Pieces of April (2003)

Oliver Platt: Jim Burns

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Quotes 

• Jim Burns : I can think of one memory. She was wearing a pink nightgown...

  Timmy Burns : That was ME!

• Jim Burns : Just remember everybody. April is cooking.

  Joy Burns : We'll need an extra dozen glazed.

• Joy Burns : I keep waiting for a good time to tell you, but there's really no good time. I need everyone to listen.

  [pause] 

  Joy Burns : I don't know how to say this.

  [pause] 

  Joy Burns : We need to discuss how each of you, Oh God...

  Jim Burns : It's OK, sweetie.

  [everyone assumes that Joy is trying to discuss her imminent death from cancer] 

  Joy Burns : How each of you is going to handle

  [pause] 

  Joy Burns : discarding food without letting our hostess know.

  [starts laughing] 

• Joy Burns : The thing about Smack Daddy is...

  Grandma Dottie : Who?

  Joy Burns : Smack Daddy.

  Jim Burns : Have I ever heard of Smack Daddy?

  Timmy Burns : He's a black singer, dad, you wouldn't know him.

  Jim Burns : Oh, no! I never head of, uh, James Brown, or Barry White, or Puffy the Dog...

• [Beth has just finished singing] 

  Jim Burns : Bravo! Encore, encore!

  Beth Burns : Any requests?

  Joy Burns : That you stop.