The Gilded Age (TV Series)
Heads Have Rolled for Less (2022)
Taissa Farmiga: Gladys Russell
Quotes
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Gladys Russell : I suppose you bought him off. And if he took it, he wasn't worthy of me. That's what Mother will say.
George Russell : Don't be too hard on the boy. I made it tough for him to refuse.
Gladys Russell : I just wish I knew the reason.
George Russell : Because your mother believes that you have more to come than marriage to a banker in Manhattan.
Gladys Russell : What's wrong with that?
George Russell : Nothing. It's not special.
Gladys Russell : Father, I'm not special. Why can't she see it? I'm ordinary. I'm just an ordinary person who wants an ordinary life.
George Russell : No, my darling. You are not in the least ordinary. On that point, your mother and I are as one.
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Gladys Russell : You're one of the most successful men in the country. With real estate and steel and copper and coal and oil and railroads that are the envy of the world, and you can't stand up to your wife?
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Caroline 'Carrie' Astor : The fact is, I have a very difficult mother.
Gladys Russell : Well, I know what that's like.
Caroline 'Carrie' Astor : Your mother could not possibly be as difficult as mine.
Gladys Russell : No? My mother keeps me under house arrest. I'm allowed no friends. God forbid I should speak to a man.
Caroline 'Carrie' Astor : Why has she let you come here?
Gladys Russell : My brother persuaded her. But she'll regret it, and I'll pay.
Caroline 'Carrie' Astor : Shall I come and visit you? I could bring you a cake with a file in it.