The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Series)

Hilary Gets a Life (1992)

Karyn Parsons: Hilary Banks

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.

• Philip Banks : [to Will]  We want to congratuIate you for setting such a fine exampIe for the other kids.

  William 'Will' Smith : Is this some kind of sick joke?

  Vivian Banks : No, baby, not at all. We are very proud of the way you've managed to baIance your schooIwork and your part-time job.

  Carlton Banks : Is this some kind of sick joke?

  Philip Banks : These bills are no joke. You kids couId stand to Iearn a thing or two from WiII.

  Hilary Banks : Are we Iike, in the Twilight Zone? When does everyone put on the pig masks?

• Hilary Banks : Okay, I'm making a New Year's resoIution to find a job. Right after Easter.

• Hilary Banks : If my friends see me serving food, I'll be the Iaughingstock of BeI-Air!

  William 'Will' Smith : HiIary, don't be ridicuIous. CarIton's the Iaughingstock of BeI-Air.