My Brilliant Career (1979)

Aileen Britton: Grandma Bossier

Quotes 

• Grandma Bossier : I shall make quite sure my granddaughter will never marry a man unworthy of her. Don't worry.

  Sybylla : I don't. I'm not marrying anyone. I'm going to have a career!

  Grandma Bossier : A career? What in?

  Sybylla : Oh, literature, music, art. Maybe, the opera. I've not made up my mind yet.

• Uncle Julius : She should be an actress.

  Grandma Bossier : [disgustedly]  Are you suggesting my granddaughter should be an actress?

  Uncle Julius : She has a talent for it! I can introduce her to...

  Grandma Bossier : *Go* on the stage? I'd rather see her with her hair shorn off and shut up in a convent! Don't *ever* mention the subject again.

• Sybylla : I was approached by one of them today. A very ill mannered sort. While I was picking blossoms.

  Grandma Bossier : Goodness dear!

  Sybylla : He was very forward. He wanted to kiss me.

• Grandma Bossier : From what I hear, Julius, last night was little short of a bacchanalian debauch!

  Uncle Julius : What? Who told you that, Mother? Ask Helen?

  Grandma Bossier : She has one of the sick headaches.

• Grandma Bossier : Well, now that this fellow, Harry, has gone, you should pay some heed to my attentions.

  Sybylla : Do you mean attentions or your intentions?

• Grandma Bossier : You may not be prepared yet to apologize to Frank; but, I expect you apologize to *me* - when you have regained your - humor - and your manners.