Big Business (1988)
Bette Midler: Sadie Shelton, Sadie Ratliff
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Quotes
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Sadie Shelton : Is this how we dress for the office? You look like a blood clot!
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Sadie Shelton : Do you want one of the board members to see you? They'll say you're a sniveling, hysterical, pre-periodic twit!
Rose Shelton : I have a right to my own feelings Sadie and I am not a twit. I may be pre-periodic and I may be hysterical. So what?
Sadie Shelton : So there are drugs for those things, and we make most of them!
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Sadie Ratliff : You're in America now. Speak American.
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Sadie Shelton : My God it's me with a bad haircut.
Sadie Ratliff : Bad? I paid twelve bucks for this.
Rose Ratliff : I am gonna kick your ass!
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Sadie Ratliff : That's what the French call a bidet.
Rose Ratliff : Well, those French must be taller than me.
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Rose Shelton : I had other plans this evening.
Sadie Shelton : I know what your plans were, to hold up in your room and make love to the pastry cart. Now put down the éclair and get down there.
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Sadie Shelton : Oh my God, how did I get so fat? I look like a walleyed salmon! What did he use a wide angle lens?
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Sadie Ratliff : I hate men who smell like beer and bean dip... and makin' love in the back of recreational vehicles!
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Sadie Shelton : I don't see how is it that you, my own sister, can stuff your face and nothing happens and I subsist on 60 calories a day or else blow up like a Macy's Day float!
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Sadie Shelton : What fantasy is this? Are we hearing voices now like Joan of Arc?
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Sadie Shelton : The most fiscally prudent action at this point is to take an aggressive posture and divest ourselves of Hollow-o-Made. It's a little backwards furniture factory. They actually still make porch rockers. Now, the opportunities for expansion are virtually nil and the buyer has offered us a most attractive price. So, you can see gentlemen, that were we to liquidate Hollow-o-Made; the return on our investment would; in fact, be... quadrupled.
Rose Shelton : Well, the liquidation. I mean aren't there other considerations? May I make a point? I'm sitting, listening here and what I'm feeling... ah... deeply inside. I... I mean what, what it is, I. Things are just not computing exactly right. I mean I'm sorry.
Sadie Shelton : Gentlemen, help yourself to danish.
[walks over to Rose]
Sadie Shelton : How many times have I told you not to talk about things which you don't understand.
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Sadie Ratliff : I wann say things like... .Keep the change.
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Sadie Shelton : [Rushing to the elevator] Hold the door. Hold the door! Hold the door!
[turns around and walks away after door closes in her face]
Sadie Shelton : Moron!
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Sadie Ratliff : Isn't it exciting?
Rose Ratliff : Oh yeah, the noise, the smog, the crowds, the muggers, sex fiends, white slavers, politicians, it's a pistol. I got about as much use for it as a toad has for spit curls!