Madeline Ashton Quotes in Death Becomes Her (1992)

Madeline Ashton: Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

Madeline Ashton: Bottoms up!

[Madeline drinks the potion]

Lisle Von Rhoman: Now, a warning.

Madeline Ashton: NOW a warning?

[Helen has a gaping hole in her abdomen]

Madeline Ashton: You're a fraud, Helen! You're a walking lie and I can see right... THROUGH YOU!

[watch through the hole while laughing]

Madeline Ashton: Ernest... my ass! I can see MY ASS!

Emergency Room Doctor: I tell you what, kids, it's, uh, odd thing here. Your wrist, uh, far as I can tell, is, uh, fractured in three places. Uh, and you've shattered, uh, two vertebrae, though I can't be certain without an X-ray... The bone protrusion through the skin - that's not a good sign. You're body temperature is below 80, and your, your, your heart's stopped beating.

Ernest Menville: What the hell does that mean?

Emergency Room Doctor: Exactly! What... what... I'm going to get a second opinion.

[the doctor leaves in a hurry]

Madeline Ashton: Well, it could be worse.

Madeline Ashton: Oh, for Christ's sake, at least lie quickly!

Dakota: I'm trying to!

Anna: How about a nice colagen buff?

Madeline Ashton: "A colagen buff"? You might as well ask me to wash with soap and water!

Anna: I could do your make-up myself...

Madeline Ashton: Make-up is POINTLESS! It does nothing anymore! Are you even listening to me? Do you even care? You stand there with your 22-year- old skin and your tits like ROCKS and laugh at me...

[sobs]

Ernest Menville: She's dead!

Madeline Ashton: She is? Oh. These are the moments that make life worth living.

[after seeing her transformation]

Madeline Ashton: I'm a girl!

Lisle Von Rhoman: You're scared as Hell... of yourself. Of the body you once knew.

Madeline Ashton: I beg your pardon?

Lisle Von Rhoman: I am the one who understands. I am the one who knows your secret.

[Lisle demonstrates the potion]

Madeline Ashton: Check ok?

Lisle Von Rhuman: Fine.

Lisle Von Rhoman: How old would you guess I am? C'mon, don't try to flatter me.

Madeline Ashton: Thirty-eight?

[Lisle Von Rhoman glares at her]

Madeline Ashton: TWENTY-eight... no, twenty-three...

Madeline Ashton: [reading the title of Helen's new book] "Forever Young?"...

Rose: I like that title.

Madeline Ashton: [Cackling] Ah, forever young... and eternally fat...

Madeline Ashton: Ernest! You pushed me down the stairs.

Madeline Ashton: [after she discovers Dakota has a girl over] Who is the little piece of meat?

[upon discovering her neck has twisted a complete 180 degrees]

Madeline Ashton: Ernest... my ass! I can *see*... my ASS!

Ernest Menville: And there's something really wrong with your neck too.

[Rose is serving breakfast in bed to Madeline Ashton]

Rose: Good morning, madam. You look absolutely marvelous.

Madeline Ashton: Hey, wait a minute. Aren't you forgetting something?

Rose: Well, it's only Thursday - you told me just to say it...

Madeline Ashton: Well, never mind that. I think I need you to say it every morning.

Rose: Very well. "Oh, madam! You look younger every day!"

Madeline Ashton: Thank you, Rose. Thank you very much.

Madeline Ashton: Drink it!

Helen: You have to!

Madeline Ashton: We need you!

[Ernest lets go]

Lisle Von Rhuman: [Lisle is about to give Madeline a potion that grants eternal youth and beauty] But you must make me a promise. The secret that we share must never become public. You may continue your career for ten years. Ten years of perfect, unchanged beauty. But at the end of that time, before people start to become suspicious, you have to disappear from public view forever. You can retire, you can stage your own phony death, or... as one of my clients simply said, I want to be alone.

Madeline Ashton: No. She...

Lisle Von Rhuman: [Lisle nods]

Madeline Ashton: Who cares how I played? I won!

Ernest Menville: I'll just be upstairs...

Helen: That's 'cause you could raise your legs higher than anyone.

Madeline Ashton: You know what this is? This is simply a question of, uh, maintenance! Yeah, this is upkeep. We just have to be very careful with ourselves. We have to take care of each other. I'll paint your ass; you paint mine.

[last lines]

Madeline Ashton: Has that ever worked? When you ask me where I last saw something?

Helen: Yes.

Madeline Ashton: When?

Helen: When you lost your index finger.

Madeline Ashton: I didn't lose it, it broke off.

Helen: That's because you cracked your knuckles all the time...

[slipping on the can of spray paint they both crash down the steps]

Helen: Help me!

Madeline Ashton: [now in pieces] Do you remember where you parked the car?

[Madeline Ashton is requesting another plasma separation]

Madeline Ashton: Are you listening to me? Do you even care? You just stand there with your 22-year-old skin and your tits like rocks and laugh, and...

[sobs]