The Wiz (1978)

Theresa Merritt: Aunt Em

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Quotes 

• Aunt Em : Girl, do you know that you're 24 years old, and...

  Aunt Em , Dorothy : You've never been south of 125th Street?

  Aunt Em : Well, you haven't!

• Aunt Em : Oh, here we go again. You get me so worked up that I'm beginning to sound like a Jewish mother.

• Dorothy : l can't see how going south of 125th Street ever made anybody's life better.

  Aunt Em : And you're never gonna know unless you try, are you?

• [first lines] 

  Aunt Em : Hello, there.