Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Norma Crane: Golde

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Quotes 

• Tevye : [in song]  Do you love me?

  Golde : [speaking]  I'm your wife!

  Tevye : [speaking]  I know!

  [in song] 

  Tevye : But do you love me?

  Golde : [singing]  Do I love him? For twenty-five years I've lived with him, fought with him, starved with him. Twenty-five years, my bed is his...

  Tevye : Shh!

  Golde : [singing]  If that's not love, what is?

  Tevye : [singing]  Then you love me!

  Golde : I suppose I do!

  Tevye : Oh.

  [sings] 

  Tevye : And I suppose I love you too.

  Tevye , Golde : [singing]  It doesn't change a thing, but even so... After twenty-five years, it's nice to know.

• Perchik : Your daughter has a quick and witty tongue.

  Tevye : Yes, the wit she gets from me, as the good book says...

  Golde : The good book can wait, it's time for Sabbath.

  Tevye : The tongue she gets from her mother.

• Tevye : In the middle of the dream, in walks your grandmother Tzeitel, may she rest in peace.

  Golde : Grandmother Tzeitel? How did she look?

  Tevye : Well, for a woman who's dead 30 years, she looked very good.

• Golde : Oh, you're finally here. Come, let's go home now.

  Tevye : I want to see Motel's new machine.

  Golde : You can see it some other time. Let's go home now.

  Tevye : Quiet, woman, before I get angry! Because when I get angry, even flies don't dare to fly!

  Golde : [sarcastically]  I'm very frightened of you. After we finish supper I'll faint.

  Tevye : [angrily]  Golde, I am the head of the house! I am the head of the family! And I want to see Motel's new machine NOW!

  [He looks inside then closes the door] 

  Tevye : Now, lets go home.

• [about Yente, the matchmaker] 

  Tzeitel : But Mama, the men she finds. The last one was so old and he was bald. He had no hair.

  Golde : A poor girl without a dowry can't be so particular. You want hair, marry a monkey.

• Tevye : [singing]  Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?

  Golde : [singing]  I don't remember growing older. When did they?

• Tevye : Swipe the floor?

  Golde : [agitated]  I DON'T want to leave a dirty house!

• Yente : From such children come other children!

  Golde : Motel is nothing! Yente, you said you had news for me...

  Yente : Ah, children, they are your blessing in your old age. My poor Aaron, God rest his soul, couldn't give me children. Between you and me, Golde, he hardly tried.

• Golde : [about Tevye]  You can die from such a man!

• Golde : Tevye! Tevye!

  Tevye : What is it?

  Golde : It's Chava. She left home this morning, with Fyedka.

  Tevye : What?

  Golde : I've looked everywhere for her. I even went to the priest. He told me they were married.

  Tevye : Married?

  Golde : Yes.

  Tevye : Well... Go home, Golde. We have other children at home. You have work to do, I have work to do, go home.

  Golde : [anguished]  But Chaveleh!

  Tevye : Chava is dead to us! We'll forget her.

  [gently] 

  Tevye : Go home. Go home, Golde.

  [Golde walks away, crying] 

• Golde : You'll be late.

  Tevye : Golde, I won't be late.

  Golde : You'll be late.

  Tevye : I won't be late! I won't be late! If you ever stop talking, I won't be late!

• Tevye : [annoyed]  We'll be staying with Uncle Avram! We'll be staying with Uncle Avram! The whole world has to know our business!

  Golde : [shouts]  Stop yelling and finish packing! We have a long way to go!

  Tevye : Golde! I don't need your advice! Tzietel, don't forget the baby!

• Golde : [about Anatevka after being evicted]  It's just a place.

  Mordcha : And our forefathers have been forced out of many, many places at a moment's notice.

  Tevye : Maybe that's why... we always wear our hats.

• Golde : A husband is not to look at, a husband is to get.

• Yente : Out of the whole town, he's cast his eye on Tzeitel.

  Golde : My Tzeitel?

  Yente : No, the Tzar's Tzeitel! Of course your Tzeitel!

  Golde : Such a match for my Tzeitel!

• Golde : But Tevye wants a learned man. He doesn't like Lazar.

  Yente : Good, so Lazar won't marry him. He wants the daughter, not the father.