Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

Elaine Stritch: Nick's Mother

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• Nick's Mother : I've got one foot on the banana peel and one foot in the grave. And you do this to me? You have got dinosaur balls, buster. I should have clopped them off when you were a kid.

• Nick's Mother : Did I tell you his grandfather tried to have sex with me?

  Angelo : Really?

  Nick's Mother : I'm telling you. Told me my husband was a boy. That he could do things to me that I couldn't imagine.

  Angelo : Sexually?

  Nick's Mother : Well, yeah, sure. He wasn't talking about going to Jersey.

• Angelo : Mrs Murder. Nice to see you. How are you?

  Nick's Mother : Every breath is a victory.

  Nick Murder : Hi ya, Mom.

  Nick's Mother : Don't you, "Hi, Mom" me. I told you. I told you! In the sixth grade, I told you, "Never tell a woman your business. You just do your thing and you keep it to yourself!"

• Nick's Mother : He was dancing with her. He was a good dancer. And the woman Mrs Thompson was her name. She had no bloomers on. I seen it when he twirled her.