Other Titles • Auntie Mame • Die Tolle Tante (1958)
Quotes from Auntie Mame (1958)
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Auntie Mame: Oh, Agnes! Here you've been taking my dictations for weeks and you haven't gotten the message of my book: live! Agnes Gooch: Live? Auntie Mame: Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
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[Pouring Agnes a drink] Mame: This will calm you down. Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person! Mame: What's wrong with that? Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper? Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
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Mame Dennis: Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don't understand. Patrick Dennis: Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers?
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[Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand] Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual... Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind. [takes the list] Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
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Auntie Mame: Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast - black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera. Patrick Dennis: Is she in the guest room again? Auntie Mame: Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel.
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Auntie Mame: Hurry my tray, darling. Your auntie needs fuel.
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Mrs. Burnside: [talking to her relatives] Good morning to you all! Vultures! Sally Cato: Now Mrs. Burnside, I hope you don't think of me as a vulture! Mrs. Burnside: Oh, no, Sally Cato! You're not a vulture, you're just a dead pidgeon!
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Dwight Babcock: For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed nincompoopery.
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Emory: Hot damn! My sister's gonna bust a gut!
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Mame Dennis: That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your father.
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Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame? Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh. Patrick Dennis: She sounded English. Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.
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Auntie Mame: Oh, you know I really am fascinated by aviation. I never knew they did it all with rubber bands.
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Auntie Mame: Please dear, your Auntie Mame is hung.
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Vera Charles: If you kept your hair natural like I do... Auntie Mame: If I kept my hair natural like yours, I'd be bald.
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Auntie Mame: [Mame has just gotten fired from Macy's] Don't forget the skates for the little nippers. Get 'em at Gimble's!
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