- Trudy Frank: Because of me, you lived here, rent-free, for years.
- Billie Frank: Mother, I was a child!
- Trudy Frank: An ungrateful one.
- Trudy Frank: A drink without liquor? Oh, what's the point?
- Billie Frank: How about, driving your car legally, or maybe remembering your name... Or, not pursuing a liver at the age of fifty.
- Trudy Frank: Fifty? I beat the odds.
- Billie Frank: [asking for an advance] Hey, Siddy Sid Sid... you're like the mother I never had.
- Sidney Gibson: Forget it.
- Billie Frank: Now you're like the mother I have.
- Billie Frank: Alright, alright, I admit it. I'm a fiscally irresponsible, emotionally unstable, former drunk. But that shouldn't *no way* prejudice your decision to maybe, you know, hopefully give me an advance?
- Sidney Gibson: An advance? You don't earn the money I pay you.
- Billie Frank: May I confide in you as a friend?
- Sidney Gibson: No.
- Billie Frank: Fine. Then as an acquaintance.
- [she sighs and sits]
- Billie Frank: You know, lately, my life has been really crappy. Yeah... haven't had sex in over months, my landlord is raising my rents!
- Sidney Gibson: So sleep with him.