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Postcards from the Edge (film) Quotes

Postcards from the Edge (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Postcards from the Edge ended its run in 1970.

It features John Calley as producer, Carly Simon in charge of musical score, and Michael Ballhaus as head of cinematography.

Postcards from the Edge (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Postcards from the Edge (film) is 101 minutes long. Postcards from the Edge (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Shirley MacLaine as Doris, Meryl Streep as Suzanne, Dennis Quaid as Jack Faulkner, Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale, Gary Morton as Marty Wiener, Gene Hackman as Lowell, Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann, Annette Bening as Evelyn Ames, Robin Bartlett as Aretha, C. C. H. Pounder as Julie Marsden, Richard Dreyfuss as Doctor Frankenthal, Mary Wickes as Grandma, Dennis Quaid as Jack, Oliver Platt as Neil Bleene, Gary Morton as Bart, Anthony Heald as Alan, Simon Callow as Simon Asquith, and Conrad Bain as Grandpa.

Postcards from the Edge (film) Quotes

C. C. H. Pounder as Julie Marsden

  • (C. C. H. Pounder) "And you don't remember taking any drugs?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Oh well -- sure -- some."
  • (C. C. H. Pounder) "I want you to deal with your feelings, Suzanne, before they deal with you."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Do you always talk in bumper stickers?"
  • (C. C. H. Pounder) "You know, addiction isn't the problem; it's the solution."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You do. You DO."
  • (C. C. H. Pounder) "And until you remove the solution, you can't see clearly what the problem is. This anger isn't about me. Who are you really angry with?"

Oliver Platt as Neil Bleene

  • (Oliver Platt) "I've been in the theatre. I'm actually a theatre director. Sometimes certain line-readings apply. Like in comedy, it is a rule. Inflections go up at the end."
  • (Meryl Streep) "That's a comedy RULE?"
  • (Oliver Platt) "Well, not so much rule as guideline."
  • (Oliver Platt) "We're talking about two minutes of film; two minutes of screen time out of ninety."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Is it correctable?"
  • (Oliver Platt) "Oh, come on. It's not as though you farted during all your dialogue; we sat there in rushes saying 'what's all that noise all over her lines?'"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I'm so relieved. That analogy has bathed me in relief."

Shirley MacLaine as Doris Mann

  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it "ass"? Never let 'em see your ass."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "What is wrong with your hair?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I dunno; it's all the rage in the rehab."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "How was work today, dear?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "They made me do a drug test."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I knew it. I knew you shouldn't do this film."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You knew I shouldn't do it because it's a bad film, not because they were going to make me do a drug test."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "No, I knew it was wrong from the start, I had a dream that it wasn't right. I know you don't believe in my dreams, even the one that predicted your kidney stone. I had a dream the other night that I was drowning in the ocean --"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I really wish I had a Percodan right now. Or two, maybe three."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "-- a very heavy sequined gown pulling me under."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I'm going to kill myself."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Don't say that, dear, even in jest. You just got out of drug clinic. People might take it the wrong way."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I was such an awful mother -- what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "These are the options? You, Joan or Lana?"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "You feel sorry half the time for having a monster of a mother like me. Everything about you says 'look what you've done to me'."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I never said you were a monster."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "You don't say it, but you feel it. Somehow, you lay the entire blame for your drug-taking on me."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I do not. I DO not, mother. I took the drugs, nobody made me."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Go ahead and say it: you think I'm an alcoholic."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Okay -- I think you're an alcoholic."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Well, maybe I was an alcoholic when you were a teenager. But I had a nervous breakdown when my marriage failed and I lost all my money."
  • (Meryl Streep) "That's when I started taking drugs."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Well, I got over it. And now I just drink like an Irish person."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Will you please tell me what is this awful thing I did to you when you were a child."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Okay, you want to know? Do you?"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I want to know. Tell me."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Okay, FINE. From the time I was 9 years old, you gave me sleeping pills."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "That was over-the-counter medication, and I gave it to you because you couldn't sleep."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Mom. You don't give children sleeping pills when they can't sleep."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "They were not sleeping pills. It was store-bought and it was perfectly SAFE. Now don't blame ME for your drug-taking. I do not blame my mother for my misfortunes or for my drinking."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Well, you don't acknowledge that you drink. How could you possibly blame your mother for something you don't even do? Remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those people, including that guy, Michael?"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I did not lift my skirt, it TWIRLED UP. You only remember the bad stuff, don't you? What about the big band that I got to play at that party? Do you remember that? No. You only remembered that my skirt accidentally TWIRLED UP."
  • (Meryl Streep) "And you weren't wearing any underwear."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Well --"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Sing one of your old numbers from my act."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Are you less mad at me now?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I am always less mad at you, Mom."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "So you said you have a ranch?"
  • (Dennis Quaid) "Yeah, out in Malibu."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "If all ranchers looked like you, there wouldn't be many crops."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "Depends on what you're raising."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Certainly not doubts."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Oh, I was just coming to get you, your little friend is here."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Can I speak to you for a moment in private?"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Excuse me, my daughter wants to speak to me."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I would really just like a few people of my own without them having to like you so much."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I was just being friendly. And I don't care if he likes me or not, your friend in there with the bedroom eyes."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Right. And the living room nose, the kitchen forehead and den ears."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "You know what they say. No pain, no gain."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Well, no wonder I'm so hefty."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Hefty? If you ask me I think you're too thin. Now my stomach, that's hefty."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I was kidding."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "I don't get your generation's humor most of the time."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I don't have a generation."
  • (Gary Morton) "Then I think you should get one."

