Mermaids (1990)
Bob Hoskins: Lou Landsky
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Quotes
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Lou Landsky : If you care about us, would it kill you to show it?
Rachel Flax : "Us"? When did YOU and *my* children become "us"? You're just YOU, Lou - me and the girls, THAT'S "us"!
Lou Landsky : I was talking about you and me.
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Lou Landsky : [Reacting to an odd smile from Rachel as they lay in bed together] What?
Rachel Flax : You're a sexy guy.
Lou Landsky : Do you have to sound surprised when you say that?
Rachel Flax : I *am* surprised.
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Rachel Flax : I'm never growing old.
Lou Landsky : Well, time catches up. What can you do?
Rachel Flax : Keep moving.
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Lou Landsky : Know what we did if we used the wrong fork or spoon when I was a kid?
Kate Flax : What?
Lou Landsky : We had to go out back and stick 'em in the ground. Even if the ground was frozen solid. We used to call it the hardware garden.
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[Rachel, Charlotte and Kate enter Lou's shoe store and meet two nuns from the convent]
Charlotte Flax : [narrating] Oh, God, please let Mrs. Flax control herself.
Lou Landsky : You're still a perfect seven, Reverend Mother. You know, most women's feet get bigger.
Rachel Flax : Only if they marry.
Charlotte Flax : [narrating] Oh, no!
Rachel Flax : You know, your feet swell. When you get pregnant, your feet swell.
[Charlotte is mortified]
Charlotte Flax : [narrating] How could she? How could she?
Rachel Flax : I know mine got swollen when I was pregnant.
Charlotte Flax : [whispering] Mother, how could you say that? She's a holy vessel!