My Favorite Year (1982)

Lainie Kazan: Belle Steinberg Carroca

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Quotes 

• Benjy Stone : Bring Alan Swann to Brooklyn?

  Belle : Well, why not? What are you ashamed of?

  Benjy Stone : Everything!

• Belle : Before your beloved father passed away - and eventually died, he said to me, "Belle, after I go, get someone to be with. Someone nice. A pal."

  Benjy Stone : So you went out and found a Filipino batamweight named Rookie Carroca?

• Belle : Something to drink before dinner?

  Swann : Some soda water.

  Belle : [yelling into the kitchen]  Rookie, a glass of seltzer!

  Rookie Carroca : [yelling back]  Pick it up!

• Belle : I behalf of everyone here, I would like to welcome you to our humble chapeau!

  Benjy Stone : Two years at the Sorbonne, she still gets it wrong.

• Belle : Al...

  Benjy Stone : Ma...

  Belle : What?

  Benjy Stone : It's not Al. If I bring Capone or Jolson, then it's Al.

  Uncle Morty : Jolson's coming?

• Belle : Do you hear what you started here?

• Belle : Mr. Swann...

  Swann : Alan, please. And what may I call you?

  Belle : How 'bout, yours?

• Belle : Alan, your seltzer. A little liver?

• Belle : Shame on you, Swannee.

  Swann : Yes, you're right Belle. Shame on me, in deed.