Anjelica Huston
- Highest Rated: Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009)
- Lowest Rated: Material Girls (2006)
- Birthday: Jul 8, 1951
- Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA
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Born July 8th, 1961, he daughter of director John Huston and his fourth wife, ballerina Ricki Somma, Anjelica Huston spent a privileged but troubled childhood in Ireland. Although her father didn't really want her to be an actress, he gave her substantial roles in his films Sinful Davy and A Walk With Love and Death (both 1969). The actress did little movie work during the '70s, choosing instead to pursue a successful, albeit short-term, career as a model before returning to films with a vengeance in the '80s, diligently studying with famed drama coach Peggy Feury.In 1985, Huston earned an Oscar for her performance as the vengeful girlfriend of hit man Jack Nicholson in Prizzi's Honor, making her the first third-generation Academy winner in history. Other worthwhile roles followed in her father's final directorial effort, The Dead (1987), and Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). She was also rewardingly directed by her half-brother Danny Huston in Mr. North (1988). Huston earned additional Oscar nominations for her outstanding dramatic work in Enemies: A Love Story (1989) and The Grifters (1990). On a lighter note, she was ideally cast as Morticia Addams in the two Addams Family movies in the early '90s; neither was recognized by the Academy, although both earned her Golden Globe nominations. Despite her breakup with long-time companion Nicholson (she went on to marry Robert Graham in 1992), Huston still occasionally acted opposite him, most notably in Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard (1995). Other notable roles for the actress during the late '90s included her turn as the wicked stepmother in Ever After (1998) and a hilarious portrayal of a football-obsessed, dysfunctional mother in Buffalo '66.In addition to her work on film, Huston accumulated an impressive roster of television credits during the 1980s and '90s, including her powerful performances as frontier woman Clara Allen in the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and the beleaguered mother of an autistic child in the two-part Family Pictures (1993). She also had a supporting role in the widely acclaimed 1993 production of And the Band Played On. In 1996, Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind-the-camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999. She played Gene Hackman's estranged wife in the critically-acclaimed The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001. She appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in his police drama Blood Work. She continued to appear in a wide variety of films including an officious antagonist in Daddy Day Care. In 2004 she reteamed with Wes Anderson for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and played in the made for cable historical drama Iron Jawed Angels. In 2006 Huston took on a small role in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, and appeared in Martha Coolidge's Material Girls opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff.In 2008, Huston joined the cast of the made-for-HBO period film Iron Jawed Angels, in which she played an activist opposed to the National Woman's Party, which encouraged rewarding American women with the right to vote and hold citizenship. After participating in several films throughout 2006 (Material Girls, Art School Confidential, Seraphim Falls), Huston reunited with Wes Anderson to play a supporting role in the multi-award winning comedy The Darjeeling Limited in 2007. The actress took on another supporting role in the critically acclaimed psychological drama The Kreutzer Sonata (2008). In 2011, she co-starred in the complex comedy drama 50/50, in which she played the overbearing mother of a public radio employee diagnosed with cancer at 27-years-old.