Richard Dreyfuss as Doctor Frankenthal

  • (Richard Dreyfuss) "Would you maybe like to go out with me sometime? Catch a movie or something?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Sure. We can go see "Valley of the Dolls." We'll say fate brought us together."
  • (Richard Dreyfuss) "Suzanne, we're going to have to pump your stomach."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Ohhh -- do I have to be there?"

Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale

  • (Meryl Streep) "Aw, shut up, Grandma."
  • (Mary Wickes) "I beg your pardon?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I should think you would."
  • (Mary Wickes) "You see there? Now if you washed her mouth out with soap when she was little, like I told you, maybe she'd have some respect now."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I'm simply suggesting we all try to enjoy one each other without having to assign blame."
  • (Mary Wickes) "Ooh, listen to Miss Snootybritches. "Assign blame," hee hee."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Come on."
  • (Mary Wickes) "Just what do you think you're doing, young lady?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "I'm moving you out to the waiting room."
  • (Mary Wickes) "Well, there's no need to shove. I'm going. You know what you need? I good pop on the butt like I used to give your mother. I--"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "If I thought I made you feel like that, I'd kill myself."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Don't say that, even in jest, Ma, particularly when you're in a hospital. People might take it the wrong way."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I have nothing to say."
  • (Robin Bartlett) "The same cannot be said for the rest of your family."
  • (Meryl Streep) "When did you see Jack last?"
  • (Annette Bening) "Umm, Saturday. Saturday night."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I was with him Saturday afternoon. That's two girls in one day."
  • (Annette Bening) "And that's just the ones we know about. Think what you could find out if you had one of those satellite things."
  • (Meryl Streep) "How can you laugh? It's completely disgusting. Especially in this day and age."
  • (Annette Bening) "You look like someone who can take care of herself. Buy some condoms. Don't feel bad. He probably really likes you. If you can just -- enjoy yourself with him like he's enjoying himself with you -- That's what I do. I'm in it for the "endolphin" rush."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Endorphin."
  • (Annette Bening) "Whatever."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Do you know Jack Faulkner?"
  • (Annette Bening) "Oh, yeah."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You've -- slept with him?"
  • (Annette Bening) "Well, I don't know how much of a rest I got. Wait, he hasn't got?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "No. Oh, God, I hope not."
  • (Annette Bening) "You scared me. I thought maybe you were from some celebrity AIDS notification board or something."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You said you loved me."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "I meant it at the time."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Well what was it, a viral love? Kind of a 24 hour thing? Apparently Evelyn smells like Catalina too; must be going around."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Can I ask you something personal?"
  • (Annette Bening) "You mean asking me who I have sex with isn't personal anymore? What do you want to know, if I smoke?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Thanks GOD I got sober now so I can be hyper-conscious for this series of humiliations."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I've been approached by hundreds of people who've felt the need to address the lack of relaxation in my work."
  • (Simon Callow) "Really? Hundreds? Well, I'll have a chat with them."
  • (Meryl Streep) "In the future, I would prefer to receive direction solely from you. I mean we're talking about one day of work here. A day in which I was tied to a cactus and assaulted by snakes. Like I was a child. Maybe they should bring my mother on the set and she can make sure I'm relaxed."
  • (Simon Callow) "That's it. That's her. That's the character. What you're doing right now."
  • (Meryl Streep) "But, Simon. This isn't relaxed. This is incredibly upset."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Instant gratification takes too long."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Did you want some more cashews, Grandpa?"
  • (Conrad Bain) "Did I already have some?"
  • (Mary Wickes) "He gets worse every day."
  • (Conrad Bain) "Who gets worse? I heard that. Get off my back, woman. I wanna go home."
  • (Mary Wickes) "We're going home, dear."
  • (Conrad Bain) "Not with you. I wanna go home."
  • (Conrad Bain) "Are we going soon?"
  • (Robin Bartlett) "Soon, sir. Very, very soon."
  • (Conrad Bain) "You know what my daddy did?"
  • (Robin Bartlett) "What?"
  • (Conrad Bain) "What were we talking about?"
  • (Mary Wickes) "I told ya."
  • (Conrad Bain) "I heard that. Get out my back, woman. Yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap--that's all you do all the livelong day."
  • (Conrad Bain) "And the farmer hauled another load away --"
  • (Mary Wickes) "The other night he punched me when I was trying to put some clean pajamas on him."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Ma, I'm middle-aged."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Dear, I'm middle-aged."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Really. And how many one hundred and twenty year old women do you know?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Irish person. You just drink to relax. You just enjoy your wine. I know, you've told me, mother. You don't want me to be a singer. You're the singer, you're the performer. I can't possibly compete with you. What if somebody won? You want me to do well -- just not better than you."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Mom, this is my roommate, Aretha."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Aretha, what an unusual name."
  • (Robin Bartlett) "Yes, I think my parents were expecting someone black."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Are you black?"
  • (Robin Bartlett) "Ummm, no. It was nice to meet you; Suzanne has told me so much about you. I think I'll just go weave a basket or something and let the two of you visit."

