The Golden Girls (TV Series)
The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo (1988)
Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo
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Quotes
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[Sophia is asking a store clerk for help in choosing the perfect nectarine]
Clerk : ...I never saw a more perfect piece of fruit.
Sophia Petrillo : No? Then try kissing my behind. It's a real peach!
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Sam : But I hate nectarines!
Sophia Petrillo : You gotta keep up your strength.
Sam : Sophia, it's no use, once they messed up my blood transfusion, there wasn't anything anybody could do.
Sophia Petrillo : Crazy talk, comes from not eating enough fresh fruit.
Sam : Sophia, nobody's ever beaten it.
Sophia Petrillo : But someday they will, and it could be tomorrow, and it could be you. I believe it, and you have to too, because in this life, that's all we have, is hope.
Sam : And a nectarine?
Sophia Petrillo : And a nectarine.
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Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : So Ma, what did you do today?
Sophia Petrillo : The same thing I do every day, I bought a nectarine.
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Sophia Petrillo : I'm going to the market to buy a nectarine. At 83 that's life, a round trip on the number 12 bus to buy a nectarine.
Rose Nylund : That's sad.
Sophia Petrillo : Not sad, life! Sad is when you have to mash the nectarine with a fork!
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Woman Shopping in Grocery Store : They giving you trouble too, Sophia?
Sophia Petrillo : Nah, I just can't pick a good nectarine, this way they do it for me.
Woman Shopping in Grocery Store : Why not ask for help?
Sophia Petrillo : You know who helps us? Boy scouts in cartoons, we have to look after ourselves.