Glynnis Payne Quotes in What a Girl Wants (2003)

Glynnis Payne: Now Daphne, we don't want to make a scene now, do we?

Libby Reynolds: Take your hand off my daughter or you won't get a scene, you'll get a Broadway Musical!

Glynnis Payne: Oh, put a cork in it, Clarissa.

Clarissa: Maybe someone should've put a cork in it seventeen years ago.

Glynnis Payne: Darling, darling, all I'm saying is before we let this hypothetical daughter blow your political career out of the water, we might at least consider doing some checking up on her.

Henry Dashwood: Now, checking up for what?

Glynnis Payne: I don't know... criminal record, blood type, triple sixes on her skull.

Henry Dashwood: Glynnis, she has a birth certificate, she has my photograph and she has my eyes.

Glynnis Payne: [Takes a bite of her eggs] These eggs are positively glacial. When I run this house, senile servants will be the first thing to go.

Clarissa: You'd have to get around the old bat somehow. She'd never allow it.

Jocelyn Dashwood: [Enters the room] Anyone seen my pruning shears? The *old bat* seems to have forgotten where she put them.

Glynnis Payne: Until then we have to keep up appearances. Look what happened to Olivia Nixon when she went to China last summer.

Clarissa: Who's Olivia Nixon?

Glynnis Payne: Exactly.

Henry Dashwood: Sorry, did you just say you've known about this your whole life?

Daphne Reynolds: Yeah?

Jocelyn Dashwood: Good. Well, now we've got that settled... How about some tea and a nice piece of fruitcake?

Henry Dashwood: But your mother didn't feel I deserved the same consideration?

Jocelyn Dashwood: [Quietly] No to the fruitcake, then.

Henry Dashwood: [shouts] How could she keep something like this from me?

Glynnis Payne: Excuse me, but what happened to the mistake theory we were operating on a moment ago?

Daphne Reynolds: [Daphne turns to leave]

Jocelyn Dashwood: No, wait a minute, Ducky!

Glynnis Payne: Darling, we have to get Lubby here an escort.

Daphne Reynolds: It's Libby, and why doesn't he just ask her himself?

Clarissa: [Sees Daphne fall over the wall] Did you see that?

Glynnis Payne: What?

Clarissa: An impossibly large bird falling off that wall.

Glynnis Payne: Are you hallucinating?

[Waves her hand in front of her face]

Glynnis Payne: I know my daddy was naughty, but what about me?