The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Transplant (1985)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Sophia : You gonna give it to her or not?

  Blanche Devereaux : Sophia.

  Sophia : What'll it mean, a little less bourbon?

  Virginia Hollingsworth : Sophia, it's a difficult decision.

  Sophia : She's family, if you can't count on family, who the hell can you count on?

• Rose : Wherever she goes, she always finds a man!

  Sophia : So do hookers.

• Rose : What would you do?

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : For my children, I'd give both my kidneys, I'd cut them out myself.

  Rose : Me too, I'd give my heart.

  Sophia : I give to all my children, except Phil.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Why not Phil?

  Sophia : Because he never calls, he never writes, I only hear from him at Christmas when he sends me a cheddar cheese nativity scene. I'm Catholic, I can't spread a wise man on a Ritz cracker.

• Rose : Sophia, if you hated your sister would you clean the house?

  Sophia : I'd put Vaseline on the tips of her walker!

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, can you eat quietly?

  Sophia : These are Fritos, what do you want me to do, swallow them whole?

• Sophia : I wish I could give her one of my kidneys, let her get up all night.

• Rose : [talking about diapers]  Remember when we had to use cotton and fish oil?

  Sophia : In Sicily they used a leaf and the river.

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, you never had a baby in Sicily.

  Sophia : I *was* a baby in Sicily.

• Sophia : [to Virginia]  I'd offer you one of my kidneys but I think you'd rather have one you can control.