The Golden Girls (TV Series)
Empty Nests (1987)
Rita Moreno: Renee Corliss
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Quotes
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[the girls' friend and neighbour Renee is worried that her doctor husband spends too long at work and doesn't have much time for her]
Blanche Devereaux : Talk to your husband.
Renee Corliss : Blanche, at the hospital they call him St. George! I'm married to a saint and I'm gonna tell him to work less, I'm lonely?
Sophia Petrillo : Dont you think St. Francis of Assisi's wife had a similar problem? Don't you think she said, "Frank, enough donkeys"?
Renee Corliss : So what do I do? Ask George to cut back on his practice because I don't want to eat alone?
Rose Nylund : Oh no, don't do that. I couldn't possibly go to another doctor.
Renee Corliss : See?
Rose Nylund : George is the only man to ever see me naked.
Blanche Devereaux : Get outta here.
Rose Nylund : Well, except for Charlie, of course.
Blanche Devereaux : Get outta here.
Rose Nylund : And the vet.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : The vet?
Rose Nylund : Our prize hen, Henrietta, had some kind of a chicken disease. I don't exactly know what it was.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Chickenpox.
Rose Nylund : No, I don't think so. Anyway, I had an earache so he saw us both at the same time.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : For that you got naked?
Rose Nylund : I thought that was strange, too.
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Renee Corliss : Dorothy, it's crazy, but I feel like, how can I bother him? He's doing all this important stuff. Saving lives. And I'm gonna bother him because I'm a little unhappy?
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Renee, Jenny just left for college. All your kids are gone. This is a perfectly legitimate problem.
Rose Nylund : It's the "Empty Nest" syndrome. When I had it, I didn't know what it was. I was just very depressed. By the time I figured out what it was, I was gonna tell Charlie, but he died that night.
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Renee Corliss : At two in the morning, waiting for George to come home, I called a radio talk show. I gave them the solution to the crisis in the Middle East.
Rose Nylund : [excited] Giving the Palestinians Greenland?
Renee Corliss : [delighted] You heard it?
Rose Nylund : I didn't know that was you. You were great!
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [after a pause to let it sink in] Giving the Palestinians Greenland?
Renee Corliss : It's a big place. Nobody uses it.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : You would take a desert people and put them in the ice and snow?
Rose Nylund : With the proper clothes, they'll be fine.
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Renee Corliss : [Last lines] I love you.
George Corliss : I love you too, sweetheart.
Renee Corliss : George?
George Corliss : Hmm?
Renee Corliss : Promise me one more thing.
George Corliss : What?
Renee Corliss : Promise me you'll never die...