Smash (TV Series)
Hell on Earth (2012)
Katharine McPhee: Karen Cartwright
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Quotes
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Jason : [orange juice commercial rehearsal] Hi, Karen, hi! You look fantastic!
Karen Cartwright : [skintight green body-stocking] Really? I feel like a frog.
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Karen Cartwright : [after on-stage fiasco, Ivy has gone out in the street wearing angel costume] Ivy! Ivy, wait!
Ivy Lynn : [mumbling to herself] Oh, you got to be kidding!
Karen Cartwright : [catching up] Are you okay?
Ivy Lynn : You saw that? Oh, of course, you were right there to see everything. Did you enjoy it?
Karen Cartwright : No, of course not.
Ivy Lynn : [softly mocking] Of course not.
[continues on her way]
Karen Cartwright : Wait! I have your sunglasses.
Ivy Lynn : [smirks] You're returning my sunglasses? You know what I did when I found your sunglasses? I threw them out!
Karen Cartwright : Whatever.
[turns, heads off]
Ivy Lynn : You're nothing special! There are thousands of girls just like you! Millions of girls just like you! And you think this
[looks down at her chorus girl costume]
Ivy Lynn : will never happen to you?
[breaks down:]
Ivy Lynn : This was supposed to be my time...
Karen Cartwright : It is your time. You're on Broadway. You're Marilyn Monroe.
Ivy Lynn : I was Marilyn for like five seconds.
Karen Cartwright : But I never got to do it even once, so maybe you should stop complaining about how lousy your life is.
Ivy Lynn : [tearful tirade] You were weak, you were naïve, you didn't want it enough, you didn't put enough on the line...
Karen Cartwright : Yeah, okay. I didn't sleep with Derek, and you're right, I didn't do enough. But trust me, it wasn't because he didn't ask. You were the first choice. Sorry.
Ivy Lynn : Please. My mother said worse things than that regularly at Sunday dinner.
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Ivy Lynn : [collapsed onto bed, exhausted, still in angel costume] Hey, we're now best friends now, okay?
Karen Cartwright : I know.
Ivy Lynn : [sleepily] Good.