Zooey Deschanel credited as playing...
Anita Miller
- Anita Miller: First it was butter; then, it was sugar and white flour, bacon, eggs, bologna, rock 'n roll, motorcycles. Then! It was celebrating Christmas on a day in September when you knew it wouldn't be commercialized! What else are you gonna ban?
- Elaine Miller: Honey, you want to rebel against knowledge, I'm trying to give you the Cliff Notes on how to live life in this world.
- Anita Miller: We're like nobody else I know!
- Elaine Miller: I am a college professor. Why can't I teach my own kids? Use me!
- Anita Miller: Darryl says that you use knowledge to keep me down. He says that I'm a "Yes" person and *you* are trying to raise us in a "No" environment.
- Elaine Miller: Well, clearly "No" is a word Darryl doesn't hear much.
- Anita Miller: I can't live here! I hate you! Even William hates you!
- Young William: I don't hate her.
- Anita Miller: You *do* hate her. You don't even know the truth.
- Elaine Miller: Sweetheart, don't be a drama queen.
- Anita Miller: Feck you!
- Elaine Miller: Hey!
- Anita Miller: This is a house of lies!
- Elaine Miller: [to William] Your Dad was so proud of you. He knew you were a predominantly accelerated child.
- Anita Miller: What about me?
- Elaine Miller: You are rebellious and ungrateful of my love.
- Anita Miller: All the kids make fun of him. They call him the Narc behind his back.
- Elaine Miller: What's a narc?
- Anita Miller: It's a narcotics officer.
- Elaine Miller: Well, what's wrong with THAT?
- Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music.
- Elaine Miller: It's because it is about drugs and promiscuous sex.
- Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry.
- Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It is the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex! Honey, they're on - pot.
- Anita Miller: [talking to William at the airport, after his story was rejected by Rolling Stone] You look awful, but it's great. You're living your life. You're free of Mom.
- [William makes a face at her]
- Anita Miller: Hey, I'll take off work. Let's have an adventure together - you and me - finally. Anywhere you wanna go, anywhere in the world.
- Anita Miller: [cut to the Miller's house] This is not my idea of a good time.
- Anita Miller: This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess.
- Elaine Miller: We can't talk? We have to listen to rock music?
- [Anita puts on Simon & Garfunkel's "America"]