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Highest Rated Movies
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The Player
98%
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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| 14% | Arctic Dogs | Magda | — | 2019 |
| 90% | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum | The Director | — | 2019 |
| 50% | Trouble | Maggie | — | 2018 |
| 58% | Always at the Carlyle | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 82% | The Cleanse | Actor | — | 2018 |
| 77% | Thirst Street | Narrator | — | 2017 |
| Pablo | Actor | — | 2014 | |
| 81% | The Pirate Fairy | Queen Clarion | $5.6M | 2014 |
| 75% | TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast | Queen Clarion | $1.3M | 2014 |
| 9% | Horrid Henry: The Movie | Miss Battleaxe | $2.6M | 2013 |
| 94% | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel | Actor | $0.7M | 2012 |
| 60% | Secret of the Wings | Queen Clarion | $1.9M | 2012 |
| 33% | Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston | Anjelica Huston | $4.5K | 2012 |
| 41% | The Big Year | Annie Auklet | $7.2M | 2011 |
| 93% | 50/50 | Diane | $35.1M | 2011 |
| Burma: A Human Tragedy | Narrator Executive Producer | — | 2011 | |
| 17% | When in Rome | Celeste | $32.6M | 2010 |
| 100% | Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure | Queen Clarion | — | 2009 |
| 56% | The Kreutzer Sonata | Elinore | — | 2009 |
| 90% | Tinker Bell | Queen Clarion | — | 2008 |
| 55% | Choke | Ida Mancini | $2.9M | 2008 |
| Spirit of the Forest (EspÃritu del bosque) | Mrs. D'Abondo | — | 2008 | |
| 34% | Martian Child | Tina | $7.5M | 2007 |
| 68% | The Darjeeling Limited | Patricia | $12M | 2007 |
| These Foolish Things | Lottie Osgood | — | 2007 | |
| 55% | Seraphim Falls | Madame Louise | $0.3M | 2007 |
| American Masters | Actor | — | 2007 | |
| 4% | Material Girls | Fabiella | $11.4M | 2006 |
| Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor | President | — | 2006 | |
| 36% | Art School Confidential | Sophie | $3.2M | 2006 |
| Riding the Bus with My Sister | Director | — | 2005 | |
| 56% | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Eleanor Zissou | $24M | 2004 |
| 7% | Kaena: The Prophecy | Queen of the Selenites | — | 2004 |
| 27% | Daddy Day Care | Miss Harridan | $103.7M | 2003 |
| Iron Jawed Angels | Carrie Chapman Catt | — | 2003 | |
| MC Hammer: 2 Legit - The Videos | Actor | — | 2002 | |
| 53% | Blood Work | Dr. Bonnie Fox | $26.3M | 2002 |
| Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star | Narrator | — | 2002 | |
| 80% | The Royal Tenenbaums | Etheline Tenenbaum | $52.4M | 2002 |
| Barbie as Rapunzel | Gothel | — | 2002 | |
| 45% | The Mists of Avalon | Viviane | — | 2001 |
| 53% | The Golden Bowl | Fanny Assingham | $2.2M | 2000 |
| Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power | Actor | — | 1999 | |
| 41% | Agnes Browne | Director Producer Agnes Browne | — | 1999 |
| 50% | Phoenix | Leila | — | 1998 |
| 91% | Ever After: A Cinderella Story | Rodmilla | — | 1998 |
| 76% | Buffalo '66 | Janet Brown | $2.4M | 1998 |
| 100% | Bastard out of Carolina | Director | — | 1996 |
| 75% | The Crossing Guard | Mary | — | 1995 |
| 65% | The Perez Family | Carmela Perez | — | 1995 |
| Buffalo Girls | Calamity Jane | — | 1995 | |
| Irish Country House | Narrator | — | 1995 | |
| 76% | Addams Family Values | Morticia Addams | — | 1993 |
| 100% | And the Band Played On | Dr. Reisz | — | 1993 |
| 93% | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Marcia Fox | — | 1993 |
| Family Pictures | Lainey | — | 1993 | |
| Rabbit Ears - Rip Van Winkle | Narrator | — | 1993 | |
| 98% | The Player | Herself | — | 1992 |
| 64% | The Addams Family | Morticia Addams | — | 1991 |
| 90% | The Grifters | Lilly Dillon | — | 1990 |
| 97% | The Witches | Miss Eva Ernst/Grand High Witch | — | 1990 |
| Lonesome Dove - The Making of An Epic | Actor | — | 1990 | |
| 93% | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Dolores Paley | — | 1989 |
| 83% | Enemies, a Love Story | Tamara Broder | — | 1989 |
| John Huston - The Man, the Movies, the Maverick | Actor | — | 1989 | |
| 43% | Mr. North | Persis Bosworth-Tennyson | — | 1988 |
| A Handful of Dust | Mrs. Rattery | — | 1988 | |
| John Huston and the Dubliners | Actor | — | 1988 | |
| 93% | The Dead | Gretta | — | 1987 |
| 47% | Gardens of Stone | Samantha Davis | — | 1987 |
| Good To Go | Actor | — | 1986 | |
| 86% | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi | — | 1985 |
| Captain Eo | The Supreme Leader | — | 1985 | |
| 9% | The Ice Pirates | Maida | — | 1984 |
| 95% | This Is Spinal Tap | Polly Deutsch | — | 1984 |
| The Cowboy and the Ballerina | Actor | — | 1984 | |
| Rose For Emily | Actor | — | 1983 | |
| 64% | Frances | Actor | — | 1982 |
| 79% | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Madge | — | 1981 |
| 45% | The Last Tycoon | Edna | — | 1976 |
| 43% | Swashbuckler | Woman of Dark Visage | — | 1976 |
| A Walk with Love and Death | Claudia | — | 1969 | |
| Hamlet | Court Lady | — | 1969 | |
| 43% | Sinful Davey | Actor | — | 1969 |
TV
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Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2012
