Stephanie Hodge: Jennie Malloy

Quotes 

• Jack Malloy : All right.

  [reading from list:] 

  Jack Malloy : Susan Powter.

  Mr. Floppy : [dreamily ecstatic]  Aaahh.

  Jack Malloy : Holly Hunter.

  Mr. Floppy : [dreamily ecstatic]  Aaahh.

  Jack Malloy : [dreamily ecstatic, with reverence]  Meryl Streep.

  Mr. Floppy : [dreamily ecstatic]  Aaahh.

  Jack Malloy : Okay now, who else would you like to see roasted over a spit with an apple in their mouth?

  Mr. Floppy : Hilary Clinton?

  Jack Malloy : [shakes his head]  No, we're only doing women.

  [takes another swig of beer] 

  Mr. Floppy : [thinks, makes obvious choice:]  Streisand.

  [enthusiastic:] 

  Mr. Floppy : Roast her, roast her!

  Jack Malloy : All right, but we'll have to tie her nose back, otherwise it will drag through the hot coals when the spit turns.

  Mr. Floppy : We'll serve her with a nice Yentl soup.

  Jennie Malloy : [calling down to the basement:]  Jack!

  Mr. Floppy : Jennie!

  Jack Malloy : [adds her onto the list]  Hoo yes!

• Jennie Malloy : Jack, you are as weird as a wombat, but you're my sanctuary. Last place I feel comfortable. Kids are driving me crazy upstairs. I need someone who will just listen.

  [but Jack is drunk and out of it] 

• Jennie Malloy : Jack, Jack, Ja-a-ck, do you hear me?

  Mr. Floppy : I hear you. That voice of yours can pierce the silence of outer space. You sound like you were raised by a family of air-horns.

  Jennie Malloy : [in her drunken stupor, she is not questioning this absurdity]  Oh, you're over there, Jack.

  [taking a look at Mr. Floppy] 

  Jennie Malloy : You know, I haven't looked at you in a long time. You're hairier than Nicolas Cage. And it's true,

  [picking up his floppy ears] 

  Jennie Malloy : as a man gets older, his ears really do get bigger.

• Jennie Malloy : [mistaking Mr. Floppy for Jack]  Now what were you saying?

  Mr. Floppy : I'm saying, shut up!

  Jennie Malloy : Don't you talk to me that way!

  Mr. Floppy : It's time a man did talk to you that way, and I'll talk to you any way I want!

  Jennie Malloy : [sullenly]  Well, I don't like it!

  Mr. Floppy : [brash]  You like it fine!

  Jennie Malloy : No, I don't!

  [but:] 

  Jennie Malloy : Tell me more!

  Mr. Floppy : I'm giving the orders now, dollface. Now shut up, and dance on that table!

  Jennie Malloy : Jack! I just came down here to talk!

  Mr. Floppy : We both know why you came down here. Keep your lies to yourself. I'll take what's under that robe.