Estelle Getty credited as playing...
Sophia Petrillo
- 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.
- [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!
- Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: So Ma, what did you do today?
- Sophia Petrillo: The same thing I do every day, I bought a nectarine.
- 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!
- 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.