Amanda Lemmon: [in a know-it-all tone] That's in London, brainless. It's the Calloway House.

Kid 2: Nobody's lived there for years. It's haunted.

Amanda Lemmon: It's not, either!

Kid 3: Ask anyone. Every full moon, Old Lady Calloway's ghost crosses the lake and eats one of the campers.

Amanda Lemmon: Yeah, right, and Santa Claus lives with the tooth fairy in Queens.

Amanda Lemmon: This orphan stuff is like growing up in the dog-pound. Everybody wants a puppy.

Alyssa Calloway: How was the party?

Amanda Lemmon: Well, the good news is, Clarice is gone.

Alyssa Calloway: You did it!

Amanda Lemmon: The bad news is, she'll be back in a week.

Alyssa Calloway: Oh, you didn't.

Vincenzo: My god - you're *not* Alyssa!

Amanda Lemmon: Nope. Name's Amanda, put 'er there!

[shakes Vincenzo's hand]

Vincenzo: Identical strangers? Holy mackerel, that's amazing!

Amanda Lemmon: Yeah, and it's weird, too!

Diane Barrows: Told ya. Third time's a charm...

Roger Callaway: Wait. All of this? This was *your* doing?

[Amanda and Alyssa smile]

Roger Callaway: Oh, it *was*, was it?

Roger Callaway: Well, girls, what do you have to say for yourselves?

Alyssa Calloway, Amanda Lemmon: So kiss already!

Clarice Kensington: If you embarrass me in front of me in front of all these people, I'll make sure you never play anything, ever, again. Have I made myself clear?

Amanda Lemmon: [as Alyssa] Clear as glass.

[Drops her chewed escargot in Clarice's champagne glass]

Amanda Lemmon: In fact, I can see right through you.

Diane Barrows: You're not a reject. It's just that, most people want to adopt...

Amanda Lemmon: Babies. I know.

Amanda Lemmon: [as Alyssa] I'm just so terribly relieved that you're not... pissed.

Vincenzo: Pissed, miss?