The Golden Girls (TV Series)
The Operation (1986)
Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo
Quotes
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Sophia Petrillo : Do you have any idea how much it hurts a mother to see her child in pain? Worse than the 22 hours of labor...
Sophia Petrillo , Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : It took to bring you into this world. Worse than the burns I got working nights as a fry cook to put you through college. Worse than...
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Alright Ma, I'll have the surgery, you win, but you don't play fair.
Sophia Petrillo : That's why I always win.
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Sophia Petrillo : I'm just here for moral support.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I already got plenty of that from my roommate.
[turns over and finds Bonnie's bed empty]
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh she's gone! And I never thanked her.
Sophia Petrillo : Relax, she's not the Lone Ranger, she'll be back, I sent her to the cafeteria to get me a sandwich.
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Sophia Petrillo : So Dorothy, you don't want to go back to the hospital?
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : No.
Sophia Petrillo : You don't want the doctor to operate?
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : No.
Sophia Petrillo : Fine, then we'll do it here. Blanche, boil some water and clear the table. Rose, sharpen my Ginzu knife. Dorothy, pick out a shoe you'd like to bite on.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : You're not serious!
Sophia Petrillo : No, I'm only being as ridiculous as you.
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Sophia Petrillo : I'm knitting a cover for the sherry.
Rose Nylund : Why do we need a cover for the sherry?
Sophia Petrillo : Not the sherry here at the house, the sherry I take to the park. You drink out of a brown paper bag and suddenly everybody's your friend.
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Blanche Devereaux : I think this is a lovely hospital room, don't you think it's lovely, Rose?
Rose Nylund : It's very lovely... I just can't help but think of how many people have never left this room.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Where are they, Rose, hiding in the shower?
Sophia Petrillo : She means a lot of people probably croaked in here.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I know what she means, but I don't need to hear it the night before my operation.