Thumbtanic (2000)

Mary Jo Keenen: Geranium, Old Geranium

Quotes 

• Geranium : Yawn. I'm tired of being rich. I want to be poor: dance with paupers, and have sex in a car. Oh, I do so want to be poor.

  Geranium's Servant : You want to be poor? Are you half crazy? I work eighteen hours a day, for a mere shilling a week; then I return to a freezing room the size of a closet! Oh, I would pack myself in excrement if it meant just staying one degree warmer.

  Geranium : I do so want to be poor... except for all those parts.

• Old Geranium : [Sitting on a chair]  They called it the ship of dreams and it was...

  [falls asleep and falls off chair] 

• Geranium : I'm flying, Jake! I'm really flying!

  Jake : Big deal, I'm the king of the globe... fatty.

• The Interviewer : Tell us your story, old one.

  Old Geranium : Well, ah... I, uh...

  The Interviewer : Give us but a rare glimpse behind the withered curtains of your mind.

  Old Geranium : All right. It was a...

  The Interviewer : Grace us with the marvelous tale of aged wisdom that is locked within the deep, withered pit of the crusty remnants of your aged, ragged brain.

  Old Geranium : Fine. It was a...

  The Interviewer : Grace us with the marvelous tale of withered, decrepit wisdom; spew forth from your lined, grey, wrinkled piehole the secrets locked deep within the past.

• [during the "My Heart is A Thumb" video, at the front of the ship] 

  Geranium : I'm Flying

  Jake : [muttering]  Big deal! I'm king of the globe... fatty.