Claire Quote #276
Quote from Claire in Tableau Vivant
Cameron: Oh, I got it. No, I got a finger on it. There it is. Oh, lost it again.
Claire: Maybe you should just wait until it comes to you. You know, make it the captain of its own spoon platoon.
Cameron: I understand the point you're making, Claire, but- Oh! Now I'm stuck.
Claire: Yeah, Cam, you are stuck. You are stuck on a philosophy that clearly doesn't work. Sometimes, you need to say "no" to a child.
Cameron: Yeah, and sometimes you need to say "no" to an adult. No, Claire. No, I don't need help raising my child.
Claire: Oh. Okay. Sorry. Guess I-I do have a lot to learn. Right now, I-I'm looking forward to learning if you will get your arm out of there before Lily gets to the garbage disposal switch.
Cameron: Um Lily, sweetie! C-can you do something, please, Claire?
Claire: I would like to. Really, I would, but I would probably just say "no" and shred her confidence and mangle her self-esteem.
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Quote from Phil
Phil: [aside to camera] I'm a stress blinker, um, and what really gets me going is confrontation. I hate it. I-I avoid it at all costs. Terrible at it. Once, I, uh, I tried to break up with a girl, and I danced around it so much, she didn't know I had broken up with her. Twenty years later we're still married.
Quote from Alex
Claire: Honey, do you think you're nervous because you've got a little crush on Mr. Jarvis?
Alex: No.
Claire: Are you sure? Because I've seen the way you look at him-
Alex: Sounds like you're the one with the crush! I've just never had a teacher not like me before.
Phil: Well, Ms. Davis.
Alex: Please. She's a gym teacher. She is to teaching what Dr. Seuss is to medicine.
Claire: And to think she didn't like you.
Quote from Claire
Claire: [aside to camera] Every new generation thinks they have cracked the code on child rearing. What's the latest theory? "Never say no." I say "no" every day in this house.
Phil: But at night, she's a "yes" machine.
Claire: No.