"When you POLISH the floor you have to MOVE the TREE"
Anyone else just love the way she says that line? It cracks me up!
"We all go a little mad sometimes..." - Norman Bates
If you can't do anything right, don't do it at all.
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polish or clean? You shouldn't have to clean under a plant with dutch cleanser. What's with all the dutch cleanser, and on light surfaces?(lol) Yet, Faye is still punching her words out a tad even on this line
shareyeah. when you apply furniture polish to a wooden table that has dust on it, you make a mess, if not mar the table top.
polish means to put a shine in something. Mommie and her 'meat loses its vitamins if it is cooked for too long' and her 'nobody ever said life was fair' should have known better.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
Uncanny. I heard her say it in all its polished emphasis when I read the subject line. ๎ฉ
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I feel the same when I hear it - it is almost corny.
shareNot only is it an awkward line, but itโs the exact moment that starts to move the film away from straight drama... and toward camp classic.
shareI get the impression that Joan never let her guard down. By this I mean she never spoke like she did before going into movies then the talkies. Perhaps speaking unnaturally offstage did come across as somewhat false?
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