Edith Bouvier Beale credited as playing...
Self
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: The cat's going to the bathroom right right in back of my portrait.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: God, isn't that awful?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: No, I'm glad he is. I'm glad somebody's doing something he wanted to do.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Aren't you going to feed, uh, Whiskers, Edie? Come on, go feed Whiskers. No, don't eat it; give it to Whiskers, please!
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: He might as well leave right now, 'cause he's *never* gonna get it. So that's it.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Get what? Sex with you?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: What he's after!
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: He doesn't want any sex with you.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: That's all they're after!
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: An old person like you?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: 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 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: She had a proposal of marriage from Paul Getty. Remember Paul, the richest man in the world?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: [annoyed by her daughter's singing] Where in the hell did you come from?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Mother, you don't have enough clothes on.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Well, I'm going to get naked in just a minute, so you better watch out.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: That's what I'm afraid of.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Yeah, for what, now why? I haven't got any warts on me.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: But the movie, the movie!
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: I haven't got any warts on me!
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: That isn't the point, mother darling.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: It is a beautiful ocean today, isn't it? What would you say that is, sort of sapphire? I've never seen anything like that ocean!
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: You can't have your cake and eat it, too in life.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Oh, yes, I did. I did, I had my cake, loved it, masticated it, chewed it and had everything I wanted.
- Norman Vincent Peale: To get on top of things and stay there.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Does that mean women, too?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: [offering food to David and Al Maysles] Will you eat some liver pate, you kiddies?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: It's not awfully good.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: If you put lemon with it, it's all right.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: I may die with this diet!
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: She doesn't like the Catholic Church.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Oh, go on, what the hell, I worship the Catholic Church!
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: I like freedom.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Well, you can't get it, darling. You're being supported. You can't get any freedom when you're being supported.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: You can't?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: No. You can't get it.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: I think you're not free when you're not being supported... .It's awful both ways.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: You didn't *feel* then the way you do now. Everybody thinks and feels differently as the years go by, don't they.
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Ponder - both? Or, pondering each? Pondering one, I took the other. And that made all the difference.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Robert Frost?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Isn't that wonderful?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Did he say that?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: That's all you need, just three lines like that.
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: Edie, is that Robert Frost?
- Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Who else?
- Edith 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale: After Mr. Beale stopped living in East Hampton, I had a terrible hard time with Edie. She just want *wild* after her father wasn't living her. She went wild.