Claudia Zimmer Quotes in The Four Seasons (1981)

Danny: [talking about Ginny] I think you should apologize to her.

Claudia Zimmer: For what? I got excited, I spoke my mind, I said I was sorry and it's over and done with.

Danny: Well, I don't understand how you can hurt someone as guileless and vulnerable as Ginny.

Claudia Zimmer: She sure took on a lot of mystical qualities once you saw her swimming naked.

Danny: How can you say that?

Claudia Zimmer: I just say what I think.

Danny: Well, maybe that's the problem! Why do you always say what you think? I mean, do you think your thoughts should just fall down from your brain onto your tongue like a gumball machine?

Claudia Zimmer: Danny, I'm not going to start watching what I think or what I feel! I'm Italian!

Danny: [angry] I know you're Italian! I don't want to hear anymore how you're Italian!

[opens window and sticks his head out]

Danny: Hey, out there! This woman is Italian!

[faces back to Claudia]

Danny: You no longer have to announce your ethnic origin in this state. Everyone in Connecticut knows you're Italian! And when we cross the border, I'll take out an ad in the New York Times.

Danny: [the friends are making lunch in cramped quarters on the boat] I haven't used salt or mucus products for three years and I feel just great.

Ginny: Who eats mucus?

Claudia Zimmer: [disgusted] He means cheese and milk. Danny, say what you mean, would you please? You're talking to humans here!

Jack: Why do you think we love this boat so much?

Kate Burroughs: I don't know.

Jack: You know why?

Kate Burroughs: I knew it. He only asked us so that he could tell us his theory. Go ahead, sweetheart. Tell us why we love this boat so much.

Jack: Because it represents our primeval desire to control water. See? Now, think about it. All our beginnings are wet. Sloshing around in the womb. Baptism. The first life that came out of the warm soup of the ocean. You know?

Danny: [no interest] Mhmmm...

Kate Burroughs: Jack loves ideas. And he can do so much with them. I have seen him take one idea at a dinner party and bring the entire conversation to a complete halt.

Claudia Zimmer: [Nick comes out with clam dish] I love these! I have this insatiable desire to have dominance over the clams.

Jack: It so happens that Venus rose from the sea on a clam shell. Sexuality was born in wetness.

Claudia Zimmer: [laughing] It's easier that way!

Jack: Jeez.

Danny: I love that woman.

Claudia Zimmer: Danny, how come you're allowed to have all these psychosomatic illnesses but when I throw up into my tote bag at two in the morning, it's just my imagination?

Claudia Zimmer: [after Jack has exploded and thrown the the moose head into the fireplace] I wonder what other people do on their vacations?

Ginny: [about Anne] You know, I don't want to talk her down, but she is unreliable. I mean Nick has made three appointments to meet her down at his lawyer's office and she's never shown up. She hasn't even called.

Claudia Zimmer: Now wait a minute. No offense, Ginny, but twenty-one years ago Nick said he would be there on the other side of the bed every morning and for the last six months he hasn't kept his appointment either!

Jack: [flustered] Okay, look. Alright, alright. Let's calm down. It's not all that bad. It's just a little embarassing.

Nick: I don't see what the big problem is. We're all adults. We'll just say hello and uh...

Danny: Have a nervous breakdown.

Claudia Zimmer: [approaching Ginny] Ginny, I'm sorry. There is a lot of strain in the situation and I get passionate sometimes.

Ginny: [crying and sniffling] That's okay. I know you're just trying to be fair to everybody.

[Ginny walks away]

Claudia Zimmer: [to Nick] You're the one I wanted to make cry.

[Nick goes after Ginny]

Danny: [to Claudia] Well, you had to open up your mouth again.

Claudia Zimmer: Danny, it's over and done with, please.

Danny: Let's have a nice quiet time... a nice vacation.

Claudia Zimmer: Is he still thoughtful?

Kate Burroughs: [hugging Jack] Yes, Jack is thoughtful.

Claudia Zimmer: Does he observe good bathroom etiquette?

Kate Burroughs: Huh?

Claudia Zimmer: Does he leave the seat up or does he put it down?

Danny: Wait a minute! I always put the seat down!

Claudia Zimmer: Yeah, after I yelled at you to do it!

Danny: Why do you always have to do that? Why couldn't you have just kept quiet?

Claudia Zimmer: Danny, I say what I feel. I'm Italian!

Danny: [outraged] I know you're Italian! I know you're Italian!

[opens the window and shouts]

Danny: This woman is Italian!

[faces away from window]

Danny: You no longer have to announce your ethnic origin in this state. Everyone in Connecticut knows that you're Italian!