The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Feelings (1990)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Sophia Petrillo : I can't believe I have a daughter who threw a priest out the door.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Ma, you have relatives who threw priests out of windows.

  Sophia Petrillo : That was business!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche is telling me about Freud.

  Sophia Petrillo : Why are you askin' her? I'm the one who slept with him.

  Blanche Devereaux : Sophia this is serious, honey. According to this book, if Rose doesn't confront Dr. Norgan, she could take her hostilities out on us.

  Sophia Petrillo : Tunnels. He loved to drive through tunnels!

• Sophia Petrillo : Dorothy, you're home from school.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, Ma, do you realize you've said the same thing to me just that way ever since I was in the 3rd grade? That's sweet.

  Sophia Petrillo : t's not sweet, it's pathetic. Fifty-two years, and you never stopped off anwhere. Get a life! So, did you teach anybody anything today?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Well, I tried, but it seems none of the kids are interested in learning how to diagram sentences. I really don't get it. I mean, am I the only one who thinks diagramming sentences is fun?

  Sophia Petrillo : You talk like this on dates, don't you?

  Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy, you're a substitute. Your job isn't actually to teach.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Then what is it?

  Blanche Devereaux : To keep the kids from burning the school down before the other teacher gets back.

• Rose Nylund : I wish men would have breasts, just for one day. Then they'd know what it's like to be judged by some physical trait. I mean, just because I'm built like this, you wouldn't believe how many people think I'm dumb.

  Sophia Petrillo : Rose, you're too hard on yourself. I know people who think you're dumb over the phone!

• Sophia Petrillo : [reading the Classified ads in the kitchen]  Blanche, I'm tryin' to decide what to get Dorothy for her birthday. What do you think about this? "Good-looking, single, white male, seeks fun times on a regular basis."

  Blanche Devereaux : Well, it's somethin' she doesn't have.