Memorable Quotes from Carol Burnett
11 quotesConcerns About Annie's Behavior
Grace
What about this child?
Miss Hannigan
Annie?... Oh, you don't want Annie.
Grace
Why not?
Miss Hannigan
Because... Because she's a drunk!
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Miss Hannigan's Perspective on Wealth and Jealousy
Miss Hannigan
Some women are drippin with diamonds / Some women are drippin with pearls / Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I'm drippin with / Little girls!
[singing]
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Excluding Annie from Adoption Considerations
Miss Hannigan
You can have any orphan in the whole orphanage... except Annie.
Grace
Well, why?
Miss Hannigan
Because she's got it comin to her; and I *don't* mean a week in the lap of luxury'!
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Miss Hannigan Enforces Strict Cleaning Rules
Miss Hannigan
What are you just standing around here for? You're supposed to clean the bathroom and the kitchen before lunch, my little pig droppings, and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today...
Orphans
Yay!
Miss Hannigan
We're having *cold* mush!
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Questioning the Presence of Happiness
Miss Hannigan
Do I hear happiness in here?
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Annie's Absence Causes Confusion Among Characters
Miss Hannigan
Where's Annie?
Molly
She had to go bathroom.
Miss Hannigan
She had to go bathroom!
[mockingly]
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Defending the Orphan Against Harm
Miss Hannigan
She may be a mean, rotten little orphan, but I'm not gonna let you kill her!
[to Rooster about Annie]
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A Moment of Affection and Rejection
Orphans
We love you, Miss Hannigan.
Miss Hannigan
Shut up!
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Discussion About Annie's Future
Warbucks
Miss Hannigan, I presume?
Miss Hannigan
Yes?
Warbucks
I wanna talk to you about Annie.
Miss Hannigan
You wanna return her and forget her? Or trade up?
Warbucks
I wanna adopt her.
Miss Hannigan
Would you excuse me for a moment? Aaarggghh!
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Evening Activities and Accusations in Shanties
Warbucks
You spend your evenings in the shanties.
Miss Hannigan
You had me followed.
Mr. Warbucks
Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin.
Miss Hannigan
Bronchitism.
Warbucks
And here you're dancing in your scanties,
Miss Hannigan
Great gams.
Warbucks
With some old geezer called Little Caeser,
Miss Hannigan
He's an uncle.
Warbucks
You lock the orphans in the closet.
Miss Hannigan
They love it!
Warbucks
You hock their Christmas souvenirs.
Miss Hannigan
Drink?
Warbucks
You steal the funds you should deposit.
Miss Hannigan
It's fresh.
Warbucks
You make the grovel while you buy laveleers.
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Miss Hannigan's Frustration with Little Girls
Miss Hannigan
Little girls, little girls, everywhere I turn I can see them.
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