The Golden Girls (TV Series)

High Anxiety (1989)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

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• Blanche Devereaux : ...there was a time in my life when I tried quittin' somethin'.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche, you don't mean...

  Blanche Devereaux : Sex, Dorothy. I tried quittin' sex.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Obviously you fell off the wagon.

  Sophia Petrillo : And onto a naval base.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [Rose is realizing she may be hooked on her medication]  Honey, there's a place for people with this kind of problem.

  Sophia Petrillo : Please, what is she gonna do in the NBA?

  Blanche Devereaux : Rose, let us call a rehabilitation center for you.

  Rose Nylund : No, I don't need one of those places. I can't go to one of those places. I'd be too ashamed. I'd be too embarrassed.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : What is there to be ashamed of? You have a medical problem. Was Betty Ford embarrassed? Was... was Liza Minnelli embarrassed?

  Sophia Petrillo : She should have been. Did you see "Arthur 2"?

• Sophia Petrillo : Phyllis Gluckman is giving me a ride to my acting lesson. If I'm gonna be in a commercial, I want to be good.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Ma, what are you talking about? The commercial is off.

  Sophia Petrillo : No it isn't. I got the director to change his mind.

  Blanche Devereaux : Then he's comin' back here to shoot the commercial?

  Sophia Petrillo : No, he doesn't want to get anywhere near Rose. He's gonna shoot it at his studio.

  Blanche Devereaux : But if he shoots it at his studio, then I get screwed and have nothing to show for it.

  Sophia Petrillo : Welcome to show business.

• Sophia Petrillo : [Referring to Dorothy slurping a milkshake from the blender]  Is it any wonder I never breast-fed her!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [Dorothy is skeptical about Sophia's claim that she's been asked to be in a pizza-store commercial]  OK, OK, Ma, where are you going to shoot this commercial?

  Sophia Petrillo : Well, we discussed many exotic, uh, locations, and we settled on... right here!

  Blanche Devereaux : Oh, now hold on here. I don't want a TV crew comin' in here, messin' up my kitchen, settin' up all that video equipment.

  Rose Nylund : Well, how about shooting it in your bedroom, Blanche? The equipment's already set up there.

• Sophia Petrillo : My memory's not as good as it used to be. Nothing on me is as good as it used to be. Once upon a time, I had a butt you could bounce a quarter on. Now you could lose a Krugerrand in the creases.