Queen Bees (2021)

Ellen Burstyn: Helen Wilson

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• Helen Wilson : I mean, like, saving seats, cliques. They're like "Mean Girls" but with medical-alert bracelets.

• Sally Hanson : You could become one of us. You could sit at our table.

  Helen Wilson : I don't want to sit at your table. This isn't high school.

  Sally Hanson : You're right. It's worse. High school, we graduate. Here, we *die*--or we fight against it until our last breath.

• Helen Wilson : I'm gonna be gone in a month. Eh, moved out! Not dead.

• Helen Wilson : You know what, if we're going to play another game, I need a bathroom break.

  Margot Clark : Me too.

  Janet Poindexter : If you leave the table after the cards have been dealt, you forfeit.

  Helen Wilson : That's ridiculous!

  Janet Poindexter : Club rules.

  Sally Hanson : That's why I wear Depends.

• Woman with Walker #1 : Stay away from them. We call them the Queen Bs. Guess what the "B" stands for?

  Helen Wilson : Got it.

• Dan Simpson : How did you know my name?

  Helen Wilson : I like to know who my neighbors are--especially if they're Peeping Toms.

• Margot Clark : Ah, come on, be one of us.

  Helen Wilson : Well, who ever said I wanted to be one of you?

  Janet Poindexter : Why wouldn't you? We stick together. We sit together. We don't take crap from anyone.

  Margot Clark : *We* are the cool ones.

  Helen Wilson : Oh, do you have a dance number to go with that?

• Dan Simpson : OK, so, now I'm being the man and you're being the woman. You ready?

  Helen Wilson : That's hard to believe, but go ahead.

• Sally Hanson : We have got to live every day. Marijuana--totally almost legal. I got it from an orderly.

  Helen Wilson : Oh, good Lord.

  Sally Hanson : Do you want to get baked?

• Helen Wilson : We slept through that whistle? Maybe we're dead.

• Sally Hanson : You know what I hate?

  Helen Wilson : What?

  Sally Hanson : Sweaty under-boobs. Oh, I used to love my boobs. I mean, they were so nice and high. Now, they're at their final resting place.

  Helen Wilson : Oh, God.

  Sally Hanson : You don't have sweaty under-boobs?

  Helen Wilson : No! And if I did, I wouldn't talk about it.

  Sally Hanson : Oh. But, they're just so uncomfortable.

  Helen Wilson : Oh, God.

  Sally Hanson : I mean, you just can't wipe 'em and dry 'em off. You know, gotta *lift* them--and get under there and make a proper mop up. And then you have to *hold* 'em up so you can cool 'em off.

  Helen Wilson : Stop! Stop!

  Sally Hanson : So, I got me a ta-ta towel.

  Helen Wilson : Well, no. No, I don't want to know what a ta-ta towel is. Don't tell me.

  Sally Hanson : Ta-ta towel is: you wrap it around your neck--when you don't wear your bra, it holds up your boobs so you can get up under there, let 'em dry. And it's adjustable

  Helen Wilson : Well, it would have to be, wouldn't it?

  Sally Hanson : Keep 'em high, you keep 'em dry.

• Helen Wilson : Did we--sleep together last night?

  Sally Hanson : Oh, don't look so worried. That kind of experience is not on my bucket list.

• Helen Wilson : Did you have a favorite husband?

  Margot Clark : Number one stole my heart. He could charm the pants off of anybody--which was *exactly* the problem.

• Helen Wilson : Oh! God! I love shiatsu.

• Woman with Walker #1 : Will there be cheese balls?

  Woman with Walker #2 : If we're going to a party for that cow, there better be cheese balls.

  Helen Wilson : There will be cheese balls.

  Woman with Walker #2 : And nuts. I like nuts on my balls.

• Helen Wilson : I've got chocolate truffles and Merlot. Wanna take a walk on the wild side?

  Sally Hanson : Let's go crazy.

• [first lines] 

  Ken DeNardo : [answering phone call]  Pine Grove, this is Ken.

  Helen Wilson : Hello, this is Helen Wilson, at 227 Cosgrove. Would you repeat what I just said?

  Ken DeNardo : Helen Wilson, at 227 Cosgrove.

  Helen Wilson : Good. I just wasn't sure you could actually listen, because I've called this place at least half a dozen times requesting that you stop sending me your brochure.

  Ken DeNardo : Pardon?

  Helen Wilson : You know? Just, like, don't waste any more paper. Save on the postage, because I am not now, nor will I ever be at all interested in living in your swanky old people's home. Have you got that?

  Ken DeNardo : May I...

  Helen Wilson : Thank you. Goodbye.

• [Last lines] 

  Dan Simpson : I just wanted to grow old with you.

  Helen Wilson : You are old with me.

• Helen Wilson : I never thought of myself as "cool."

  Janet Poindexter : You're not. With us, you will be.