Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Eileen Heckart: Mrs. Baker
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Quotes
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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.
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Mrs. Baker : [talking about Ralph's play] I do not intend to pay money to see nudity, obscenity and degeneracy.
Ralph : Mrs. Baker, these things are all a part of life.
Mrs. Baker : I know, Mr. Santori. So is diarrhea, but I wouldn't classify it as entertainment.
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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.
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Mrs. Baker : [trying to make Don come home] If you insist on staying here, I will not support you.
[Don goes to the phone]
Mrs. Baker : What're you doing?
Don : Calling The Chronicle. What a story! 'Florence Baker Refuses to Help the Handicapped!'
Mrs. Baker : Donnie, I'm serious.
Don : Oh, well, then I'll call the New York Times.
Mrs. Baker : What are you going to do for money? The little you saved must be gone now.
Don : I can always walk along the streets with a tin cup.
Mrs. Baker : Now you're embarrassing me.
Don : Oh, no, I'll stay away from Saks.
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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.
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[Don and Mrs. Baker are arguing over his decision to support himself as a singer]
Mrs. Baker : May I ask how you arrived at this brilliant decision?
Don : It was elementary, my dear mother - by the process of elimination. I made a lengthy list of all the things I couldn't do... like commercial pilot. I don't think TWA would be too thrilled to have me fly their planes... nor United... nor Pan Am. Photographer? A definite out, along with ball player and cab driver. Matador didn't strike me as too promising. I half-considered becoming an eye doctor, but that would just be a case of the blind leading the blind.
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Don : [phone rings] I'm fine, thank you. How are you? It's warm here. How is it in Hillsborough? Well, it's warm here too.
[picks up phone]
Don : Hello, Mother.
Mrs. Baker : [on the other end] How did you know?
Don : When you call, the phone doesn't ring. It says 'M is for the million things she gave me. O is for... ' I forgot what O is for.
Mrs. Baker : You seem to have forgotten a lot of things lately. How are you feeling?
Don : I'm fine, thank you. How are you?
Mrs. Baker : Very well. How's the weather?
Don : It's warm here. How is it in Hillsborough?
Mrs. Baker : Warm.
Don : Well, it's warm here too.
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Mrs. Baker : [looking around Don's apartment] Where did this furniture come from?
Don : Some of it came with the apartment, the rest I picked up at a junk shop.
Mrs. Baker : Well, don't tell me which is which, let me guess.
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Mrs. Baker : And what is that on your head?
Don : [wearing the hat he bought with Jill] French foreign legion cap.
Mrs. Baker : Oh, have you enlisted?
Don : No, I was drafted.
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Don : I don't want you talking to my friends when i'm not around.
Mrs. Baker : I'll make a note of that.