Mermaids (1990)

Bob Hoskins: Lou Landsky

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• Rachel Flax : I'm never growing old.

  Lou Landsky : Well, time catches up. What can you do?

  Rachel Flax : Keep moving.

• 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.

• [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!