Jim Burns Quotes in Pieces of April (2003)

Jim Burns: I can think of one memory. She was wearing a pink nightgown...

Timmy Burns: That was ME!

[Beth has just finished singing]

Jim Burns: Bravo! Encore, encore!

Beth Burns: Any requests?

Joy Burns: That you stop.

Jim Burns: Just remember everybody. April is cooking.

Joy Burns: We'll need an extra dozen glazed.

Joy Burns: I keep waiting for a good time to tell you, but there's really no good time. I need everyone to listen.

[pause]

Joy Burns: I don't know how to say this.

[pause]

Joy Burns: We need to discuss how each of you, Oh God...

Jim Burns: It's OK, sweetie.

[everyone assumes that Joy is trying to discuss her imminent death from cancer]

Joy Burns: How each of you is going to handle

[pause]

Joy Burns: discarding food without letting our hostess know.

[starts laughing]

Joy Burns: The thing about Smack Daddy is...

Grandma Dottie: Who?

Joy Burns: Smack Daddy.

Jim Burns: Have I ever heard of Smack Daddy?

Timmy Burns: He's a black singer, dad, you wouldn't know him.

Jim Burns: Oh, no! I never head of, uh, James Brown, or Barry White, or Puffy the Dog...