Geoff Pierson: Jack Malloy

Quotes 

• Jennie Malloy : You know, honey, you should come to my hair salon so that your hair can look like mine.

  [there is, of course, no way her hair can compete with her daughter's] 

  Tiffany Malloy : No, I don't think so, Mom. I haven't given up hope yet.

  Jennie Malloy : Testy, testy! You know, I'm the one who's supposed to be moody. Most people when they quit smoking, they get very nervous, they get cranky-

  [Jack reaches across the table] 

  Jennie Malloy : That soda is mine, *damn you!* Not me. No, I'm as calm as the gentle Buddha. I am nicotine-free, you

  [sits down at table] 

  Jennie Malloy : son of a -

  [dirty scowl at Jack] 

  Jennie Malloy : You know what your mother was. I'm so happy, I'm going to go to a beauty spa and finish it all off with an hour in a tanning bed.

  Ross Malloy : Don't get too tanned, or we'll never get a booth at Denny's.

  Jennie Malloy : What about you, Tiffany? Would you like to come with me for a day of beauty?

  Tiffany Malloy : No, Mom. Look, I'm tired of hurting you, so somehow you've got to get it through your head that... I don't like being with you. Come on, don't make that face! You know what you're like!

  Jack Malloy : [long-suffering, morose tone]  None of you really know.