Day by Day (TV Series)

Birthday Presence (1988)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Eileen Swift

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Quotes 

• Justin O'Donnell : Today is my birthday!

  Eileen Swift : Oh well, isn't that super? Last week, it was my birthday.

  Justin O'Donnell : I bet you're old!

  Eileen Swift : You lose!

• Eileen Swift : Before I went to the office, I just had to drop by and put two words in your ear: catastrophic illness.

  Brian Harper : Those are two words I hadn't thought of yet this morning.

  Eileen Swift : It's the stock tip of the '90s, Brian! Health care companies. See, listen, no matter what's going on in the economy, people are ALWAYS gonna be sick. It's fantastic!

  Kate Harper : Well, Eileen, that's very, uh... What's the word I'm looking for? Sleazy.

• [Eileen stares at Kate and the baby] 

  Kate Harper : Would you like to hold her, Eileen?

  Eileen Swift : Oh no - no, no, no! Golly, no! Call it a lack of instinct, but there are just some things I have no desire to hold. Babies... plutonium.