Great Performances (TV Series)

You Can't Take It with You (1984)

Maureen Anderman: Alice Sycamore

Quotes 

• Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : Alice, you're in love with this boy and you're not marrying him because we are the way we are.

  Alice Sycamore : Oh Grandpa.

  Grandpa Martin Vanderhof : I know, you think it wouldn't work out, you think the two families wouldn't get along, well maybe they wouldn't, but whose to say they're right and we're wrong?

• Tony Kirby : I wouldn't trade one minute of this evening for all the rice in China.

  Alice Sycamore : Is there much rice in China?

  Tony Kirby : Didn't you read "The Good Earth"?

• Tony Kirby : My father raises orchids at $10,000 a bulb, does that sound logical? My mother studies spiritualism, that's just as bad as your mother typing plays.

  Alice Sycamore : Your mother studies spiritualism because it's fashionable and your father raises orchids because he can afford to. My mother types plays because 8 years ago a typewriter was delivered here by accident.