Change of Habit (1969)
Mary Tyler Moore: Sister Michelle
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Quotes
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Sister Irene : I think our neighbours are Catholic.
Sister Michelle : Yes, it's too bad they're not Christian.
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Sister Michelle : You certainly have a way with a compliment, doctor.
Dr. John Carpenter : It's Southern charm, we call it.
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Sister Michelle : You're the doctor?
Sister Barbara : You don't look like a doctor.
Dr. John Carpenter : Well, man doesn't live by bread alone, especially the kind of bread you make in a free clinic. John Carpenter, M.D.
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Sister Michelle : Don't you see, we can't be identified with the old order. If we're gonna reach these people, we've got be accepted first as women, then as nuns.
Sister Irene : Yeah, well, I think we're about to be accepted as women.
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Sister Michelle : Doctor, we were sent here by the Catholic Action Committee.
Dr. John Carpenter : Look, don't try to con me, honey.
Sister Michelle : We were given to understand that you were desperately in need of nurses.
Dr. John Carpenter : Well, that's my problem. It's got nothing to do with you chicks.
Sister Michelle : We are the nurses they sent!
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Dr. John Carpenter : The last three nurses who worked here couldn't take it. Two of them got raped. One even against her will.
Sister Michelle : We are very hard-nosed. Cute. But not hard enough.
Dr. John Carpenter : [touches Michelle's nose] Cute. But not hard enough.
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Dr. John Carpenter : Which one of you is in trouble?
Sister Michelle : I beg your pardon?
Dr. John Carpenter : Look, I know the whole story. You don't want to go to your family doctor uptown, so you figure you'd come here and get everything straightened out, right?
Sister Michelle : We were sent here.
Dr. John Carpenter : You came to the wrong place. 'Cause I won't do any more for you than I would any other kid who finds herself in the same fix. Whichever one of you is the lucky girl, follow me. I'll give you some vitamin pills and a diet sheet. Just try not to gain too much weight, especially in the first three months. All three of you? Uh, just out of curiosity, was it the same guy?
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Sister Michelle : I think she's autistic.
Amanda : Artistic? Nah. She don't even lift up a crayon.
Sister Michelle : No. Autistic. Sometimes, when a child's rejected very early in life, they crawl inside themselves and shut out the whole world as if they're trying to punish the rest of us along with themselves.
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Dr. John Carpenter : We celebrate by having a drink.
Sister Michelle : Oh, we don't drink.
Dr. John Carpenter : We don't drink?
Sister Michelle : Well, uh, what I mean is - a little wine, occasionally.
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Sister Barbara : Ah, Sisters, why don't you go on to the Clinic without me. Please tell Dr. Carpenter I'll be there as soon as I can. I have a rendezvous with destiny at the Ajax Market.
Sister Michelle : Sister Barbara!
Sister Barbara : I know, order and discipline, Well, I'm being wilfully disobedient.
Sister Irene : That is called doing your own thing.
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Sister Irene : I must have said a million Hail Marys to get out of a neighborhood just like this. I suddenly realize how safe I felt in my habit.
Sister Michelle : We argued that out before. It's just a symbol of authority, like a policeman's uniform.
Sister Irene : Yeah, well, you never see a policeman getting mugged.
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Sister Michelle : We're gonna live the way other people live and dress the way they do. For once in our religious lives, we're not going to be different.
Sister Irene : There's a lot to be said for being different.
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Sister Michelle : We're not what you think we are.
Rose : Sure, and they're calling themselves "massosies" now. I read it in the Enquirer.
Lily : We don't want any monkey business around here, I'm warning ya. We have friends at the precinct.
Sister Michelle : Well, we want to be friends too.
Rose : Call Father Gibbons. He'll want to know what's coming into his parish now. And tell him one of em's black as the ace of spades!
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Sister Barbara : If you don't like my noodle ring, you should have accepted Dr. Carpenter's invitation to dinner. I would have.
Sister Michelle : That'll be five 'Hail Marys'.
Sister Irene : Nuns and men don't mix.
Sister Barbara : Oh, I think he's cute.
Sister Irene : Fifteen.
Sister Barbara : Honest. He's groovy.
Sister Irene , Sister Michelle : Twenty-five.
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Sister Michelle : Rage reduction? I'd rather try patience and love.
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Dr. John Carpenter : What do you know? We're finally alone.
[moves closer]
Sister Michelle : John, uh, please don't.
Sister Michelle : I get the feeling there's a message here. Like maybe there's somebody else?
Sister Michelle : You - could say that, yes.
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Sister Barbara : Well, me for the sack.
Sister Michelle : And me for the sack cloth and the ashes.
Sister Barbara : Church?
Sister Michelle : I've got to talk to somebody.
Sister Barbara : Oh, you're not going all the way uptown to the convent at this hour.
Sister Michelle : No. We have a church right here in the neighborhood.
Sister Barbara : Father Gibbons? He will burn you at the stake.
Sister Michelle : Ah, not exactly an apostle of the Ecumenical Movement.
Sister Barbara : Ah, no. More The Inquisition.
Sister Michelle : But still a Priest.
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Sister Michelle : Father, we've done nothing to be ashamed of.
Father Gibbons : Men in your rooms. Late parties. Profane music until all hours. Forsaking the habit was one thing, but now you're not even dressed like females.
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Sister Michelle : It's from Barbara. What's an 'infrastructural sphere of mechanistic behaviorism'? Do you think she's a Communist?
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Sister Michelle : Mother Joseph, the worst is over.
Mother Joseph : Or yet to come.
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Sister Michelle : This is Amanda. She's a little shy with strangers. Sometimes she likes her puppet to do the talking for her.
Robbie : Hello, dear. And what is your name?
Amanda : My name is Irene. When little white girls was playing with dolls I was praying I could be somebody. And not just another nigger in the street.
Robbie : Oh, dear.