One-Trick Pony (1980)

Blair Brown: Marion

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Quotes 

• Marion : You don't always have to be sarcastic.

  Jonah : Well, I'm not always sarcastic. Well, I was sarcastic in the late seventies, maybe '77, '78, but really, since... February '79 I have hardly been sarcastic.

• Marion : It's the longest adolescence I have ever seen. Well, admit it, in six years, you'll be forty years old. Now, you've gone directly from adolescence to middle age.

  Jonah : In six years I'll be forty years old. In sixteen years, I'll be fifty years old. In twenty-six years, I'll be sixty years old. In a mere sixty-six years, I'll be a hundred years old.

• Jonah : The fern is doing very well.

  Marion : Yes, the fern is doing well, it's doing very, very well.

  Jonah : You spray it regularly, do ya?

  Marion : I spray it every day, I talk to it, give it lots of encouragement.

  Jonah : [whispering]  You haven't told it about our separation?

  Marion : No, absolutely not. I didn't think it would be wise at this time, it's just beginning to sprout new leaves.

• Marion : I'd like to talk to you about Matty.

  Jonah : [Looking in the refrigerator]  No yogurt? No strawberry yogurt?

  Marion : Well, you were the one who liked strawberry yogurt.

  Jonah : [Closing the refrigerator]  Boy, you get a little separated and you can just forget it for your strawberry yogurt... .Talk to Matty about what?

• Marion : Do you want a cup of coffee?

  Jonah : Yeah. Any stimulants will do.