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Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore in Change of Habit (1969)

Jane Elliot: Sister Barbara

Change of Habit

Jane Elliot credited as playing...

Sister Barbara

Quotes7

  • Sister Michelle: You're the doctor?
  • Sister Barbara: You don't look like a doctor.
  • Dr. John Carpenter: Well, man doesn't live by bread alone, especially the kind of bread you make in a free clinic. John Carpenter, M.D.
  • Sister Barbara: Ah, Sisters, why don't you go on to the Clinic without me. Please tell Dr. Carpenter I'll be there as soon as I can. I have a rendezvous with destiny at the Ajax Market.
  • Sister Michelle: Sister Barbara!
  • Sister Barbara: I know, order and discipline, Well, I'm being wilfully disobedient.
  • Sister Irene: That is called doing your own thing.
  • Father Gibbons: I don't like underground nuns who wear bobbed hair and silk stockings.
  • Sister Barbara: Oh, but they're nylon, Father.
  • Sister Barbara: Thank you very much, sir.
  • Lily: A girl with a shape like yours can do better than two-bit winos.
  • Sister Barbara: If you don't like my noodle ring, you should have accepted Dr. Carpenter's invitation to dinner. I would have.
  • Sister Michelle: That'll be five 'Hail Marys'.
  • Sister Irene: Nuns and men don't mix.
  • Sister Barbara: Oh, I think he's cute.
  • Sister Irene: Fifteen.
  • Sister Barbara: Honest. He's groovy.
  • Sister Irene, Sister Michelle: Twenty-five.
  • Sister Barbara: Tell me, as a doctor would you diagnose what's happening today, the riots, the student unrest, as not really the death throes of an old order but the birth pains of a new one?
  • Dr. John Carpenter: I didn't know I was making a house call.
  • Sister Barbara: Oh, well, I mean, don't we all, each in our own way, have to man the barricades?
  • Dr. John Carpenter: At the Ajax Market?
  • Sister Barbara: Well, me for the sack.
  • Sister Michelle: And me for the sack cloth and the ashes.
  • Sister Barbara: Church?
  • Sister Michelle: I've got to talk to somebody.
  • Sister Barbara: Oh, you're not going all the way uptown to the convent at this hour.
  • Sister Michelle: No. We have a church right here in the neighborhood.
  • Sister Barbara: Father Gibbons? He will burn you at the stake.
  • Sister Michelle: Ah, not exactly an apostle of the Ecumenical Movement.
  • Sister Barbara: Ah, no. More The Inquisition.
  • Sister Michelle: But still a Priest.

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