Dianne Wiest movie quotes

17 quotes from 3 movies

Edward Scissorhands (1990) as Peg

View Quote Peg: The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.

View Quote Peg: You know- damn those TV programs!
Bill: Damn them all to hell.

View Quote Peg: What happened to you? Where are your parents? Your mother? Um...father?
Edward: He didn't wake up.

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Parenthood (1989) as Helen

View Quote No, no, no, no. I'm too young to be a grandmother. Grandmothers are old. They bake, and they sew, and they tell you stories about the Depression. I was at Woodstock, for Christ's sake! I peed in a field! I hung on to The Who's helicopter as it flew away!

View Quote I give them six months. Three, if she cooks.

View Quote Open this door! Goddamnit to hell! I was just like a little respect! Not alot, just a little! Do you know why I'm having sex with machinery? Because your father went to have a party and I stayed to raise two kids, and I HAVE NO LIFE!!!!!!!!

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Synecdoche, New York (2008) as Millicent Weems

View Quote Caden Cotard is a man already dead, living in a half-world between stasis and antistasis. Time is concentrated and chronology confused for him. Up until recently he has strived valiantly to make sense of his situation, but now he has turned to stone.

View Quote [voice over] Now it is waiting and nobody cares. And when your wait is over this room will still exist and it will continue to hold shoes and dress and boxes and maybe someday another waiting person. And maybe not. The room doesn't care either.

View Quote Caden Cotard: I know what to do with this play now. I have an idea. I think...
Millicent Weems: [voice over] Die.

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