Ellie Banks Quotes in Father of the Bride (1950)

Ben Banks: Can't be June. I've got my final. Why not May?

Ellie Banks: May's too early.

Tommy Banks: July's out. I'm going to camp.

Kay Banks: This isn't a kids party. It's my wedding and my friends.

Stanley T. Banks: Ellie, what did you mean by?

Kay Banks: No one has to raise a finger. When the time comes, I'll do everything. And I mean everything.

Ellie Banks: I can imagine that.

Ben Banks: I'm not going.

Kay Banks: Listen! I don't care if you come or not!

Ellie Banks: Oh, Stanley. I don't know how to explain. A wedding. A church wedding. Well it's, it's what every girl dreams of. A bridal dress, the orange blossoms, the music. It's something lovely to remember all the rest of her life. And something for us to remember too.

Ellie Banks: Stanley! You don't have to shout! Nobody's deaf! It's mortifying with

[indicates Delilah in the kitchen]

Ellie Banks: in there!

Stanley Banks: Now look Ellie, I know how anxious you've been to get your hooks into that baby, but the answer is NO. I've been through all that you know, the two o'clock feedings, the colic and the measles & all the rest of it & I'm not going through all of it again, especially with somebody else's baby

Ellie Banks: [plaintively] It wouldn't be like that, Stanley, it'll be fun to have a baby

Stanley Banks: You can go over and see the baby at their apartment when they get it all washed & ironed, but it's not coming here and THAT'S FINAL!