- 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.