Nobody's Fool (1994)

Jessica Tandy: Miss Beryl

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Quotes 

• Miss Beryl : Doesn't it bother you that you haven't done more with the life God gave you?

  Sully : Not often. Now and then.

• Miss Beryl : Do you still bet on that horse race of yours?

  Sully : What, the trifecta?

  Miss Beryl : Yes. Has it ever come in?

  Sully : Not yet.

  Miss Beryl : But you still bet on it.

  Sully : Well, sure. I mean, the odds have gotta kick in sooner or later.

  Miss Beryl : Fine. That's exactly the way I feel about you.

• Miss Beryl : Mr. Sullivan, you're wearing a necktie. Are you in trouble with the law again?

• Sully : [quoting]  Beware the chains we forge in life.

  Miss Beryl : I don't suppose you remember who said that?

  Sully : *You* did Miss Beryl, all through 8th grade.

• [first lines] 

  Miss Beryl : Mr. Sullivan.

  [banging on ceiling] 

  Miss Beryl : Mr. Sullivan. God just took out Mrs. Gruber's bird bath!

  Miss Beryl : [to her husband's picture]  He's getting closer Clive. Last year it was the street light at the end of the block, now it's Mrs. Gruber's bird bath. I think God's zeroing in on me. I have the feeling this is the year he lowers the boom.