The Golden Girls (TV Series)
The Monkey Show (1991)
Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak
Quotes
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Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : It's so hard to dress for a psychiatrist. You wear black, they think you're depressed. You wear red, they think you're angry.
Blanche Devereaux : You wear a negligee, they think you want to sleep with them.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Why aren't you arrested more?
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Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, what are you doing?
Sophia Petrillo : Filling sandbags, Dorothy, there's a hurricane a-comin'.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : A-comin'?
Sophia Petrillo : That's right. People only use the "a-" when a really big storm is a-comin' or a-brewin',
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, the weather report said nothing about a hurricane.
Sophia Petrillo : Ida Perlberg down at the Senior Center woke up this morning with a leg cramp. Need I say more?
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Yes.
Sophia Petrillo : Dorothy, when you get around my age, two things happen: one, you get more intuitive about the weather; and two, corn becomes your enemy.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, even if there is a hurricane a-comin...
Sophia Petrillo : Don't patronize me.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : I'm not patronizing you, I'm a-mockin' you.
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Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : In every relationship, there are always times when you don't want to be with each other. I mean, Stan and I went through a period when we had no marital relations at all. I totally cut off his sex.
Rose Nylund : You mean it grows back?
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Blanche Devereaux : [Dorothy has just returned from her last therapy session with former husband Stan] Oh, you're back from your session early. Was it as cathartic as you thought?
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Well, I don't know if "cathartic" is the word.
Rose Nylund : You should do what I do. I find if I repeat a word that's confused me, I look smarter than I really am. Like, "Was it cathartic? Oh, I've had a catharticism. 'Course, I'm not the type to kiss and catharterize."