Dolores Claiborne (1995)

Judy Parfitt: Vera Donovan

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• Vera Donovan : Sometimes, Dolores... sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch, to survive... Sometimes, being a bitch, is all a woman has to hang onto.

• Vera Donovan : Husbands die every day, Dolores. Why... one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here, weeping... They die, and leave their wives their money... I should know, shouldn't I?... Sometimes they're driving home from their mistress's apartment, and their brakes suddenly fail. An accident, Dolores, can be an unhappy woman's best friend.

• Vera Donovan : It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.

• Vera Donovan : Well, don't look to me, Dolores... All my money is tied up in cash.

• Vera Donovan : [while Dolores is crying in front of Vera]  I insist that all women who have hysterics in my drawing room call me by my Christian name.

• Dolores Claiborne : [sobbing]  Why? Why'd you do this, Vera?

  Vera Donovan : Because I hate the smell of being old.

• Vera Donovan : Don't we have a hair across our ass this morning, Dolores Claiborne?

• Vera Donovan : [Vera is ringing a bell]  Doloooress!...

  Dolores Claiborne : Hell's bells. Look who's up.

• Vera Donovan : I want my china pig!

  Dolores Claiborne : Which one? There's only about two-hundred of 'em.

• Vera Donovan : [to Dolores, who is hanging her sheets to dry]  Six pins, Dolores! Six pins, not five!

• Vera Donovan : Think what fun you'll have telling all your friends what a bitch Vera Donovan is!

• Vera Donovan : Don't you just love the Bossa Nova? I found them in New York and simply had to have them.