April Fool's Day (1986)
Deborah Goodrich: Nikki
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Quotes
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[everyone admires the view of the lake from Muffy's window]
Nikki : On a clear day, you can see the Kennedys.
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Nikki : [on camera] My name is Mary O'Reilly O'Toole O'Shea. Somewhere out there is the island my friend Muffy owns. It's spring break and she's invited us over there for the weekend and we're waiting for the ferry now to take us there, and... I don't know what else to say.
Chaz : [voice] Why don't you tell us something about yourself?
Nikki : Oh, all right, something about myself. Um, I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. Oh, and I start convent school next semester... and I fuck on the first date. April Fool's!
[everybody laughs]
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Nikki : [reading magazine quiz] My first experience was A. Painful and degrading. B. Not so hot but I really cared about him. C. I was ready to try again. D. Wildly exciting, I had an orgasm.
Muffy : A and part of B.
Nikki : A, painful and degrading, not so hot but I really cared about him, awww that's so sweet!
Kit : I'll take B.
Nikki : Not so hot but I really cared about him. Was it Rob?
Kit : Uh, no it wasn't Rob. What about you, Niki?
Nikki : Um, A and D, painful and degrading, wildly exciting, I had an orgasm.
[they laugh]
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Skip : A poor boy can say 'Fuck you, Dad, I'm my own person'. What's his father gonna do? Kick him out of the house, disinherit him? His life won't change much. He's got nothing to lose.
Nikki : His father's love.
Skip : That was lost a long time ago.
Nikki : Skip, blaming yourself won't make Buck any better.
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Nan : [about the table set with dolls at every setting] Just like Agatha Christie.
Chaz : And sporks.
Arch : Sporks?
Chaz : [mocking voice] And napkins with bunnies on 'em. Gee, Muff, you really spare no expense.
Muffy : Well now how do you think Daddy made his money?
Nikki : The old fashioned way, he inherited it.
Nan : [about the doll at her place] I used to have all her outfits.
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Nan : Can I make a toast? Well, someone once said to me to cherish the friends you make in college.
Arch : I try to cherish *all* the friends I make.
Nikki : Stop it.
Nan : Because... they'll be the friends you cherish most for the rest of your life. So, here's to us and here's to my life, because I'm very glad to be here. And to be a part of all of you.
Kit : Muffy, anything you want to add to that?
Muffy : Why me?
Nikki : Because you're the hostess.
Muffy : Okay. In his Life of Johnson, Janus Boswell said 'We cannot predict the precise moment when friendships are formed, as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last one which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one which makes the heart run over.' So, with this toast, may our hearts run over and our friendships be formed.