Tootie Smith [learning that the family must move to New York]
It'll take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls in the cemetery.
Played by Margaret O'Brien 
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) · 43 quotes
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) · 43 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944): in 11 of its 43 quotes
A line from Tootie Smith [singing]I was drunk last night, dear Mother;
I was drunk the night before.
But if you forgive me Mother,
I'll never get drunk anymore.
More lines from Tootie Smith
5 quotes Tootie Smith Tootie Smith I'd rather be poor if we could only stay here. I'd rather go with the orphalins at the orphalins home.
Tootie Smith [to Esther]
Did he [Santa Claus] come yet? I've been waiting such a long time. And I haven't seen a thing. How will he know how to find us next year? He's so used to coming here.
Tootie Smith [smashing her snowmen]
Nobody's going to have them. Not everybody's going to New York. I'd rather kill them if we can't take them with us.
Tootie Smith Poor Margaretta!
Scenes with Tootie Smith
5 scenes Tootie [about her doll]
I expect she won't live through the night. She has four fatal diseases.
Mr. Neely And it only takes one.
Tootie But she's gonna have a beautiful funeral in a cigar box my Papa gave me, all wrapped in silver paper.
Mr. Neely That's the way to go if you have to go.
Tootie Oh, she has to go.
Mr. Neely [about St. Louis]
It's a grand old town.
Tootie It isn't a town, Mr. Neely. It's a city. It's the only city that has a world's fair. My favorite. Wasn't I lucky to be born in my favorite city?
Tootie [after tossing flour in Mr. Braukoff's face]
I killed him.
Agnes She killed him all alone. Hey, wait a minute. Listen, listen. Quiet. Quiet. Tootie killed the Braukoffs single-handed. She's the bravest of them all!
Another child
Yeah, Tootie's the most horrible!
Tootie I'm the most horrible. I'm the most horrible.
Tootie Here comes the invalid. I have to have two kinds of ice cream. I'm recuperating.
If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about.
[about the Palace of Electricity at the World's Fair]
Oh, isn't it breathtaking, John! I never dreamed anything could be so beautiful.
There's never been anything like it in the whole world.
We don't have to come here on a train or stay in a hotel. It's right in our own home town.
Tootie Grandpa? They'll never tear it down, will they?
Grandpa Well, they'd better not.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live. Right here in St. Louis.
