A character in Dead Like Me
Played by Ellen Muth
Dead Like Me · 117 quotes
Most-quoted character in Dead Like Me: in 72 of its 117 quotes
Most scenes with: Rube (17), Mason (11), Daisy (8)
If you stand too close to a painting — all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. Right now this is your particular perspective and if you ask me—-
GeorgeI'm a little too close.
[The reapers are all in the Happy Time office, late at night, taking advantage of the fact that the Gravelings are taking the day off to catch up on paperwork. Rube lights his pipe.]
GeorgeYou can't smoke in here.
Ah, fuck that bullshit, they can blow me.
So what are you? Rube's butt-boy?
GeorgeWhy? Did you resign?
Nah, five deaths is not a disaster.
GeorgeHow many deaths is a disaster?
More than five. Five's bullshit.
GeorgeHow many?
16 to 20, disaster; 21 and up, catastrophe; 8 to 15 is a calamity.
7 and under?
That's a cryin' shame.
Ripoff. Report... Identify... Prove... Ostracize... Fire.
George[aside, to Delores] Rip-of?
You got a problem there Millie?
George[aka Millie] You misspelled ripoff. You dropped an 'f'.
Oh I see. We have ourselves a smart-ass.
GeorgeDon't you mean smart as?
[Crystal and George/Millie are chuckling over a digestively challenged applicant. Dolores is unamused.]
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a serious affliction. Most people don't know this, but Marilyn Monroe had IBS.
GeorgeIs that what blew her skirt up?
[Dolores has just given George a new assignment to pick an applicant for a new pharmaceutical company account]
Backup. Did you just say choose, me?
No I said, "You choose." You're in a new position now. You're like, the prettiest girl at prom, or the sluttiest girl if you went to Catholic school. You get to pick.
Okay George, five reasons why men are scum and women let us get away with it. 1. We all only want one thing. No exceptions. 2. We fall in love before we have that thing, and then fall back out once we've had it, whereas women conversly fall in love afterwards. 3. We will lie, cheat, steal or murder to get that one thing. Why am I sugarcoating this? You're a big girl. In order to fuck you. 4. We freely admit the numbers 1 through 3 and women don't care, and the number 5 reason why men are scum and women let us get away with it: You can't live without us.
George(Raising her shot glass to toast him) Here's to your bullshit, Ray. (Throws three more darts and gets a bullseye on the last one) Fucking men.
[Flashback to elementary-school-age George reading A Tale of Two Cities instead of going to her friend's birthday party.]
We bought her a present!
Young GeorgeWhat did you get her?
We got her a flannel nightgown. With pretty little flowers on it!
Young GeorgeMom. You're gonna get me killed.
Georgia, don't be silly. We're going.
Young GeorgeNot.
You are so!
Young GeorgeSo not.
Why do you have to be so obstinate?
Young GeorgeObstinate. O-B-S-T-I-N-A-T-E. Stubborn.
Georgia Lass, you cannot spend your entire life with your nose stuck in a book!
Young GeorgeTry me.
[At the restaurant, Mason and George return from the bee.]
Hey! How'd it go?
G-R-E-A-T.
GeorgeIt was a spelling bee.
[to Mason] Seriously, how'd it go?
F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C.
How do I get it to stop?
Well, go on, Georgie, tell him.
GeorgeWell, as far as senseless, brutal deaths go, I say it went beautifully.
Yeah! So maybe a little simple "thank you" is in order, instead of your constant irritation, Ruby. Maybe a little bit of G-R-A-T… uh… t… i-i-tude, tude.
[Rube hands out Post-its.]
For you, and you.
Where's Roxy?
She has got a personal day.
Well, why don't I have a personal day?
Because you're an F-U-C-K-U-P.
"Fuck up" has two words.
GeorgeActually, "fuck-up" is a hyphenate.
[They all look at her.]
GeorgeWell, it is!
[George tries to find a way to communicate to memory-challenged Nina that she has died.]
GeorgeDo you want to hear a story, Nina?
Oh, I love stories.
GeorgeWell, once there was a girl named George. She was 18 years old. And she didn't have a husband William, she didn't have have a daughter named Beth, but she had a mom, a father, and a sister. And, one day, she went outside — it was a sunny day, a few clouds, but an ordinary day — and she went out to get some lunch, and this man… he stopped me. And he talked to me. And he knew my last name. I told him to leave me alone, but… then something from the sky fell. And I didn't feel anything. I couldn't remember anything… at first. But then I did. I realized… I died.
[George reaches over to Nina's memory Post-it pad.]
GeorgeI… died.
[She writes on the pad.]
GeorgeI'm dead.
You know, this morning, when you said you spent your last day on Earth, your very, very last day on Earth, stapling?
GeorgeFiling.
My God, that's even worse. You said you regretted it, didn't you?
GeorgeYeah of course. Who gives a shit?
My God, I give a shit. Rube tells us to be on the periphery. To keep away from...things. To keep our distance from...life. Our family...
GeorgeYeah?
God, it is nonsense. You get close, Georgie, you get close to everybody that ever meant anything to you.
GeorgeHave you been drinking?
Of course I've bloody been drinking. And it's last call. And you gotta...you gotta drink up while you still can.
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