The Cosby Show (TV Series)
Mrs. Westlake (1986)
Sonia Braga: Anna Maria Westlake
Quotes
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Clair Hanks Huxtable : [obviously addressing Mrs. Westlake] I love your accent. Where are you from?
Jack Westlake : I'm from Indiana.
Anna Maria Westlake : That's why I marry him. I love the way he talks!
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[At dinner, Mrs. Westlake is sharing about her struggles, working two jobs while going to college and not being native to the U.S]
Jack Westlake : Tell them what you did on the weekends!
Anna Maria Westlake : I drove a taxicab!
[everyone laughs]
Anna Maria Westlake : One day, this man gets into my cab and says, 'I need to get to the airport, and step on it!' I say, 'you want me to step on the airport?'
[more laughs]
Anna Maria Westlake : Then he says, 'I need to get there in a jiffy!' I say, 'this is not a Jiffy, this is a Yellow Cab!'
[more laughs]
Clair Hanks Huxtable : So, did that man make it to the airport?
Jack Westlake : Yes, but I missed my flight!
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Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : On the first day of school, Theo came home with his face like this and said to me 'Dad, the thing I was most afraid of in my whole life happened today. I got Mrs Westlake for math. And on the first day she gave us homework!'.
Anna Maria Westlake : And what about the second day? I knew he had not done his homework because when I asked for volunteers to go to the blackboard I saw him trying to hide behind the student in front of him.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : Ah, yes, I used to do that in biology class.
Anna Maria Westlake : [cynically] It doesn't work.
Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable : [regretfully] I know.