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Ron Orbach in The Golden Girls (1985)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Sophia's Choice

The Golden Girls

Estelle Getty credited as playing...

Sophia Petrillo

Quotes6

  • Administrator Cummings: Problems, problems! The world is bringing me problems! And you are?
  • Sophia Petrillo: We are the world
  • Sophia Petrillo: Why do we let things like this happen? Why can't we take care of our elderly like they do in Japan? WHY are there 17 sets of hooters on the coffee table!
  • Blanche Devereaux: Those are mine, Sophia.
  • Sophia Petrillo: Oh, well let me put on my big "surprise face"!
  • Sophia Petrillo: [Rose mistakes the wrong woman for Lillian] That's not Lillian!
  • Rose Nylund: You said you were Lillian!
  • Woman: You think I'm in here because I'm good with names?
  • John Gale: Okay, let's fill this out.
  • Sophia Petrillo: Uh, please.
  • John Gale: And you are?
  • Sophia Petrillo: Sophia. Sophia Pe- Hawkins.
  • John Gale: OK, Mrs. Pehawkins, um... Maybe you can tell me a little bit about your mother's history?
  • Sophia Petrillo: Picture it. Sicily, 1900. An olive-skinned woman sets sail for the new world.
  • John Gale: I was talking about her medical history.
  • Sophia Petrillo: So was I. You think that was a pleasure cruise? There was smallpox, scurvy, typhoid. And that was business class.
  • Sophia Petrillo: [Rose brings an elderly black couple while looking for Lillian] Rose, what the hell is going on? I ask for Lillian, you bring me Eubie Blake's parents!
  • Sophia Petrillo: [enters the kitchen] Hello, what's shakin
  • Rose Nylund: apparently Blanches breasts, that's why she's going to...
  • Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: Shut-up Rose

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