Grey Gardens

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I think my days at Grey Gardens are limited.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
It's my mother's house and she owns it, she wanted the people she wanted in it, and she didn't want the people that I wanted in it.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
I'm gonna get naked in a minute, so you better watch out!

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I tried to get you; I called and called and called.

Albert Maysles:
Oh, yeah? How's everything?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I guess you went out. Then I called again. You were busy. Guess what's happened.

Albert Maysles:
What?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
What I... What I had felt was in the cards, you know, and I'm tellin' ya, I'm not gonna spend another ten years with this. You know, I spent ten years with the last.

Albert Maysles:
You mean Tom Logan.

David Maysles:
What is it now?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
The Marble Faun is moving in.

Albert Maysles:
Who is?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
The Marble Faun.

David Maysles:
Jerry.

Albert Maysles:
Oh!

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
He just gave us a washing machine. That cements the deal. I gotta get outta here! I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life washing clothes in that goddamn...

Albert Maysles:
I don't blame you!

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
If you can't get a man to propose to you, you might as well be dead.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
Horrors! Somebody's removing the books from my room! Where'd this little book come from?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
You know, I call Jerry "the Marble Faun."

Handyman:
Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
Yeah.

Handyman:
You have that book here, Edie?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I haven't been able to find it.

Handyman:
If you run across it, I'd like to read it.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
It's very deep; I don't know whether you... Well, I guess you're up to it. They used to have it on all the, uh... I think it was on the high school reading list..."The Marble Faun."

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
He might as well leave right now, 'cause he's never gonna get it. So that's it.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Get what? Sex with you?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
What he's after!

Edith Bouvier Beale:
He doesn't want any sex with you.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
That's all they're after!

Edith Bouvier Beale:
An old person like you?

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
That's all they're after! So why don't you tell him right now? You should tell him right now so I'm not bothered by him.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
No, I'm not ready; I have no makeup on... but things are getting better!

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Aren't you going to feel, uh, Whiskers, Edie? Come on, go feed and Whiskers. No, don't eat it; give it to Whiskers, please!

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Oh, look. That cat's going to the bathroom right behind my portrait.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
Ughh, how awful.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
No, I'm glad. I'm glad somebody's doing something that they want to do.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
You can't have your cake and eat it, too in life.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Oh yes I did. I did, I had my cake, loved it, masticated it, chewed it and had everything I wanted.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I can't stand being in this house. In the first place, it makes me terribly nervous. I'm scared to death of doors, locks, people roaming around in the background, under the trees, in the bushes, I'm absolutely terrified.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
She doesn't like the Catholic Church.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Oh what the hell, I worship the Catholic Church.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
He always compliments me on the way I do my corn.

Edith B. Beale Jr.:
I only care about three things: the Catholic Church, swimming and dancing, and I had to give them up.

Edith Bouvier Beale:
She had a proposal of marriage from Paul Gettys. Remember Paul, the richest man in the world?

Norman Vincent Peale:
"To get on top of things and stay there."

Edith Bouvier Beale:
Does that mean women, too?

Norman Vincent Peale:
He wasn't emotional! He didn't get upset! He wasn't nervous!

Edith Bouvier Beale:
He wasn't me!

*"there ain't nobody here except us chickens "