Maude (TV Series)
Maude's Reunion (1977)
Bea Arthur: Maude Findlay
Quotes
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Vivian Cavender Harmon : [revealing her gift to Maude] This is the New York Times Maude, from the day you were born.
Maude Findlay : [pushing the paper away] Oh, isn't that nice.
Vivian Cavender Harmon : Look, look at it. Here, look.
[reading some of the details]
Vivian Cavender Harmon : Calvin Coolidge was president.
Maude Findlay : [laughing uncomfortably] Calvin Coolidge.
Vivian Cavender Harmon : Rudyard Kipling has written new book!
Maude Findlay : [becoming irritated] NEW book!
Vivian Cavender Harmon : Sirloin steak, twelve cents a pound! You know that this is over HALF A CENTURY old! I mean this is an antique! Look at it. It's all yellow and cracked...
Maude Findlay : [snapping] VIVIAN!
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Carol Traynor : Oh mother, listen to this. The day you were born, Vitaphone Studios signed Al Jolson for the first talking picture.
Maude Findlay : Oh my God, I was saying 'Mammy' three years before Al Jolson. I am old, I'm old, I am old. Olde. O-L-D-E. That's how old.
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Maude Findlay : [lamenting her age, as she considers attending a class reunion] I'm old! I'm O-L-D-E! That's how old!