Hannah Mandelbaum Quotes in Crossing Delancey (1988)

Hannah Mandelbaum: Ya look, ya meet, you try, you see. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it don't.

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.