Nurse Betty (2000)

Allison Janney: Lyla

Quotes 

• 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.

• George McCord : What about my feelings about all this?

  Lyla Branch : I don't really care about your feelings. I did like your icy-water idea the other day, though.

  George McCord : Yeah?

  Lyla Branch : I'm toying with the idea of killing David Ravell off in a boating accident.

  George McCord : One of those castaway deals with Chloe and...

  [Lyla shakes her head no, implying her intentions of writing George's character off the show if he doesn't meet her request to bring Betty back] 

  George McCord : No, no, no. No. Don't... Don't try the blackmail bullshit with me, Lyla, cause it's kinda... it's beneath you. So don't even think about it. It's an emphatic no, missy. Poom! End of story, right there.