Ema "Emmy" Hesire quotes from Mannequin (1987)

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

There's got to be a better way. Please, gods, please, help me find it.

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

You've got good hands. I liked the way they felt when you were putting me together.

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

Tonight we're gonna do something special, something this store has never seen before!

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

Where do they hide all the musicians?

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

When you were making me, didn't you feel a certain inspiration? Almost like your hands were moved by force not of this world? You made this body so that I could come to life!

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

Tonight, we'll do something different and special. Something that this store has never seen before. I just wish you didn't look so worried.

Jonathan Switcher

That's easy for you to say. You're a mannequin, you'll always have work. Me, I'm gonna wind up in the nuthouse after this. I wonder if insanity is covered in the employee health plan?

Jonathan Switcher

Just when I think you're real, you vanish. What's with you? What's with me?

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

Didn't I tell you? You're the only one who can see me like this.

Jonathan Switcher

It's not exactly fair, is it?

Ema "Emmy" Hesire

Talk to them.

Emmy

Mother, I don't want to settle down. I want to do things, I want to invent things, I want to try things that nobody's ever tried before... I want to fly.
Emmy's Mother: [sarcastic] Sure and I want to smoke and tell your father to go to hell! Emmy, if I thought we women could any way change anything, don't you think I'd encourage you?

Jonathan

How do you know you're not missing something better 5,000 years from now?

Emmy

Nothing could ever be better than being here with you.

Jonathan

This is one guy who is never gonna leave your side.