What a Way to Go! (1964)
Shirley MacLaine: Louisa May Foster
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Quotes
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Louisa May Foster : You know the indifference I felt?
Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley : Hmmm?
Louisa May Foster : Well, it's beginning to change. It's beginning to blossom into complete contempt.
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Louisa May Foster : Edgar had left me approximately 2 million dollars in cash and securities. And as Thoreau probably never said, that's a lotta lettuce.
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Louisa May Foster : I'll have a - a Scotch on the rotch... uh, on the rocks.
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Louisa May Foster : Dr. Svenson, do you think I'm crazy too?
Dr. Victor Stephanson : The, the name is Stephanson, Victor Stephanson. And, uh, we never use that word around here.
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Louisa May Foster : [Having swum out to Edgar in his fishing boat] Imagine finding you here. I just happened to be swimming by.
Edgar Hopper : Well, you scared the fish away.
Louisa May Foster : You could pull me in.
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Louisa May Foster : What's the matter, darling?
Edgar Hopper : Oh, nothing. I, I think I'll go down to the store for a little while this afternoon.
Louisa May Foster : But you were there just 10 days ago.
Edgar Hopper : You know, it's the end of summer. People come from vacation. Somebody might want something.
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Louisa May Foster : Darling, I checked the hotels in Rome and I have the reservations for our vacation.
Edgar Hopper : I'm sorry, honey - that'll have to wait 'til next year.
Louisa May Foster : Next year?
Edgar Hopper : Yes, next year. In the meantime, get yourself a couple of art books and a box of spaghetti.
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Larry Flint : [Spread out on the front seat of a cab Louisa has just entered in the back] I ain't got all day, lady. Where do you wanna go?
Louisa May Foster : Oh, you speak English.
Larry Flint : All of us foreigners do. It's compulsory.
Louisa May Foster : You American?
Larry Flint : Naw. Naw, lady. I'm a Russian spy for the C.I.A.
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Larry Flint : Money corrupts. Art erupts.
Louisa May Foster : Oh, that's a beautiful saying.
Larry Flint : It's immortal. I just made it up.
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Louisa May Foster : What Larry Flint had left over in cash, plus the sale of his remaining pictures, brought me in the neighborhood of $4 million in American money. It was an amount even Picasso wouldn't be ashamed of.
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Nicky Cathcart : I do hope the two of you can come down to us for a shoot.
Louisa May Foster : Mmm. Love to. We always get a bang out of a shoot.
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Rod Anderson, Jr. : I'm reminding you to remind me to tell you that I love you.
Louisa May Foster : Thank you for reminding me. I'm reminding you that you said to remind me to tell me that you love me.
Rod Anderson, Jr. : Thank you for reminding me.
Louisa May Foster : Thank you.
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Louisa May Foster : Are you faced with ruin?
Rod Anderson, Jr. : I am three times as rich as I was the day we got married.
Louisa May Foster : Oh, no.
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Rod Anderson, Jr. : I'll go feed Melissa and you milk the chickens, huh?
Louisa May Foster : Can't it wait 'til tomorrow?
Rod Anderson, Jr. : That shows how much you know about farmin'. You don't milk her now, she'll be woo mooin' all night long.
[sic]
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Louisa May Foster : Rod had sold out everything so quickly that his fortune was pitifully reduced. It came to a mere $150 million.
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Louisa May Foster : Oh, I was left with another $30 million and I flew right down to Washington, and that brings us up to date.
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Edgar Hopper : [Gesturing from his simple cabin to the town] Louisa, you mean you'd take this instead of all that? But, Louisa, I've got nothing. I'll... I'll always have nothing. I'll always be nothing.
Louisa May Foster : Edgar, that's what I want - nothing. To quote me and not Thoreau, I love you.
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Louisa May Foster : Edgar, it's Christmas.
Edgar Hopper : Yes, and Christmas is business - big business.
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Louisa May Foster : Darling, must you make so much noise when you paint?
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Louisa May Foster : Well, a tycoon's work is never finished, is it? That's what you call yourself, isn't it? A tycoon?
Rod Anderson, Jr. : Absolutely! Absolutely! Every morning I get up and look at myself in the mirror, and I say, "Good morning, tycoon!"
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Louisa May Foster : Well, you haven't said anything for the last two husbands!