The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Never the New (2022)

Carrie Coon: Bertha Russell

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• Bertha Russell : If you're going to do a thing, you might as well do it properly.

• Bertha Russell : It's beginning. I knew it would. Persistence is the key to everything. Patience and persistence.

• Bertha Russell : Careful, that table belonged to King Ludwig of Bavaria.

  George Russell : He had it once. I've got it now.

• Larry Russell : She's not a child anymore, and you shouldn't treat her as one.

  Bertha Russell : She's a child until I say.

• George Russell : What about your old friends? You never see them now.

  Bertha Russell : I don't want my old friends. I want new friends.

• Bertha Russell : She seems to know as few people as I do.

  Aurora Fane : Oh, I think she knows a good many of the women here.

  Anne Morris : They just don't want to know her.

• Bertha Russell : I've decided to give an at home.

  George Russell : And what does that mean?

  Bertha Russell : You know perfectly well. I'll send cards saying we'll receive after dinner on such and such an evening, and they're welcome to look in.

• Bertha Russell : I don't think we should be afraid of new things or new people.

• Bertha Russell : George, we have to start somewhere. Everyone calls on Mrs. Vanderbilt now. They're seen everywhere.

  George Russell : What's that got to do with it?

  Bertha Russell : When his grandfather arrived in New York, no one would go near him.

  George Russell : That was half a century ago. What are you saying? We have to keep this up for 50 years, and then someone may drop by?

  Bertha Russell : Things move faster nowadays.

  George Russell : That's a relief.

• George Russell : I'd just like you to be happy. And I know my loving you is not enough.

  Bertha Russell : It's almost enough.

• George Russell : I wish you'd invited some of the old crowd. The house will be full of strangers.

  Bertha Russell : We're headed in a different direction now, George. We're joining a different club.

  George Russell : Mm. Even if they don't want us to be members?

  Bertha Russell : Why shouldn't we be members? I'm tired of letting all those dull and stupid women dictate the way we live our lives. Why, you've done more for this city in ten years than their families have achieved in centuries.

• George Russell : Things are changing, Bertha.

  Bertha Russell : They can't change fast enough for me.

• Bertha Russell : Take out the chrysanthemums. I said specifically, no chrysanthemums.

• Bertha Russell : But why must I be the enemy?

  Stanford White : Well, that's easy. They have been in charge since the Mayflower landed, and now it's your turn, because you are the future, and if you are the future, then they must be the past. That's what frightens them.

• George Russell : And you've come a long way. Even I can see that.

  Bertha Russell : I don't want to come a long way. I want to go all the way.

• George Russell : What was it your mother used to say? 'You are the only one of my children who is worthy of my dreams.'

  Bertha Russell : Much good did those dreams do her. She had nothing while she lived and nothing when she died.

• Kowalski : We've finished the gilding in the ballroom, Mrs. Russell.

  Bertha Russell : No, you think you have finished the gilding, Mr. Kowalski, but nothing is finished till I decide.