The Golden Girls (TV Series)

A Midwinter Night's Dream (1992)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Sophia Petrillo : Leap year, full moon, the curse!

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Come on Ma, it's the 90s. Call it what it is: our monthly visitor.

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : [hearing about their village witch]  What "village"? I was born in Brooklyn.

  Sophia Petrillo : Here's a newsflash, witches can fly.

• Sophia Petrillo : I have to kiss a fool to save Dorothy from the curse.

  Blanche Devereaux : So why don't you kiss Rose and get it over with?

  Sophia Petrillo : Technically Rose isn't a fool, she's a simpleton.

  Blanche Devereaux : What's the difference?

  Sophia Petrillo : How can I explain it... Fools read Dear Abby, simpletons read Ann Landers. It's a fine line.

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : You invited 15 men and no women.

  Blanche Devereaux : Dorothy I know what you're thinking, but Rose and Sophia will be here, you'll have somebody to talk to.

  Sophia Petrillo : No fair, I had to talk to her the last time.