The Nanny (TV Series)

Fran's Roots (1997)

Daniel Davis: Niles

Quotes 

• C.C. Babcock : [Arrives, upset at airport delays]  What hack travel agent booked that flight?

  Niles : Hi, I'm Niles!

  [Salutes] 

  Niles : Fly me!

• Chastity Claire 'C.C.' Babcock : [to Maxwell]  I have a friend at CBS who wants to buy our show and turn it into a TV series.

  Niles : Whoa, back up. You have a friend?

• [Sylvia, distraught over the prospect that Fran may have been switched at birth, has come over to the Sheffield house to confront Fran and Mr. Sheffield in the kitchen. Fran is trying to calm her teary mother down] 

  Fran Fine : [gently ushering Sylvia to a chair]  Ma, you're very upset. Do you want some pudding?

  Sylvia Fine : [crying]  Why does everyone think I only respond to food? My heart is breaking!

  Niles : [Niles enters the kitchen with a document; business-like]  Ah Sylvia, You're here! Ms. Babcock just faxed over this contract. Hollywood wants to make a movie about your daughter and her two mothers.

  [Sylvia wails and cries. Niles takes no notice and places the paper and a pen in front of her] 

  Niles : We need your John Hancock right here.

  Maxwell Sheffield : Niles! Can't you see Sylvia is distraught? My God, the poor woman turned down pudding!

  Sylvia Fine : [Sylvia stops crying and looks at Mr. Sheffield]  When did I turn it down?