Emmeline Finch Quotes in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Emmeline Finch: Oh Russell, I feel sick.

J. Russell Finch: Now take it easy honey, these things happen ya know.

Mrs. Marcus: Now what kind of an attitude is that, "these things happen"? They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say "these things happen," and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

Lennie Pike: All right lady, are you gonna get out or am I gonna have to throw you out?

Emmeline Finch: Oh please Mr. Pike, don't get upset.

Mrs. Marcus: He's not gonna do anything! Drive on, ya big stupid idiot!

Emmeline Finch: I'm only thinking of Russell's condition.

Mrs. Marcus: You mean his financial condition, because that's the only condition that he has.

J. Russell Finch: Yeah but...

Mrs. Marcus: Emmeline, do you know why your husband had a nervous breakdown? It's because he has sunk $40,000, including $15,000 of my money into a company that makes seaweed for people to eat.

J. Russell Finch: Yeah but...

Mrs. Marcus: And not only does nobody like it, but it costs over $4.00 a can.

J. Russell Finch: Yeah but...

Mrs. Marcus: Yeah but WHAT?

J. Russell Finch: Well, most people like it and I like it, and I'm working hard trying to keep the cost down.

Mrs. Marcus: Yeah you were working hard trying to keep the cost down the day that you ran out of your office and stood in the street screaming.

Emmeline Finch: Mother!

Mrs. Marcus: Oh Emmeline, shut up!

[Russell starts to speak]

Mrs. Marcus: And you too!