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Quotables #51: The Collective Cinema of Meryl Streep
Continuing our Collective Cinema Quotable game right after the Oscars, we've decided to pick the movies of Meryl Streep, who has been nominated for more Academy Awards than any other actor. Each of the following quotes or snippets of dialogue are spoken by Streep. Your job is to guess which movies they're from.
Woman:
What's the matter? You got cooties or somethin'?
Streep:
Oh, apparently.
Woman:
Well, I'll take my chances. [Name deleted], second grade.
Streep:
[Name deleted], I'm...
Woman:
The violin teacher. I know.
Streep:
So, is it my imagination, or does everybody here hate me?
Woman:
Look, it's hard to fit in when you're doing a special program. People figure you're not gonna be here very long, so they don't make the effort. It may take a while for folks to warm up to you, but they don't hate you.
Streep:
What about Alice?
Woman:
A - She thinks the violin is a waste of time. B - She's a bitch!
Streep:
Ha ha ha! So, why are you being so nice to me?
Woman:
Ulterior motives. I want my daughter in your class next year!
Streep:
If I'm here next year...
Woman:
You will be.
Movie 1:
Streep:
Stephen isn't coming.
Man:
Oh, okay. So, then I don't need to fetch Stephen at the airport tomorrow?
Streep:
Well, if you speak to him, and he decides to rethink the divorce, then yes. Fetch away. You're very fetching, so go fetch. And then, when we get back to New York, we need to contact Leslie and see what she can do to minimize the press on all this. Another divorce splashed across page six. Just imagine what they're going to write about me: "The Dragon Lady, career-obsessed. Snow Queen drives away yet another Mr. Priestley." Rupert Murdoch should cut me a check for all the papers I sell for him. Anyway, I don't really care what anybody writes about me. But, my girls. It's just so unfair to the girls. Another disappointment, another letdown, another father figure. Anyway, the point is...the point is...the point is we really need to figure out where to place Donatella, because she's barely speaking to anyone.
Movie 2:
Man:
You know why I like plants?
Streep:
Nuh uh.
Man:
Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.
Streep:
...Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean, they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person, though, adapting is almost shameful. It's like running away.
Movie 3:
Streep:
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
Movie 4:
Woman:
How was work today, dear?
Streep:
They made me do a drug test.
Woman:
I knew it. I knew you shouldn't do this film.
Streep:
You knew I shouldn't do it because it's a bad film, not because they were going to make me do a drug test.
Woman:
No, I knew it was wrong from the start. I had a dream that it wasn't right. I know you don't believe in my dreams, even the one that predicted your kidney stone. I had a dream the other night that I was drowning in the ocean...
Streep:
I really wish I had a Percodan right now. Or two, maybe three.
Woman:
...a very heavy-sequined gown pulling me under.
Streep:
I'm going to kill myself.
Woman:
Don't say that, dear, even in jest. You just got out of a drug clinic. People might take it the wrong way.
Movie 5:
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