On Borrowed Time (1939)
Beulah Bondi: Nellie - Granny
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Quotes
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John 'Pud' Northrup : Aunt Demetria is a pismire! Aunt Demetria is a pismire! Aunt Demetria is a...
Nellie - Granny : Julian!
Julian Northrup : I never taught him that.
Nellie - Granny : You're a liar.
Julian Northrup : Maybe I am.
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Julian Northrup : [takes a drink out of a bottle] Don't never touch this stuff, son.
John 'Pud' Northrup : Give me some?
Julian Northrup : No. No. Come on, let's get goin'.
Nellie - Granny : [calling from the kitchen] junior!
John 'Pud' Northrup : Just a little taste.
Julian Northrup : No you wouldn't like it.
John 'Pud' Northrup : What do you drink it for Gramp?
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Nellie - Granny : Pud, take that filthy thing off the table.
John 'Pud' Northrup : They're only worms, Grandma.
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Nellie - Granny : That boy's beginning to be the limit. First thing you know, you'll be teaching him how to smoke, I suppose, and then drink and goodness knows what all.
Julian Northrup : Well, there'll be plenty of time for the what all.
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Nellie - Granny : When you two get together you're as deaf as a post.
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Julian Northrup : She's a narrow-minded, trouble-making, blue-nosed, old pismire. And you know it.
Nellie - Granny : She's a decent, self-respecting woman.
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Nellie - Granny : Oh, I've got that gas again. Every time I get excited - it starts.
Julian Northrup : Well then, don't get excited, then.
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Julian Northrup : Still mad at me, Nellie? Well, I like to see you best that way. Eyes all shinin'. That's when your prettiest.
Nellie - Granny : Oh, fiddlesticks. Julian Northrup, don't you try to soft soap me. I was down right ashamed of you this morning - you and that boy. I don't know which is the dirtiest.
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Demetria Riffle : Has my little boy brought a great big kiss for his Aunt Demi, today?
John 'Pud' Northrup : No.
Nellie - Granny : Now, Pud, you give Aunt Demi a nice kiss.
John 'Pud' Northrup : She kisses awful wet.
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Demetria Riffle : If they carry on like that in public, what must they do when they're alone?
Nellie - Granny : Why, Demi, maybe they just - kiss.
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Demetria Riffle : How's your gas?
Nellie - Granny : Oh, it feels a little quieter.
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Nellie - Granny : Julian don't mean all the things he says. He's just a rough-spoken man is all. Good lookin' man too, in his day. I remember him at a party when the old century went out, handsome as anything. Everybody was after him.
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Nellie - Granny : See here, what call of you to come buttin' into a lady's bedroom?
Mr. Brink : I usually come to bedrooms. It's so much more comfortable.
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Marcia Giles : Shall I turn off the radio, Mrs. Northrup?
Nellie - Granny : No, dear. They're playing Stephen Foster's tunes. I'm hoping they'll play "Beautiful Dreamer." That's my favorite.