Day by Day (TV Series)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (1988)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Eileen Swift

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Quotes 

• Kate Harper : It's very sad when a neighborhood changes. I think everybody hates to see a part of the past disappear.

  Eileen Swift : Hello, everybody! Isn't it wonderful? Your neighbor died!

• Eileen Swift : Brian, Kate, can I borrow your vacuum cleaner? There are some dead leaves on my lawn I need to suck up.

• [Eileen babysits Emily] 

  Brian Harper : If she should cry...

  Eileen Swift : Oh Brian, I am not a complete doofus! I know what to do when a girl cries.

  Kate Harper : How would you know?

  Eileen Swift : I make my secretary cry five times a day! And when she does, I just buy her a new blouse, tell her she's lost weight and she's as good as new.

• Eileen Swift : How was the concert?

  Ross Harper : Oh, it was fairly standard. We booed the opening act and they left in tears. How'd babysitting go?

  Eileen Swift : Well, where shall I start? Uh, my workmen quit on me, my important papers got smeared with paint and your parents hate me.

  Ross Harper : Oh, went better than I thought.

• Eileen Swift : Oh you guys, I feel like such a jerk. I mean, ever since I bought that house, I haven't been myself. You know, I've been short-tempered and self-centered and abusive and deceptive and... Actually, I have been myself, but I feel bad about it.

  Brian Harper : Eileen, what's the big deal? I mean, you saw a funeral, you got excited, you took advantage of grieving relatives and you renamed our baby. This sort of thing happens all the time.

  Eileen Swift : Yeah, I guess you're right. You know, I'm always my worst critic!

  Kate Harper : No, you're not.

• Eileen Swift : Buying a house is a big step for me. I mean, people like me don't have houses. Grownups have houses! Ozzie and Harriet, Ward and June, Batman and Robin!

  Brian Harper : Technically, I believe they had a cave.