Nurse Betty (2000)

Renée Zellweger: Betty

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Quotes 

• Betty Sizemore : He also works at Loma Vista.

  Chief Nurse Iris Foster : What is that?

  Betty Sizemore : It's the real pretty area, with the palm trees out front and the mountains in the background.

  Chief Nurse Iris Foster : You have just described all of southern California.

• Betty Sizemore : My friend says if you were any more handsome it would be a crime. It's a shame you're such an asshole.

• Betty Sizemore : Gosh! I haven't been this happy since I was 12.

  George McCord : Okay, I'll bite. What happened when you were 12?

  Betty Sizemore : I took my mom to Kansas City for Mothers' Day and I used the allowance I was saving. We went to lunch at Skies, this restaurant at the top of a building, and you can see the whole world from up there. It was our last special thing 'cause she died that year. It was a great day.

  George McCord : You just gave me goose bumps from that. You know that? That is just great improv!

• [about to perform a medical procedure on a gunshot victim] 

  Betty : No, I have to do this or he'll die. It's OK, I've seen it done once.

• Ellen : So, where are you headed, Betty?

  Betty Sizemore : Los Angeles, California!

  Betty Sizemore : And you called your friend and she's telling you not to go?

  [Betty nods, regretfully] 

  Ellen : When I went to Europe, my friends told me I was crazy.

  Betty Sizemore : Europe? *The* Europe? God, this is my first time out of Kansas!

  Ellen : I should call you Dorothy.

  [they both laugh] 

• Betty : [sarcastic]  Nothing like watching the tenpins fall.

  Del : Hey, that's a skill. They're trying to get that in the Olympic games.

• Betty : [gesturing at Wesley's meat sandwich]  You sure you don't want a salad?

  Wesley : You sure you want a tip when I'm done?

• George McCord : Well, I don't know what you had in mind, but I hope you're happy. I put myself on the line for you, my reputation, and you're making me look like an idiot.

  Betty Sizemore : What do you mean? What did I do to you?

  George McCord : Who put you up to this? Did my ex-wife do this?

  Betty Sizemore : David, please!

  George McCord : [yells]  Stop calling me that! My name is not David, My name is George! George! Say it! This is a TV show! A television show and if you really don't know the difference then you're more fucked up then I thought you were!

• George McCord : [in an angry tone]  You're not an actress, you're nothing but a soap opera groupie, aren't you? You have nothing better to do, do you? Well, why don't you get a fucking life, and stop ruining mine!

  [Betty slowly begins to come out of her fugue state and realizes she is on the set of "A Reason To Love"] 

  George McCord : She gave me this one shot, one shot in my life to do this, and you have destroyed it! Thank you very much! Thanks, Betty, that was great!

  [Betty is still in a daze as George is berating her in front of the cast and crew by singling her out, doing a pointing motion, while everyone is in shock at his behavior] 

  George McCord : She's fucking crazy! Don't look at me like that! You! tell them who I... Hey! Hey! Tell them who I am. Tell them.

  Betty Sizemore : George McCord

  George McCord : [sarcastically]  No, no. No, no, no. No, not now. I am David. I am Dr. David Ravell! I'm the great Dr. David Ravell, right? Loma Vista's greatest. I'm the doctor! I don't think that! She thinks that!

  [shocked at what has transpired] 

  George McCord : What?, Who did you call me?

  Lyla : She called you George... George!

• [Betty approaches George, Lyla and the rest of the "A Reason To Love" cast] 

  George McCord : Do I know you?

  Betty Sizemore : Of course.

  [giggling] 

  Betty Sizemore : Don't you remember?

  George McCord : [hesitantly]  I... I take it I should.

  Betty Sizemore : Silly! It's me!

  [looks at Lyla and the other two actors] 

  Betty Sizemore : We were engaged.

  Lyla Branch : You were engaged?

  George McCord : [shocked at what he heard]  I... I beg your pardon?

  Betty Sizemore : Letting you go, that was the biggest mistake of my life. And it's a mistake I've had to live with for six years, but I've put it behind me now. And I just hope that you can put it behind you, too. I've missed you. I've missed you, David.

  [George, Lyla and the other actors laugh at Betty when they realize she's quoting the lines from an episode of "A Reason To Love"] 

  Friend #1 : That's very nice.

  Lyla Branch : That was very good.

  George McCord : Greatly appreciate that. Wow. That was, wow!

  Betty Sizemore : The day I left you, I just drove and drove. I drove all day and all that night, I just kept driving. I stopped at this old country church, and the pastor let me in. And I sat...

  Lyla Branch : [interrupts]  ... In the very first pew, where we would have sat on our wedding day. I can't believe I remembered that! Although I mean I should, I wrote it. But that was seven years ago, and you're quoting it verbatim. I'm flattered I think, or frightened. One or the other.

• Rosa : This isn't fair, you know. Do you always get what you want?

  Betty : No, almost never.

  Rosa : But, you're in love with someone who doesn't exist. You come here, you meet this guy, who should laugh in your face, and instead you leave with him! Betty, you are one-of-a-kind.

• Rosa : Guess who I saw today?

  Betty : Who?

  Rosa : Dr. David Ravell.

  Betty : What? Where was he?

  Rosa : [angrily]  ON TELEVISION! Cut the shit, will you! Either you're making a fool out of me because you get off on it, or you got some serious problems. So which one is it, Betty?

  Betty : What are you talking about, Rosa?

  Rosa : I'm talking about Dr. David Ravell!

  Betty : I know, I heard you, but I...

  Rosa : [interrupts]  You have a thing for an actor on some stupid white soap opera and we searched all over town for his character! Not the actor, whose real name is George, by the way, but his character, Betty!

• Betty Sizemore : Where did you get it? That's so embarrassing.

  Darlene : On the goddamn Internet, where else?