Your meatloaf is directly from mount Olympus. Your father was a very lucky guy.
It's his recipe. He taught me.
Yeah? My old man was a great cook, too.
Mine didn't have much of a choice.
How do you mean?
My mother left us when I was seven.
I don't believe it! My mother left us when I was seven.
Oh come on!
Boy, you really, really, really and truly don't know me. Just about the last thing in the entire word I would joke about is a mother who isn't there. I don't think mothers are sacred. I just don't think they're especially funny.
Me and my big mouth! I don't think you realize how serious I am about you wanting to leave.
I don't think you realize how serious I am about us?
What us? There is no us.
I'm working on it. Frankie and Johnny. We're already a couple.
Going out with someone just because his name is Johnny and yours is Frankie is not enough of a reason.
I think it's an extraordinary one. It's fate. You also said you though I have sexy wrist.
One of my biggest mistakes in my entire life!
It's gotta begin somewhere. A name, a wrist, a toe.
Didn't they end up killing each other?
She killed him. The odds are in your favor. Besides, we're not talking about ending up. I'm just trying to continue what's begun.
If he was anything like you, no wonder she shot him.
It was a crime of passion. They were the last of the red-hot lovers. we're next.
You're not from Brooklyn .
Brooklyn Heights.
I knew you were gonna say that! you're from otter space.
Allentown, Pennsylvania, actually.
Very funny, very funny.
you've never been to Allentown.
Who told you? Viv? Martin? I know, Molly the Mouth!
Now who's from otter space? What the pardon my French **** are you talking about?
One of them told you I was from Allentown so now you're pretending you are so you cab continue with this coincidence theory.
You're from Allentown? I was born in Allentown.
Very funny. Very funny.
St.Stephan's Hospital. We lived on Martell St.
I supposed you went to Moody High School, too.
No, we moved when I was eight. I started out at Park Lane Elementary though. Did you go to Park Lane? This is incredible. This is better than anything in Shirley MacLaine.
It's a small world and Allentown's a big city.
Not that small and not that big.
I still don't believe you.
Of course you don't. It's one big pardon my French again ****ing miracle and you don't believe it.
I'll tell you one thing: I could never, not in a million years, be seriously involved with a man who said "pardon my French" all the time.
Done. Finished. You got it.
I mean, where do you pick up an expression like that?
Out of respect for a person. A woman in this case.
The first time you said it tonight I practically told you I had a headache and had to go home.
That's so scary to me! That three little words, "Pardon my French" could separate two people from saying the three little words that make them connect!
What three little words?
I love you.
Oh. Them. I should've guessed.
Did you ever say them to anyone?
Say them or mean them? My father, my first true love, and a couple thousand men since. That's about it.
I'm not counting.
You're really from Allentown? How did you get so lucky to get out of there eat eight?
My mother. She ran off with somebody.... That place is a gold mine. Portland, Maine, is nice too. Cold though.
You didn't miss much not staying in Allentown... My big highlight was...
What?
Nothing. It's stupid.
I've told you stupid things.
Not this stupid.
No fair.
All right! I played Fiona in our high school production of Brigadoon.
What's stupid about that? I bet you were wonderful.
It's hardly like winning a scholarship to Harvard or being the class valedictorian. It's an event; it shouldn't be a highlight.
So you're an actress.
you mean at this very moment in time?
I said to myself, "She's not just a waitress.
Yeah, she's an unsuccessful actress! What are you really?
I'm really a cook.
Oh. When you put it like that. I'm really a waitress. I haven't tried to get an acting job since the day I decided I never was gonna get one. Somebody told me you've gotta have balls to be an actress. I got balls, I told 'em No, Frankie, you've got a big
Would you... You know...
What?
Act something for me?
What are you? Nuts? You think actors go around acting for people just like that? Like we do request?
I'm sorry I didn't know.
Acting is an art. It's a responsibility. It's a privilege.
And I bet you're good at it.
And it looks like I'll die with my secret.