While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Glynis Johns: Elsie

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Quotes 

• [Lucy sits in her booth taking tokens. Suddenly, a ring drops in, and she looks up in surprise to see Jack and the entire Callaghan family standing outside the booth] 

  Jack : Lucy? I need to ask you a question.

  Elsie : Get down on your knee. It's more romantic.

  Saul : He's proposing. Let him do it!

  Elsie : I *am* letting him do it!

  [Lucy and Jack can barely contain their laughter] 

  Jack : Can I come in there, please?

  Lucy : [playfully]  I can't. Not without a token.

  [Jack drops in a subway token and goes into the booth, as his family whispers excitedly] 

  Jack : Marry me?

  Lucy : Yeah. I love you.

  Jack : I love you back.

• Elsie : I like Mass better in Latin. It's nicer when you don't know what they're saying.

• Elsie : [during Mass]  How did Joe Kelly get to be a lector? He takes marijuana!

• Elsie : I could never make a good pot roast.

  Saul : You need good beef. Argentina has great beef: beef, and Nazis.

• Elsie : I don't drink anymore... I don't drink any less, either!

• Dr. Rubin : [about Elsie]  Is she all right?

  Saul : [quietly]  She has a little heart problem, she's had three attacks already.

  Elsie : They weren't attacks, they were episodes.

  Saul : Nothing wrong with her hearing.

• Elsie : [about Peter losing a testicle in a recent accident]  Look at the bright side. He has more room in his jockey shorts.

• Elsie : New Year's Eve hasn't been the same since Guy Lombardo died.