Bubbie Kantor Quotes in Crossing Delancey (1988)

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: [Objecting to a surprise appointment with a matchmaker] Excuse me, but I don't know what you think you're doing.

Bubbie Kantor: First you'll listen, then you'll talk.

Hannah Mandelbaum: Very nice, very nice girl. She lives by her parents?

Bubbie Kantor: Naaaah, they live in Florida with Red Buttons. All the social security checks under one roof - you can have it.

Hannah Mandelbaum: So, Isabella, you got your own apartment?

Bubbie Kantor: Naaaaah, she lives alone in a room, like a dog. A dog should live alone, not people... a dog.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: It is not a room, it's an apartment, a very nice apartment. You know, you've been there, there's a bedroom, a bathroom...

Bubbie Kantor: Sure, with bars on the windows like a prison. Someone should crawl in at night I'm always thinking.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: Stop thinking.

Bubbie Kantor: [Izzy is cutting string from a package with a chef's knife] Bubbie: Gimme that, gimme that. You don't know how to open up a package. It's, it's good string you're wasting. Such, such nice, heavy paper. Something to save, Miss Fancy.

[last lines]

Bubbie Kantor: Take my arm, Sam. It's OK, you can touch me. A hundred and twenty pounds of pure gold, that's me. Come children, come, let's put the bubbie to bed.

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: [after opening Sam's package that includes pickles and a new hat] Bubbie, I'm being woo'd.

Bubbie Kantor: [in Yiddish] Vood? Vas is vood?

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: [ending a tirade about her Bubbie's constant efforts to fix her up with a man] It's not as if I'm discounting the possibility, but Bubbie, listen to me. I am not, repeat NOT holding my breath!

Bubbie Kantor: A professor once told me, a college professor "No matter how happy you are, if you're alone, you're sick!"

Isabelle 'Izzy' Grossman: [groaning in exasperation] OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!