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The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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Transparent
2014
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Vicki |
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The Talk
2010
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Sunday Morning
2011-2018
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The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
2005-2014
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Guest |
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Smash
2012-2013
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Eileen Rand |
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American Dad (target for inaccurate feed data)
2005
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Medium
2005-2011
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Cynthia Keener |
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American Masters
2001
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Narrator |
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Huff
2006
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Lena Dr. Lena Markova |
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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Lonesome Dove
1989
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Clara Allen |
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Saturday Night Live
1975
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Guest Host |
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Laverne & Shirley
1976-1983
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Geraldine Miss Paris |
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| 96% |
Angie Tribeca
2016-2018
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QUOTES FROM Anjelica Huston CHARACTERS
- Danielle
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I have done all you ever asked me to, and you denied me the only thing I ever wanted.
- Rodmilla
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And what was that?
- Danielle
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What do you think? You are the only mother I have ever known. Was there a time, in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all?
- Rodmilla
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How can anyone love a pebble in his shoe?
- Charlie Hinton
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If you put your kids through this they're gonna be miserable in four languages...
- Miss Gwyneth Harridan
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Five, we start Portugese in the fall.
- Miss Gwyneth Harridan
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My dear Jennifer... In life, there are winners and there are losers; and to win, you have to play dirty!
- Lilly Dillon
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Lilly: My son will be all right. If he isn't, I'll have you killed.
- Prince Henry
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I'm afraid I might have scared the wits out of your servant. Say a young lady with a.... quite a goof arm, actually.
- Rodmilla
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She's mute my lord.
- Prince Henry
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Really? She spoke quite forcefully.
- Chas Tenenbaum
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Why did you try to kill yourself?
- Etheline Tenenbaum
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Don't press him right now.
- Richie Tenenbaum
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I wrote a suicide note.
- Chas Tenenbaum
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You did?
- Richie Tenenbaum
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Yeah. Right after I regained consciousness.
- Morticia Addams
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"I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny."
- Morticia Addams
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I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny.
- Morticia Addams
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"But we can have lots of good fun... that is funny."
- Morticia Addams
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But we can have lots of good fun... that is funny.
- Morticia Addams
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Oh no, he lives.
- Gabriel Conroy
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"What was it he died from so young? Consumption was it?"
- Gabriel Conroy
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What was it he died from so young? Consumption was it?
- Gretta Conroy
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"I think he died for me."
- Gretta Conroy
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I think he died for me.
- Queen Marie
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Baroness de Ghent, you are forthwith striped of your title. And you and your horrible daughter are to be shipped to the Americas on the first available boat, unless by some miracle, someone here will speak for you. [Rodmilla backs up looking at everyone]
- Rodmilla
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There seems to be quite a few people out of town.
