Butterflies Are Free (1972)

Goldie Hawn: Jill

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• Mrs. Baker : [interrogating Jill about being divorced]  How long were you married?

  Jill : Six days.

  Mrs. Baker : And on the seventh day you rested?

  Jill : No, I split.

• Jill : I'm auditioning for a part in a new play with a little theatre group called The Cosmic Workshop. It's about this girl who gets all hung up when she marries a homosexual. Originally he was an alcoholic, but homosexuals are very in now in movies and books and plays, so they changed it.

  [pause] 

  Jill : Are you homosexual?

  Don : No, just blind.

• Jill : Is blindness hereditary?

  Don : I never heard that.

  Jill : Can your father see?

  Don : I doubt it. He's been dead for six years. Up till then he didn't have any trouble though.

• Mrs. Baker : [Jill says she has to go to an audition]  Then you're an actress?

  Jill : Well, yeah.

  Mrs. Baker : Might I have seen you in anything, besides your underwear?

  Jill : Um, not unless you went to Beverly Hills High School. I was in The Mikado. I played Yum-Yum.

  Mrs. Baker : [laughing]  Yes, I'm sure you did.

• Jill : [talking about auditioning for the play naked]  I don't think anyone could call me a prude.

  Mrs. Baker : [mock outrage]  I'd like to see them try!

  Jill : Well, at first I hated the idea of getting completely undressed, but there were, like, twenty or thirty actors all around me, all naked, and I was the only one with clothes on! How would you feel?

  Mrs. Baker : Warm, all over.

• Jill : [arguing to Mrs. Baker]  You're always dwelling on the negative. Always what he needs, never what he wants. Always what he can't do, never what he can. What about his music? Have you heard the songs he wrote? I'll bet you didn't even know he could write songs. Well, you might be dead right about me. I'm not the ideal girl for Don. But I know one thing: neither are you! And if I'm going to tell anybody to go home, it's gonna be you, Mrs. Baker! You go home!

• Jill : Boy, I thought I was sloppy!

  Don : What do you mean?

  Jill : Well, unless you know something I don't. Like, ashes are good for the table. Is that why you keep dropping them on there?

  Don : Have you moved the ashtray?

  Jill : It's right here, what're ya blind?

  Don : Yes.

  Jill : What do you mean, yes?

  Don : I mean, yes, I'm blind.

• Jill : She never had syphilis. I'm surprised she had you.

• Jill : There's no such thing as a young Republican.

• Don : [when Jill says she's moving in with Ralph]  Tell me, Jill, with Ralph, is it like the Fourth of July and like Christmas?

  Jill : Not exactly. He has a kind of... strength. With him it's more like Labor Day.

• Jill : My mother wanted me to go to UCLA, but I couldn't find a place to park.

• Jill : Am I not the image of Elizabeth Taylor?

  Don : Well, I've never felt Elizabeth Taylor.

• Jill : I don't have anything, but it manages to wind up all over the place. hmm. I'm afraid I'm a slob.