Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Maureen O'Sullivan: Norma
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Quotes
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Norma : How can you act when there's nothing inside to come out?
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Hannah : What triggered it?
Evan : We were making a commercial down at the mayor's office. And there was this young, good looking salesman that your mother was throwing herself at him in a disgusting way. And when she found she was too old to seduce, that he was embarrassed by her...
Norma : Liar! Liar!
Evan : And at lunch she got drunker and drunker and, finally, she became Joan Collins!
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Norma : [referencing Ibsen's "The Doll House"] I played Nora, I hate to tell you what year, and it's very difficult to behave like Torvald's "little chipmunk" without making a perfect *ass* out of yourself.
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Norma : All my life I've put up with insults from this - nonperson. This - this haircut that passes for a man.
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Norma : I knew that he'd get up there and he'd flounder around with his expensive haircuts, hairdos, and clothes. He's all show! Now, how could you act when there's nothing inside to come out?