The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series)

Hilary Gets a Life (1992)

Joseph Marcell: Geoffrey Butler

Quotes 

• Geoffrey : WeII, I had a hand in raising you, Miss Hilary and if I do say so myseIf, Geoffrey don't raise no fools. Now if you Iove this job as much as I think you do, go out there, pick up a tray and enter that room as if you were the Queen of England.

  Hilary Banks : But she's so dowdy. Can I be Princess Caroline instead?

• Geoffrey : Miss Hilary, will you pIease be sensibIe?

  Hilary Banks : My friends are out there, Geoffrey. One of them is going to go to medicaI schooI. The other one Ianded a job with IBM. If they see me out there serving, they're gonna think I'm a big fat zero.

  Geoffrey : What matters is what you think about yourseIf.

  Hilary Banks : Maybe in Des Moines. This is L.A., okay? Besides, I lied to get this job and now I can't do it. I quit.

  Geoffrey : Miss Hilary? Remember when you were nine, you begged your parents to buy you a vioIin, but five minutes into your first lesson, what did you do?

  Hilary Banks : I quit. I had to. It irritated my chin.

  Geoffrey : And what about ballet?

  Hilary Banks : I quit. I had to. I was starting to get feet Iike Fred Flintstone.

  Geoffrey : And cheerleading?

  Hilary Banks : Okay, I quit that, too, but they wanted me to go to away games on a bus!

  Geoffrey : Miss Hilary, you can't go through life quitting everything. You'll never achieve anything unless you stick with something and you shouId stick with this because you've done a truly remarkabIe job on this party.