Birds of America (2008)

Lauren Graham: Betty Tanager

Quotes 

• Betty Tanager : She is not staying here.

  Morrie : Calm down.

  Betty Tanager : Calm down? We don't need to put Jay in an institution. This is already an institution. My god!

  Morrie : She'll just stay here until we talk to Jay and clear things up.

  Betty Tanager : Whoa, clear what? We're fucked! We're totally fucking fucked! How many years have we been kissing their asses, and for what? I mean, did you see their faces as they ran for cover? We're pariahs. We're totally fucked. Fucking pariahs.

  Morrie : Okay, the big issue right now is Jay.

  Betty Tanager : No, no! The issue is me, for once. It's me. I don't even know how many eggs I have left.

  Morrie : Eggs? Oh.

  Betty Tanager : Oh, god. Look at you. It's the last thing on your mind.

  Morrie : Calm down.

  Betty Tanager : No, I'm not calming down. I am going to Nancy Kennedy's and i'm going right now, and I do not want you to try to stop me or try to change my mind so shut up.

  Morrie : Are you...

  Betty Tanager : Shut up! I'm taking the car!

• Laura : [after Morrie has defecated on her lawn]  I don't blame you but... someone needs to clean that up. I need you or Morrie to clean it up, please. In the next ten minutes.

  Betty Tanager : Fuck off, Laura.

  Laura : What?

  Betty Tanager : You clean it up.

  [Betty walks all over her flowers] 

  Laura : Oh no.

• Morrie : Paul and Laura got a dog. And it relieves itself on our lawn many times a day.

  Jay : Did you say anything?

  Morrie : Can't.

  Betty Tanager : Can't do anything we'd like to, really. Not yet.

  Morrie : Paul is one of the faculty members who recommended me for tenure.

  Betty Tanager : And he's on the board of regents. And he golfs with the Provost.

  Morrie : And I need his support.

  Jay : No, that's not what you need.