Day by Day (TV Series)

How to Succeed in Day Care (1988)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Eileen Swift

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Quotes 

• [a group of children play musical chairs] 

  Eileen Swift : You've taught them to walk in a circle. Are you gonna enter them in a show?

• [Eileen walks into the daycare center and sees the children] 

  Eileen Swift : Oh, look at that. They are so cute, I could just *step on them!*

• Nina Farrell : Are you one of the mothers?

  Eileen Swift : Oh my God! Do I look that bad?

• Eileen Swift : I've got a company I want you to analyze for me. It's a brilliant concept! They're renting out coffee table books for people who don't want to plunk down eighty dollars for the darned things. You know what I'm talking about: Picasso, Treasures of the Pharaoh, The Great Wall of China. I mean, you're never gonna read them, so why buy 'em, right?

• Brian Harper : Tell Kate the first thing we were taught at the firm.

  Eileen Swift : Tape ALL phone conversations.

  Brian Harper : No, no, no, the very FIRST thing you were taught on day one.

  Eileen Swift : Pad your time sheet?

• Eileen Swift : Hey, why the long faces? Was there a Benji movie on TV last night?

• Kate Harper : Molly's parents are threatening to pull her out of this school.

  Eileen Swift : Who's Molly?

  Brian Harper : You know, the cute little blonde.

  Eileen Swift : You can actually tell them apart?