Memorable Quotes from Susan Anspach
4 quotesConfusion in the Supermarket Aisle
Nancy
Don't listen to him!
Bogart
Don't listen to her.
Allan
Fellas, we're in a supermarket.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Romantic Expectations and Self-Perception
Nancy
Allan, what do you expect? Didn't I always say you were not the romantic type?
[as a fantasy appearance]
Allan
Whatsa matter with me, Nancy?
Nancy
You're a dreamer. You're awkward. You're clumsy. They can see how desperate you are. You know this. You said it yourself.
Allan
Look, don't go by that girl tonight. She was nothing. I was toying with her.
Nancy
Oh, face it, Allan. You may be very sweet, but you're not sexy.
Allan
Oh, don't be so sure. You never said that when we were married.
Nancy
I was thinking it.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Reflections on Self-Worth and Acceptance
Palm Apodaca
People. Animals are not like that. They're always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm... pigeons? Well, he's always picking on himself and his friends. They're always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys too. Except they do something out in the open that I don't go for.
Catherine Van Oost
You're a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something - how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?
Betty
When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, "You cute little thing!" and you get dimples there. And if He doesn't like you, He goes, "Go away." So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, "Now I lay me down to sleep..." My mother says, "What are you covering up your chin for?" And I said, "Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He'll listen to me.
[grabs her cheeks with both her hands; presses one finger on her chin; holds one hand over her chin]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Legal Communication Breakdown
Nancy
My lawyer will call your lawyer.
Allan
I don't have a lawyer. Have him call my doctor.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.