Great Performances (TV Series)

Our Town (1989)

Penelope Ann Miller: Emily Webb

Quotes 

• Emily : My, isn't the moonlight terrible?

• Emily : Oh, Mother Gibbs, I never realized before how troubled and how... how in the dark live persons are. Look at him. I loved him so. From morning till night, that's all they are--troubled.

• Emily : Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?

  Stage Manager : No. Saints and poets, maybe--they do some.

• George Gibbs : Emily, if I do change, and make a big improvement... could you be- I mean, would you be-?

  Emily Webb : I already am, George. I always have been.

  George Gibbs : So, I guess this is a pretty important talk we've been having!