Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003)

Arieh Elias: Grandfather Bar-Dayan

Quotes 

• Grandfather Bar-Dayan : [to Ruhama in reference to Doron]  He takes money from Shlomi without asking.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : [busy getting ready for work]  He'll pay him back.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : He never pays him back. I do!

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : Then everything's all right, right?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Shlomi's your son, too, not only Doron.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : Do me a favor and butt out.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : You discriminate between them. All that talk about his kidneys. He's been healthy for five years now. Enough of your excuses, Ruhama.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : Bardavan, I have a double-shift today, so don't bug me. I'm warning you.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : What'll you do? Throw me out like you did to Robert? Don't forget, this is MY house! You may be my daughter-in-law - and I love you like a daughter - but there's a limit to every limit.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : What?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : There's a limit to every limit.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : What does THAT mean?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : That there's a limit to every limit.

  Ruhama Bar-Dayan : Stop it!

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Don't yell at me! I was yelled at enough in my life!

• Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Monsier Shalom, get out of here.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : What?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Take the money I put aside for you and get out of here.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : What money?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Twenty shekels for every meal you fixed. Fifteen shekels for a bath, ten shekels for a shampoo.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : You're dreaming again, Grandpa.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : The money's in our book and don't worry about me. I'll be leaving soon, too.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : Grandpa, stop it.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : [as he falls asleep]  Go, join the partisans, go up into the mountains, take over Tokyo before its too late. Take over Tokyo...

• Grandfather Bar-Dayan : [noting Shlomi's sullenness]  Who's the girl who broke your heart? Listen to me: girls are like buses - if you miss one, another one will come along. Girls are like mirrors: you see yourself, your dimples and your pimples.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : I thought girls were like busses.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Like busses, like mirrors, like nooses - the tighter the knot, the harder you get.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : What?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Yeah. Men getting hanged have a hard-on. That's science.

  [Grandpa turns back to gazing out the window - his favorite past-time] 

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : What do you keep looking at?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : The sky.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : Why?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Sometimes it's blue, sometimes it's clear. There are clouds, stars, lightning, many things. They each do their own thing and don't get in each other's way.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : What's gonna happen to you, Grandpa?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : What do you mean?

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : If I go away.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : Where to?

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : To school, for instance.

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : School's good. I'm all for that.

  Shlomi Bar-Dayan : But what about you? Who'll give you a bath and feed you?

  Grandfather Bar-Dayan : What do you care? Why do you have to butt in on everything? If you close your eyes, will the sky come falling down? I have news for you - it won't. And you, Shlomi, find your mirror and get on your bus and stop worrying about me. I've been worried about enough in my life.