My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Paulene Myers: Constance Riley
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Vinny Gambini : Mrs. Riley, when you saw the defendants, were you wearing your glasses?
Constance Riley : Yes, I was.
Vinny Gambini : [pointing upward in Mrs. Riley not looking in his direction] Over here, dear. Would you mind putting your glasses on for us, please?
Vinny Gambini : [stumbling a bit from staring into Mrs. Riley's eyes through her very thick glasses] Whoa. How long you been wearing glasses?
Constance Riley : Since I was six.
Vinny Gambini : Have they always been that thick?
Constance Riley : Oh, no. They've gotten thicker over the years.
Vinny Gambini : So, as your eyes have gotten more and more out of whack, as you've gotten older, how many different levels of thickness have you gone through?
Constance Riley : Oh, I don't know, over sixty years, maybe ten times.
Vinny Gambini : Maybe you're ready for a thicker set.
Constance Riley : Oh no. I think they're okay.
Vinny Gambini : Maybe we should make sure. Let's check it out.
Vinny Gambini : [grabbing a tape measure from his desk and bringing it over to Mrs. Riley] Now, how far away were the defendants from you when when you saw them enterin' the Sac-o-Suds?
Constance Riley : About a hundred feet.
Vinny Gambini : A hundred feet.
Vinny Gambini : [handing Mrs. Riley the end of the tape measure] Would you mind holding this, please? Thank you.
Vinny Gambini : [making his way through the crowd to the courtroom door] Sorry. Excuse me, excuse me. Sorry, sorry. Okay, this is fifty feet, that's half the distance.
[Vinny holds up two fingers on his right hand]
Vinny Gambini : How many fingers am I holding up?
[Mrs. Riley is squinting, trying to see the fingers]
Judge Chamberlain Haller : Let the record know that the counselor is holding up two fingers.
Vinny Gambini : [annoyed] Your Honor, please, huh?
Judge Chamberlain Haller : Oh, sorry.
Vinny Gambini : Now. Mrs. Riley, and *only* Mrs. Riley...
[Judge Chamberlain gives Vinny a dirty look. Vinny holds up two fingers on his right hand again]
Vinny Gambini : How many fingers am I holding up now?
Constance Riley : [squinting, trying to see the fingers] Four.
Vinny Gambini : [coming back to Mrs. Riley amid the courtroom rumbling in she getting the number wrong] What do you think now, dear?
Constance Riley : Thinkin' of gettin' thicker glasses.