Auntie Mame (1958)

Peggy Cass: Agnes Gooch

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Quotes 

• Mame Dennis : Oh, Agnes, where is your spine? Here you've been taking my dictation for weeks and you don't get the message of my book. Live, that's the message!

  Agnes Gooch : Live?

  Mame Dennis : Yes! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

• [Pouring Agnes a drink] 

  Mame Dennis : This will calm you down.

  Agnes Gooch : Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!

  Mame Dennis : What's wrong with that?

  Agnes Gooch : Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?

  Mame Dennis : He'll love it! Drink!

• Agnes Gooch : [about her evening with Brian... that she can't remember]  I lived. I gotta find out what to do now!

• Mame Dennis : [pointing to Agnes]  And what is this?

  Agnes Gooch : I'm your sponge!

• [repeated line; whenever someone asks what her name is] 

  Agnes Gooch : [deadpanned]  Gooch.

• Agnes Gooch : [dramatically]  How bleak was my puberty!

• Agnes Gooch : Speed-O won't let anybody out who can't do 180 words a minute. - I'm over 200.

  Vera Charles : No... you're not!