Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series)
The New York Philharmonic's Performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel (2013)
Jessie Mueller: Carrie Pipperidge
Quotes
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Carrie Pipperidge : And so the next day we all climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Enoch and me and the nine kids.
Julie Jordan : [laughs] Did you go to any theaters in New York?
Carrie Pipperidge : Course we did! Enoch took me to one of those "extravaganzas." And the curtain come up and the first thing you see is twelve hussies with nothing on their legs but tights!
Julie Jordan : What happened then?
Carrie Pipperidge : Well, Enoch just grabbed hold of my arm, dragged me right out of the theater. But I went back the next day, to a matinee, to see how the story come out.
Julie Jordan : All by yourself? You're lucky you didn't see anybody you know.
Carrie Pipperidge : I did.
Julie Jordan : Who?
Carrie Pipperidge : Enoch!
[Julie laughs]
Carrie Pipperidge : There was this one girl whonsung this awful catchy song. She-here
[demonstrates]
Carrie Pipperidge : -she threw her leg up over a fence like this and she sung...
[begins singing]
Carrie Pipperidge : I'm a tomboy, just a tomboy! I'm a madcap maiden feom Broadway! I'm a tomboy, a merry tomboy-
[Julie gestures to stop as Enoch and Jr. enter]
Mr. Enoch Snow : Turn your eyes away, Junior!
[Junior laughs]
Carrie Pipperidge : I was just telling Julie about that show, "Madcap Maidens"!
Julie Jordan : Won't you stay and visit with us?
Mr. Enoch Snow : I'm afraid we haven't the time. Mrs. Snow and I have to stop by the minister's on the way to the graduation. And I'll thank you very much not to sing "I'm a Tomboy" to the minister's wife.
Carrie Pipperidge : [to Julie] I already did.
[Julie laughs]
Enoch Snow, Jr. : Pa, can I stay and talk to Louise? Just for five minutes.
Mr. Enoch Snow : [Carrie looks at Enoch] Five minutes, no more!
Carrie Pipperidge : I wish we could stay longer.
Julie Jordan : Good-bye.
Carrie Pipperidge : We'll see you at the graduation.
Enoch Snow, Jr. : Still lollygagging. You'd think a woman with nine children would have more sense.
Carrie Pipperidge : If I had more sense, I wouldn't have nine children!
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Jigger Craigin : [picks Carrie up over his shoulder] This how firemen carry people.
Carrie Pipperidge : Is it?
Jigger Craigin : See how helpless you can make a fella if he gets fresh with you?
Carrie Pipperidge : Mr. Craig...
[sees Enoch]
Carrie Pipperidge : hello, Enoch! This is the way firemen carry people.
Mr. Enoch Snow : Where's the fire?
Carrie Pipperidge : He was just showing me how to defend myself.
Mr. Enoch Snow : It didn't look like you'd learned very much by the time I came!
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Carrie Pipperidge : Enoch, say you forgive me. Say something sweet to me, Enoch. Something soft and sweet. Well, say something soft and sweet!
Mr. Enoch Snow : Boston cream pie!
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Carrie Pipperidge : [singing] You're as tight-lipped as an oyster and as silent as an old Sahara spink!
Julie Jordan : [speaking] Spinx.
Carrie Pipperidge : Huh?
Julie Jordan : Spinx.
Carrie Pipperidge : Nuh-uh. Spink.
Julie Jordan : You spell it with an "X."
Carrie Pipperidge : That's only when there's more than one.
[rolls eyes and chuckles]
Julie Jordan : Oh.
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Billy Bigelow : Are you still here?
Carrie Pipperidge : You told us to wait for you.
Billy Bigelow : What do you think I want with two of you? I meant that one of you was to wait. The other can go gome.
Julie Jordan : Well, good night, Carrie.
Carrie Pipperidge : But if you stay, you'll...
Julie Jordan : Good night.
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Mrs. Mullin : I don't run my business for a lot of chippies!
Carrie Pipperidge : Chippy yourself!
Julie Jordan : Yes, chippy yourself!
Billy Bigelow : Oh, shut up, all of you!
Mrs. Mullin : Take a look at that girl, Billy.
[gestures at Julie]
Mrs. Mullin : She ain't never allowed on my carousel again!
Billy Bigelow : What'd she do, anyway?
Julie Jordan : She said you put your arm around my waist.
Billy Bigelow : So that's it? I can't put my arm around a girl without I ask your permission?
Mrs. Mullin : I just don't want that one around anymore.
Billy Bigelow : You...
[pointing at Julie]
Billy Bigelow : you come around here all you want. And if you don't have the price, Billy Bigelow'll treat you to a ride.
Mrs. Mullin : Big talker, ain't you Mr. Bigelow? I suppose you think I can't throw you out, too? You're such a good barker that I can't do with out you? Well, just for that, you're discharged. Your services are no longer required. You are bounced.
Billy Bigelow : Very well, Mrs. Mullin.
Mrs. Mullin : Well, you know I... I could bounce you, if I felt like it.
Billy Bigelow : You just did.
Mrs. Mullin : Well, don't pick up every word I say! Oh, if only my saintly departed husband Mr. Mullin were here. He would set you straight! I only wish my poor husband was alive this minute!
Billy Bigelow : I bet he don't!
Mrs. Mullin : Upstart! After all I've done for you! You're done for good now!