Sylvia Fine quotes from The Nanny

Sylvia

I can't believe [Niles] quit. It's so sad. I can still smell his chicken cacciatore. It's like when you lose a limb and swear it's still there.

Fran

I don't know about these straps, Ma. You look like a ham.

Sylvia

The salesgirl said I look like a dream.

Fran

Maybe Oscar Mayer's.

Sylvia

She should choke on her commission!

Fran

Look, Ma, she's standing on his shoes. Isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen?

Sylvia

Adorable. Go cut in!

Sylvia

It's the worst blizzard in 30 years.

Fran

Oh God! Did Kathie Lee come into the studio?

Sylvia

No.

Fran

It's bad.

Yetta

(commenting on Brighton and Grace) These kids. They got nothing from you!

Sylvia

Mom, these are not Fran's children. Fran doesn't have any children. She's not married. SHE'S ALL ALONE!!!

Fran

Louder, Ma. I don't think they heard you IN URUGUAY!!!

So, ladies, what brings you to therapy?

Fran

I came because my mother has an obsession with me getting married.

Sylvia

I came because my daughter has a delusion that I have an obsession.

Yetta

I came because they brought me and I don't know how to get home from here.

Fran

Ma, you have nothing to do with this!

Sylvia

I have nothing to do with my daughter's boss's daughter's sweet sixteen?

Sylvia

Fran, you're probably wondering why I'm acting so strange.

Fran

Ma, you've been here for two seconds. You yelled, you ate. The only thing strange is that you haven't showed me a wedding announcement from a girl I went to high school with.

Sylvia

It's in my purse.

Sylvia

You know I don't like to be filmed when I'm eating.

Fran

Which is why there's more footage of Bigfoot than of her.

Fran

Ma, I can't believe Gracie doesn't want to be seen with me.

Sylvia

Honey, it's a normal thing for a kid to go through. Remember when you suddenly didn't want me to pick you up from school?

Fran

Yeah, but I don't wear a girdle on the outside of my pants.

Fran

Mr. Sheffield is going through a mid-life crisis and I don't know how to pull him out of it.

Sylvia

Marry him.

Fran

How's that gonna help him?

Sylvia

Who cares? Better we should be happy.

Shhh!

Sylvia

Calm down, it's in Hebrew. What, are you afraid you'll miss something?

Niles

Would you like some more, Sylvia?

Sylvia

What, did we just meet?

Sylvia

[In tears] It's times like this you look up to God and ask: "Why? Why?!"

We can't ask why, Sylvia. It's nature. It's random. It's...

Sylvia

No! Why don't you marry my daughter?

Fran

Ma, I met this man at Danny's funeral.

Sylvia

Fabulous! He's Jewish?

Fran

Yeah, and a doctor.

Sylvia

Oh!

Fran

And he's gay.

Sylvia

So you seeing him again?