- Danielle
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I will speak for her. [Rodmilla is shocked, as everyone bows] She is after all my step-mother.
- Rodmilla
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Your Highness. [she bows, disdainfully]
- Rodmilla
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Yes, but I'm management.
- Marguerite
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Like hell you are! You're just the same as me you big nobody!
- Rodmilla
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How dare you speak to me that way, I am of noble blood!
- Jacqueline
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Where did you get this?
- Rodmilla
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They're Danielle's dowry. For her wedding.
- Marguerite
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Cinderella, married? To who, the chimney sweep?
- Rodmilla
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Jacqueline, go and biol some water.
- Jacqueline
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Me, boil water? Oh, I knew it! I just knew it!
- Jacqueline
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Marguerite gets to do everything.
- Marguerite
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Oh, don't be daft, Jacqueline. The queen doesn't even know you exist.
- Rodmilla
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What Marguerite does is for all of us, my dear. We are counting on you to help her get ready.
- Jacqueline
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Lovely! Next thing you know I shall be cleaning out the fireplace with Danielle!
- Rodmilla
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Marguerite, Jacqueline, gather everything that would fetch a price. We're going to town first thing in the morning.
- Jacqueline
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Mother, it's only a ball.
- Rodmilla
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Yes, and you're only going for food.
- Rodmilla
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Of all the insidious jokes turning your mother into a countess. Why it's almost as absurd as a prince, who spends his days with a servant who sleeps with pugs.
- Danielle
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What bothers you more, step mother? That I am common or that I am competition?
- Rodmilla
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Jacqueline, darling, I;d hate to think you had anything to do with this.
- Rodmilla
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Jacqueline, darling, I'd hate to think you had anything to do with this.
- Jacqueline
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Course not, mother, I'm only here for the food.
- Adam
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what are you doin' ?
- Adam
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What are you doin' ?
- Diane
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I'm gonna make you some green tea
- Diane
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I'm gonna make you some green tea.
- Adam
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Can you just ... come back come sit down
- Adam
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Can you just... come back come sit down.
- Diane
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I heard on the 'Today' show that they said it reduces your risk of cancer by 15%
- Adam
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well.. I've already had cancer... so can you just please come sit down.
- Adam
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Well.. I've already had cancer... so can you just please come sit down.
- Diane
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I'm making you a glass of green tea because I heard on the news that it reduces your chance of getting cancer by 15%
- Royal Tenenbaum
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You can't raise boys to be scared of life. You got to brew some recklessness into them.
- Etheline Tenenbaum
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I think that's terrible advice.
- Diane
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I want you to know that I smothered him because I love him.
- Diane
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Adam I'm your mother!
- Diane
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I'm your mother, Adam.
- Marcia Fox
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You're taking me to dinner, right?
- Marcia Fox
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You're taking me to dinner, right?
- Ted
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Yeah, right. Absolutely. Only we can't sleep together.
- Ted
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Right, absolutely! Only we can't sleep together, not tonight.
- Marcia Fox
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Why not?
- Marcia Fox
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Why not?
- Ted
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Not... not tonight.
- Ted
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Well, because I already slept with Helen Moss once today, and I'm not young and active like I used to be.
- Marcia Fox
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You'll do anything to catch a murderer, won't you?
- Ted
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Well, I already slept with Helen Moss once today, and I'm not young and active like I used to be.
- Ted
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Mmm-hmm.
- Marcia Fox
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You'll do anything to catch a murderer, won't you?
- Henry Sherman
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I just wanted to apologize for the other day, when I proposed to you.
- Etheline Tenenbaum
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Why? I thought it was very sweet.
- Etheline Tenenbaum
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How long have you been a smoker?
- Margot Tenenbaum
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22 years.
- Etheline Tenenbaum
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Well I think you should quit.
- Madame Louise
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Spoken like a true sinner.