The House of Yes (1997)
Parker Posey: Jackie-O
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Quotes
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Lesly : I don't think you're insane.
Jackie-O : You don't?
Lesly : No.
Jackie-O : You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane?
Lesly : I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled.
Jackie-O : [exasperated] Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed.
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Anthony : Would you like a glass of Liebfraumilch?
Lesly : No thank you. I'll just have a glass of wine.
Marty : That's the name of the wine.
Lesly : Oh!
[laughs]
Lesly : I don't speak french.
Jackie-O : Who does?
Anthony : You do.
Jackie-O : Oh, that's right, I do.
[smiles]
Lesly : So what does that name mean?
Jackie-O : In french?
Lesly : [nods]
Jackie-O : I think it means something German.
Marty : It means, "loving mother's milk."
Lesly : You speak french?
Marty : No. German.
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Jackie-O : You be him, and I'll be her.
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Lesly : [about Marty's ex-girlfriend] Is she still here, in Washington?
Jackie-O : Very much so. I wonder...
Lesly : What?
Jackie-O : No, it's none of my business.
Lesly : What?
Jackie-O : Well, if he plans to get together with her while he's home.
Lesly : Why didn't he marry her?
Jackie-O : He couldn't.
Lesly : Why not?
Jackie-O : It was a family thing.
Lesly : Families objected?
Jackie-O : Something like that.
Lesly : He never told me.
Jackie-O : Men and their secrets.
Lesly : Not all men have secrets.
Jackie-O : We all have our secrets.
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Jackie-O : Goo is what tape is all about. Goo is what makes it tape instead of *paper*.
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Jackie-O : I went through all this trouble to get sane, so you can't just leave.
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Jackie-O : Pennsylvania's just this state that's in your way when you're trying to get someplace else.
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Mrs. Pascal : What's that gun doing there?
Jackie-O : It's not a gun. It's a camera.
Mrs. Pascal : It's a gun.
Jackie-O : It's a camera that looks like a gun.
Marty : Relax, Mama, it isn't loaded.
Mrs. Pascal : How do you know?
Marty : I checked.
Mrs. Pascal : What's it doing there?
Jackie-O : Being gunlike, gunesque, gunonic.
Mrs. Pascal : Where did it come from?
Jackie-O : God?
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Jackie-O : I suppose you think I'm going insane just to be fashionable.
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Jackie-O : I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
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Jackie-O : Were you poor? Did you eat chicken pot pie?
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Jackie-O : Marty and I tell each other everything.
Lesly : Everything?
Jackie-O : We're twins.
Lesly : Did he tell you about his other girlfriends?
Jackie-O : Did he tell *you* about his other girlfriends?
Lesly : There was one, he said.
Jackie-O : [eyes open wide] Did he tell you about her?
Lesly : No, what was she like?
Jackie-O : Who?
Lesly : The girl.
Jackie-O : She wasn't a girl. She was a woman.
Lesly : She was *older* than Marty.
Jackie-O : No, they were almost exactly the same age. Talk about glamorous. She was glamorous.
Lesly : I thought so.
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Jackie-O : Sorry, no pancakes today, I'm afraid!
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Jackie-O : Love is for tiny people with tiny lives.
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Anthony : What did it look like?
Jackie-O : It looked like a hairbrush, like a brush you brush your hair with.
Mrs. Pascal : Was it pink?
Jackie-O : Yes, it was pink, goddamn it! It was pink! It was pink and now is gone!
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Jackie-O : I see Anthony wears a lot of layers around me, don't 'cha Anthony? He's got a tee shirt, a dress shirt, a vest, and a jacket.
Anthony : I'm wearing a jacket because it's Thanksgiving
Jackie-O : You weren't wearing it before.
Anthony : I put it on after Marty got here.
Marty : I appreciate it. It looks nice.
Anthony : I think it belonged to a Kennedy.
Marty : Why? Is there a bullet hole?
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Anthony : [to Jackie] I hear you crying at night alone in your room.
Anthony : [to Marty] I hear her crying at night alone in her room.
Marty : [to Jackie] You cry at night alone in your room?
Anthony : Hey, don't make fun of her! I won't let you make fun of her.
Marty : I wasn't going to make fun of her. I was going to ask her what she cries about.
Jackie-O : [turns away] What do you think? You want somebody for a very long time. And then you have them. And they love you. And they make love to you. But it's not enough. This is the truth about sex.
Anthony : Is that why Peter was lousy in bed?
Jackie-O : I'm not talking about Peter, Anthony.
Jackie-O : [turns towards them, crying] Jesus, I'm talking about Marty.
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Jackie-O : They've switched me - I used to be green, now I'm brown. I wanted my pills to match my eyes. Color me beautiful!
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Jackie-O : We all have our secrets.
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Marty : Leslie, this is Jackie-O.
Lesly : Hi!
Marty : My Mother. Anthony. Meet Leslie. Leslie and I are engaged!
Jackie-O : [screams hysterically, then laughs hysterically]
Jackie-O : [still laughing] I have to find my hairbrush.
Lesly : Oh, I have a comb.
Jackie-O : [squints angrily, then runs away]
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Jackie-O : Well, there's something I've been meaning to ask you. There's this thing I've heard, and if I thought for one second it was true I'd probably kill myself. Does your fiancee work - in a doughnut shop?
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Jackie-O : No, Peter and I have nothing in common. You and I, Marty, have a lot in common; parents, dna, bone structure.