The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Quinn Cummings: Lucy McFadden

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• 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.

  Elliot Garfield : 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.

• 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 okay, 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 McFadden : [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 McFadden : [squirts Lucy with a bottle of cream] 

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

• 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 : [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!

• 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.

• [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?

• 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.

• [when Lucy is sick] 

  Lucy McFadden : How's the play going?

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

• 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?

• Elliot Garfield : [checking on Lucy, who is sick from eating too much ice cream]  How's it feelin', Luce?

  Lucy McFadden : [groaning]  Did you see The Exorcist?

  Elliot Garfield : [chuckles]  Yeah.

  Lucy McFadden : Then you better get out of the room.

• Lucy McFadden : Does this mean we're not going to California?

  Paula McFadden : [sobbing]  Yeah!

  Lucy McFadden : [Paula runs into the next room and collapses onto the bed, still weeping]  That means I have to do my homework, right?

• Lucy McFadden : [reading Tony's letter]  "I told you when we first moved in here that it was never going to be permanent. Christ, I'm not even divorced from Patty yet." Who's Patty?

  Paula McFadden : Um, I told you about her.

  Lucy McFadden : No, you didn't.

  Paula McFadden : Well, I though you'd be upset if you knew you were living with a married man.

  Lucy McFadden : I wasn't living with him. You were. I was in the next room.

• Lucy McFadden : [reading Tony's letter]  "It's six months' shooting in Spain and Italy. It's a hell of a part, Paula, and I want it. I broke my ass"...

  Paula McFadden : Ah! Give me that!

  Lucy McFadden : Ass. I've heard the word before.

• Lucy McFadden : [reading Tony's letter]  "You'll be all right. You can always go back to dancing."

  Paula McFadden : Dancing? I'm 33! I can hardly walk anymore.