The Golden Girls (TV Series)
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? (1990)
Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo
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Quotes
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Sophia Petrillo : [Sophia has joined a convent] Hello, Reverend Mother. My you look 'Holier than Thou' today.
Mother Superior : Save it, Sister Suckup. How do you explain this note I found in the suggestion box?
Sophia Petrillo : Well, you said we needed more money for the new chapel. I thought that would be a good fund-raiser.
Mother Superior : A beefcake calendar of monks of the Midwest?
Sophia Petrillo : Oh, come on, open up your mind.
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Sophia Petrillo : I've always had a dream, a very private dream, one I never talked about. When I was growing up, I wanted to join the convent. Well, until I was seventeen.
Rose Nylund : What happened then?
Sophia Petrillo : [to Dorothy] Your father put his hand in my blouse.
Blanche Devereaux : So?
Sophia Petrillo : So, I felt soiled, filthy, dirty. You know, in love.
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Dorothy Zbornak : Sister, is it all right if I sit in? I don't think my mother would mind.
Sophia Petrillo : Think again!
Dorothy Zbornak : I'd go outside, but there don't seem to be any SHADY PINES to sit under.
Sophia Petrillo : [recognizing the threat] Pillow, pussycat?