The House of Yes (1997)

Parker Posey: Jackie-O

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• Marty : Are you being wise?

  Jackie-O : One day I woke up wise.

  Marty : One day I woke up stupid.

  Jackie-O : What'd you do?

  Marty : I went back to bed.

  Jackie-O : That was wise.

• Lesly : I don't think you're insane.

  Jackie-O : You don't?

  Lesly : No.

  Jackie-O : You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane?

  Lesly : I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled.

  Jackie-O : [exasperated]  Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed.

• Anthony : Would you like a glass of Liebfraumilch?

  Lesly : No thank you. I'll just have a glass of wine.

  Marty : That's the name of the wine.

  Lesly : Oh!

  [laughs] 

  Lesly : I don't speak french.

  Jackie-O : Who does?

  Anthony : You do.

  Jackie-O : Oh, that's right, I do.

  [smiles] 

  Lesly : So what does that name mean?

  Jackie-O : In french?

  Lesly : [nods] 

  Jackie-O : I think it means something German.

  Marty : It means, "loving mother's milk."

  Lesly : You speak french?

  Marty : No. German.

• Jackie-O : You be him, and I'll be her.

• Lesly : [about Marty's ex-girlfriend]  Is she still here, in Washington?

  Jackie-O : Very much so. I wonder...

  Lesly : What?

  Jackie-O : No, it's none of my business.

  Lesly : What?

  Jackie-O : Well, if he plans to get together with her while he's home.

  Lesly : Why didn't he marry her?

  Jackie-O : He couldn't.

  Lesly : Why not?

  Jackie-O : It was a family thing.

  Lesly : Families objected?

  Jackie-O : Something like that.

  Lesly : He never told me.

  Jackie-O : Men and their secrets.

  Lesly : Not all men have secrets.

  Jackie-O : We all have our secrets.

• Jackie-O : Goo is what tape is all about. Goo is what makes it tape instead of *paper*.

• Jackie-O : I went through all this trouble to get sane, so you can't just leave.

• Jackie-O : Pennsylvania's just this state that's in your way when you're trying to get someplace else.

• Jackie-O : What about what *we* have?

  Marty : *Had*

  Jackie-O : I don't recognize the past tense.

• Jackie-O : Sorry about that, by the way, I didn't mean to maim you. I only meant to kill you.

  Marty : These things happen.

• Mrs. Pascal : What's that gun doing there?

  Jackie-O : It's not a gun. It's a camera.

  Mrs. Pascal : It's a gun.

  Jackie-O : It's a camera that looks like a gun.

  Marty : Relax, Mama, it isn't loaded.

  Mrs. Pascal : How do you know?

  Marty : I checked.

  Mrs. Pascal : What's it doing there?

  Jackie-O : Being gunlike, gunesque, gunonic.

  Mrs. Pascal : Where did it come from?

  Jackie-O : God?

• Jackie-O : I suppose you think I'm going insane just to be fashionable.

• Lesly : Boy, it's been a long day.

  Jackie-O : Not as long as yesterday. Yesterday was 24 whole hours.

• Jackie-O : I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

• Jackie-O : Were you poor? Did you eat chicken pot pie?

• Jackie-O : Marty and I tell each other everything.

  Lesly : Everything?

  Jackie-O : We're twins.

  Lesly : Did he tell you about his other girlfriends?

  Jackie-O : Did he tell *you* about his other girlfriends?

  Lesly : There was one, he said.

  Jackie-O : [eyes open wide]  Did he tell you about her?

  Lesly : No, what was she like?

  Jackie-O : Who?

  Lesly : The girl.

  Jackie-O : She wasn't a girl. She was a woman.

  Lesly : She was *older* than Marty.

  Jackie-O : No, they were almost exactly the same age. Talk about glamorous. She was glamorous.

  Lesly : I thought so.

• Jackie-O : Sorry, no pancakes today, I'm afraid!

• Jackie-O : Love is for tiny people with tiny lives.

• Anthony : What did it look like?

  Jackie-O : It looked like a hairbrush, like a brush you brush your hair with.

  Mrs. Pascal : Was it pink?

  Jackie-O : Yes, it was pink, goddamn it! It was pink! It was pink and now is gone!

• Lesly : Does this happen a lot?

  Jackie-O : Every goddamned hurricane!

• Jackie-O : I see Anthony wears a lot of layers around me, don't 'cha Anthony? He's got a tee shirt, a dress shirt, a vest, and a jacket.

  Anthony : I'm wearing a jacket because it's Thanksgiving

  Jackie-O : You weren't wearing it before.

  Anthony : I put it on after Marty got here.

  Marty : I appreciate it. It looks nice.

  Anthony : I think it belonged to a Kennedy.

  Marty : Why? Is there a bullet hole?

• Lesly : I can't talk that way about your brother.

  Jackie-O : Pretend he is not my brother, I do.

• Jackie-O : It's okay, Anthony. I understand.

  Anthony : Understand what?

  Jackie-O : Just because Marty's attracted to girls doesn't mean you have to be.

  Anthony : I'm attracted to girls!

  Jackie-O : Really? Are you sure?

  Anthony : Yes!

  Jackie-O : Hmm...

• Anthony : [to Jackie]  I hear you crying at night alone in your room.

  Anthony : [to Marty]  I hear her crying at night alone in her room.

  Marty : [to Jackie]  You cry at night alone in your room?

  Anthony : Hey, don't make fun of her! I won't let you make fun of her.

  Marty : I wasn't going to make fun of her. I was going to ask her what she cries about.

  Jackie-O : [turns away]  What do you think? You want somebody for a very long time. And then you have them. And they love you. And they make love to you. But it's not enough. This is the truth about sex.

  Anthony : Is that why Peter was lousy in bed?

  Jackie-O : I'm not talking about Peter, Anthony.

  Jackie-O : [turns towards them, crying]  Jesus, I'm talking about Marty.

• Jackie-O : They've switched me - I used to be green, now I'm brown. I wanted my pills to match my eyes. Color me beautiful!

• Marty : Are you being wise? I think you're being wise.

  Jackie-O : I knew it would happen; one day I'd just wake up wise.

  Marty : One day I woke up stupid.

  Jackie-O : You did?

  Marty : It was terrible.

  Jackie-O : What did you do?

  Marty : I went back to sleep.

  Jackie-O : That was wise.

• Jackie-O : We all have our secrets.

• Marty : Leslie, this is Jackie-O.

  Lesly : Hi!

  Marty : My Mother. Anthony. Meet Leslie. Leslie and I are engaged!

  Jackie-O : [screams hysterically, then laughs hysterically] 

  Jackie-O : [still laughing]  I have to find my hairbrush.

  Lesly : Oh, I have a comb.

  Jackie-O : [squints angrily, then runs away] 

• Jackie-O : Well, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. There's this thing I've heard, and if I thought for one second it was true I'd probably kill myself. Does your fiancee work - in a doughnut shop?

• Jackie-O : No, Peter and I have nothing in common. You and I, Marty, have a lot in common; parents, dna, bone structure.

• Jackie-O : Guess where I am? I'm in a box and I can't get out.

  Marty : No. I'm in a box and I can't get out.

  Jackie-O : Well, I'm sorry that wasn't a very good mime, Marty, I didn't see that at all.