Felicity Huffman credited as playing...
Hillary Lichten
- Phoebe: Where's Daddy going?
- Hillary Lichten: He had some work to do.
- Olivia Lichten: But it's Halloween. What are you doing?
- Phoebe: Take my candy.
- Olivia Lichten: Why?
- Phoebe: It's my fault... Daddy leaving.
- Hillary Lichten: No, he had work to do.
- Olivia Lichten: [Halloween 'costumed' as Karl Marx] How come no one knows who I am?
- Hillary Lichten: It's esoteric, sweetie.
- Peter Lichten: You're very original. Now, go try this other house. Don't let the poppies put you to sleep.
- Colleague: How does a seven-year-old have angst?
- Hillary Lichten: You don't know the half of it.
- Olivia Lichten: Mozart was six when he wrote his first opera! I'm seven!
- Hillary Lichten: Well, he's only got a year on you, sweetie.
- Olivia Lichten: You don't understand!
- Peter Lichten: Why do we have to go to the principal's office?
- Phoebe: I spat at the other kids. I couldn't help it.
- Peter Lichten: Phoebe, what do you mean you couldn't help it?
- Hillary Lichten: She means she couldn't help it.
- Phoebe: Please tell Mr. Davis I couldn't help it.
- Principal Davis: She spat, Mrs. Lichten, she spat.
- Phoebe: Spat, spat, water rat.
- Principal Davis: So I thought you could come in and we could chat about it.
- Phoebe: Tommy spat first!
- Principal Davis: Phoebe, perhaps you should let your mommy and daddy and I talk alone about it. Here, you can have a candy.
- Hillary Lichten: Phoebe is imaginative and sensitive and passionate and if she did get excited about the gerbil, I'm sure she was provoked. You heard her, that other terror spat first.
- Phoebe: Why'd she take off her dress? If I had a dress like that, I'd never take it off.
- Olivia Lichten: You'd have to, to wash it.
- Phoebe: No, because maybe if I wore it long enough, one day I'd wake up and I'd be that person.
- Hillary Lichten: You'd have to choose your part carefully.
- Phoebe: Oh, I would. Believe me, I would.