Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt Quotes in Overboard (1987)

Grant Stayton: [to Annie] I suppose we're on our way back to the jungles of Oregon?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I want to go back, Grant.

Grant Stayton: To him.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Yes. I'm sorry.

Grant Stayton: You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot!

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: These gnats keep landing on my wet nail polish. I guess I'm supposed to walk around with their little corpses stuck to my fingers, is that it?... It's easy for you to say. You don't have to sit out here in the brine with your perm frizzing to oblivion. I look like a bushman.

Andrew: [who's been painting her toenails] ... I've finished, madam. Would you like me to put your jewelry back on you?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: No, I'm still tacky.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I'm not a bitch. ANDREW. Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?

[to Dr. Korman]

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Grant's having another nervous breakdown, he thinks he's God. Keep him busy.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [aboard her yacht, Joanna is on the phone] ... I KNOW it will cost me, but it's the CUTEST little painting. I simply MUST have it. You'll do the bidding for me at the auction? $1,700,000.

[gunshots]

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Grant, I'm on the phone!

Grant Stayton: I can't hear you, Tea Rose! I'm shooting skeet!

[goes back to firing]

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [Grant has just arrived at the hospital; she doesn't know he's right outside, behind a one-way mirror] ... You mean to tell me that I have no medical recourse...?

Grant Stayton: Can she see us?

Cop at Hospital: Not unless she's got x-ray vision or something.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: ...Well, what DO you know? Extend your brain a teensy little bit, if possible.

Doctor at Hospital: You seem to be suffering from a temporary amnesia...

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: How TEMPORARY is it?

Doctor at Hospital: We don't know. Other than that, you seem to be in excellent physical shape.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Listen to me, medical people. As of now, I have a life history of a DIRTY garbage scow and a breakfast of EXTREMELY RUNNY eggs-over-easy. Now I REFUSE to be INCARCERATED in this semiprivate room -

[turns to the only other patient in the room]

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: You SNORE! - while there are no efforts being made by anyone to try and locate...!

Cop at Hospital: [to Grant, still outside Joanna's room] ... Is that your wife, sir?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: ...I DEMAND you do something! Do you hear me...?

Grant Stayton: [to the Cop] ... No, I never saw her before in my life.

[He leaves; later, back on Joanna's yacht "Immaculata"]

Grant Stayton: ... Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!

Doctor at Hospital: Now, Miss X... we have a safer, more comfortable, private room... where you'll be a lot more comfortable, and we'll all be a lot safer.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Well, I'm glad you've finally come to your senses. I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.

Grant Stayton: Can she see us?

Cop at Hospital: Not unless she's Superwoman

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [on the other side of the one way window] Listen to me, medical people!. As of now, I have a light history of a dirty garbage scow and a breakfast of extremely runny eggs over easy. I refuse, REFUSE

[throws an object]

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: to be incercerated in this semi-private room while there are no efforts being made.

Cop at Hospital: Is that her?

Grant Stayton: No, I've never seen her before in my life!

Edith Mintz: [from her NYC penthouse] ... Joanna, why do you care what some carpenter from Elk Snout thinks of you?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I'm surely just premenstrual.

Edith Mintz: Then you must go right back to bed for at least two days...

[to her maid, who's been feeding Edith's small dog]

Edith Mintz: ...Inga! You don't shove the food down Shitake's throat. You place it on her tongue. Don't they have dogs in Sweden?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore.

Grant Stayton: What's love got to do with marriage?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I just... ate a bug!

Grant Stayton: [on Joanna's yacht, the "Immaculata"] ... Joanna, I want you tonight - How can you have your period EVERY WEEK?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: [they're shown in bed together; Grant is glued to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"] ... Must you watch that THING incessantly?

Grant Stayton: Yes, I must. It has a tawdry, escapist quality that sooths my nerves.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: What YOU have to escape from, I can't possibly imagine... Grant, I left my wedding ring on the deck.

Grant Stayton: Well, what can I do?

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: Go and get it.

Grant Stayton: It's after midnight.

Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt: I don't care. I want it now.

Grant Stayton: Let me just see who's in the Top Ten Luxury Yachts. This is the Big League of the Seven Seas, the one purchase that separates mere millionaires from MULTI-millionaires.

[Disgusted, Joanna goes to get it herself]