White Mama (1980 TV Movie)

Bette Davis: Adele Malone

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• Adele Malone : [after receiving an eviction notice]  I ought to burn this place to the ground right now.

• Adele Malone : I'm being evicted from my home, and I don't know what to do.

  Father Gannon : Surely you've got relatives... friends?

  Adele Malone : Haven't anybody.

  Father Gannon : I see... Of course you've applied to Welfare.

  Adele Malone : I won't take Welfare. I'm not indigent. I'm not poor. I... I just run out of money.

  Father Gannon : Perhaps one of the women in the parish will take you in... at least for a time.

  Adele Malone : And then what? For thirty-five years, I've haven't missed a Sunday Mass. Every year, Easter duty. A dollar in every collection plate that was passed. And I come to you for help, and you tell me that "some woman in the parish" might take me in for a while?

  Father Gannon : In serious cases, I've been authorized to allocate fifty dollars...

  Adele Malone : I've no place to live!

  Father Gannon : Take the fifty dollars. It's what I can do.

• Adele Malone : [talking to B.T. Williamson]  You can be anything you want to be, if you're willing to work for it.