Dennis Quaid as Jack

  • (Dennis Quaid) "Are we breaking up?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "We can't break up, we were never together."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "Oh, that should come as news to you, you're acting like a wife."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Better than acting like a whore."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "You're in no position to judge me, you've just got out of a drug clinic."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Where YOU belong, Mr. Pothead, Mr. Vodka, Mr. Bedroom Eyes."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "What are you, a virgin? You weren't so hard to convince that first night."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I thought we didn't do anything that first night."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "I lied."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "You know, you were a lot more fun when you were loaded. And 'Public Domain' was a piece of s***."
  • (Meryl Streep) "Relax, they're blanks, asshole."
  • (Dennis Quaid) "I do not like this particular side of you."
  • (Meryl Streep) "I'm not a box, I don't have sides. This is it, one side fits all."

Simon Callow as Simon Asquith

  • (Simon Callow) "I just wish we could get her to stop eating so much. I suppose having to do without drugs, she has to do something. Do ya think we could get her to start smoking?"

Mary Wickes as Grandma

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Gene Hackman as Lowell

  • (Gene Hackman) "You know, you're not going to get a lot of sympathy. Do you know how many people would give their right arm to live your life?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "But that's the problem. I can't feel my life. I look around me and I know so much of it is good. But it's like this stuff with my mother. I know that she does these things because she loves me -- but I just can't believe it."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Maybe she'll stop mothering you when you stop needing mothering."
  • (Meryl Streep) "You don't know my mother."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I don't know your mother, but I'll tell you something. She did it to you and her mother did it to her and back and back and back all the way to Eve and at some point you just say, "f*** it, I start with me.""
  • (Meryl Streep) "Did you just make that up?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Yeah, well, I was working on it when you came in. If you'd shown up a half hour later like you were supposed to, it would have been better."
  • (Meryl Streep) "It's pretty good as it is."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Yeah, you just like it because it sounds a little like movie dialogue."
  • (Meryl Streep) "That's right, I don't want life to imitate art, I want life to be art."

Gary Morton as Bart

  • (Gary Morton) "Excuse me, Suzanne, can I meet your mother?"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Sure. Bart, this is my mom --"
  • (Gary Morton) "Oh, Miss Mann, I've loved you my whole life. Ever since I was seven, I wanted to be you."
  • (Anthony Heald) "Bart does you in his drag show."
  • (Gary Morton) "Oh, this is my lover, Alan. Yes, I wear a costume exactly like the one you wore in "That Marvelous Mrs. Markham.""
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Oh, the one with the corset? That was so difficult to wear --"
  • (Meryl Streep) "Mom?"
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Oh, I must go, sorry, boys. It was very nice to meet you."
  • (Shirley MacLaine) "Sorry, dear, but you know how much the queens love me."

Robin Bartlett as Aretha

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