Big Business (1988)

Lily Tomlin: Rose Shelton, Rose Ratliff

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Quotes 

• 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!

• 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!

• Sadie Ratliff : That's what the French call a bidet.

  Rose Ratliff : Well, those French must be taller than me.

• 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.

• Rose Shelton : I hate my job... I hate shopping... I hate New York in June. How about you?

• Judy : [assuming she is speaking to Rose Shelton]  Hi, Rose, how's Duke doing?

  Rose Ratliff : Duke! My dog? Boy, when you go snoopin' into people's lives you don't miss a trick do you?

• Rose Ratliff : [after giving a speech]  And I've said my peace. Amen!

• 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.

• Rose Ratliff : Is a frog's ass watertight?

• 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!