Lucy McFadden Quotes in The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Lucy McFadden: [With Elliot at the dinner table] You're terrific with words. You always pick the right ones.

Elliot Garfield: Words are the canvas of an actor. His lips are his brushes, and his tongue - the colors of the spectrum. And when he speaks, he paints portraits.

Lucy McFadden: [Impressed] Classy! He's very classy!

Lucy McFadden: Congratulations

Elliot Garfield: For What?

Lucy McFadden: I didn't know what else to say.

Lucy McFadden: [watching Elliot's performance as a gay Richard III] Looks like the guy at the beauty parlor.

Lucy McFadden: How long is he going to stay?

Paula McFadden: As long as he lets us.

Elliot Garfield: Lady Anne! Lady Anne! The black prince is dead! England is yours! You don't want England? How about Spain? Spain I can get you cheap.

Lucy McFadden: What are you doing in that thing?

Elliot Garfield: Come on, let's get going, will ya? This horse has got a meter on it.

Lucy McFadden: Where to?

Elliot Garfield: We're going home! To Tara! Come on! Cynthia Fine, right? I think you've got charisma, too.

Cynthia Fine: Lucy, did you tell him? I never said anything like that. I'm going to get you for that Lucy you big creep.

Elliot Garfield: You want to go to my opening tonight? I owe you a good time after the last one.

Lucy McFadden: I have homework.

Elliot Garfield: What are you sore about? Me and your Mom?

Lucy McFadden: It's none of my business why should I be sore?

Elliot Garfield: Yeah, well, since you and I are exchanging bedrooms tonight I kinda think it is. But I'm a little old fashioned. I'd like to have your approval.

Lucy McFadden: Me? I'm only ten years old. I'm not even old enough to vote yet.

Elliot Garfield: I like your style, kid, I really do. Oh, I'm sorry, I hear you don't like to be called kid.

Lucy McFadden: I'm a kid it fits.

Elliot Garfield: Do you like me?

Lucy McFadden: Ask Cynthia Fine she's crazy about you.

Elliot Garfield: Lucy, do you like me?

Lucy McFadden: You're wasting your money because I'm really not enjoying this ride.

Elliot Garfield: Lucy, I'm going to keep asking you until you answer me. Do you like me?

Lucy McFadden: Do you mind if I get off? I think I'm getting nauseous.

Elliot Garfield: Answer my question, Goddamn it. Lucy it makes no difference to me one way or the other because I'm moving in with your old lady but I want to hear it from your own lips. Now answer me, yes or no do you like me?

Lucy McFadden: No!... Yes.

Elliot Garfield: A really, really, really lot?

Lucy McFadden: Yes, yes, alright?

Elliot Garfield: Okay. But as much as you like me it's not 1/1000th as much as I'm crazy about you. You can cry all over yourself I don't care. I am certifiably nuts about you. You and your ditsy mom. So blow that into your handkerchief.

Paula McFadden: Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Lucy McFadden: What's the last tenth?

Paula McFadden: Shut up.

[the telephone rings]

Lucy McFadden: Is that the last tenth?

Lucy McFadden: [hears Elliot chanting] What's that?

Paula McFadden: Sounds like God.

Lucy McFadden: I smell strawberries burning.

Paula McFadden: That's incense.

Lucy McFadden: What's incense?

Paula McFadden: It is what I'm feeling right now.

Paula McFadden: Be tactful.

Lucy McFadden: What's that?

Paula McFadden: Lie!

Paula McFadden: [angrily] Good night.

Lucy McFadden: What, no kiss?

Paula McFadden: [punching her pillow] I'm angry. I don't want to lose it.

Lucy McFadden: You know what Cynthia Fine said?

Paula McFadden: Who is Cynthia Fine?

Lucy McFadden: The girl in my class with the braces and the big chest. Anyway, Elliot picked me up from school today, and Cynthia says he's got charisma. I looked it up, and he does.

Paula McFadden: All right, cut it out.

Lucy McFadden: Cut what out?

Paula McFadden: Stop trying to make something between us.

Lucy McFadden: Me? Cynthia Fine s...

Paula McFadden: Cynthia Fine, my behind. Stop pushing me.

Lucy McFadden: Who's pushing?

Paula McFadden: You are. Your fingerprints are all over my back. He's OK, all right? Once in a while, he even acts like a regular human being. But stop pushing me, because that man is not my type.

[Lucy mutters something under her breath]

Paula McFadden: I heard that. What did you say?

Lucy McFadden: If you heard, why are you asking?

Paula McFadden: [sternly] What did you say?

Lucy McFadden: I said, "your type never hangs around long enough to stay your type".

Paula McFadden: That is a rotten thing to say.

Lucy McFadden: [matter of factly] I know. I just felt like saying it.

Paula McFadden: Jesus. Sometimes I can be so goddamn furious with you.

[Paula squirts Lucy with a bottle of cream]

Lucy McFadden: [yelling] That was a stinking thing to do!

[after finding out the play has closed]

Elliot Garfield: That's O.K., Now I'm free to take that other job.

Lucy McFadden: What other job?

Elliot Garfield: I'm looking, I'm looking!

Paula McFadden: You have homework to do.

Lucy McFadden: We're moving in four days. Do I have to do homework?

Paula McFadden: Suppose between now and Friday they teach brain surgery. I wouldn't want you to miss it.

Lucy McFadden: [in an exasperated tone] Mother! We had it last week. Science.

Paula McFadden: Are you serious?

Lucy McFadden: Dumb! You know you're dumb.

Paula McFadden: [laughing] Well, I thought maybe in frog dissection. What do I know?

[when Lucy is sick]

Lucy McFadden: How's the play going?

Elliot Garfield: Shh. One sick person at a time.