The Gilded Age (TV Series)

Face the Music (2022)

Cynthia Nixon: Ada Brook

Quotes 

• Ada Brook : Of course you're joking, but you make me tremble.

  Cornelius Eckhard : I know better. Miss Ada Brook would never tremble. She'd always fight for any cause she believed in.

  Ada Brook : You may have confused me with my sister.

• Ada Brook : Oh, look. Miss Russell is going out.

  Marian Brook : With her wretched governess. How can she stand it?

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I will not criticize Mrs. Russell for her only virtue. At least she keeps her daughter under control.

  Marian Brook : Under arrest, more like.

• Agnes Van Rhijn : Anyway, Eckhard had no money, which did not endear him to Papa. No money and no prospects.

  Ada Brook : I'm afraid not.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : I wonder what he wants now.

  Marian Brook : He's lonely. He's just arrived in the city, and he hopes to find some old friends.

  Agnes Van Rhijn : So all this time, he's dreamed of seeing Ada again?

  Ada Brook : There's no need to be unkind.

  Marian Brook : Maybe he has dreamed of seeing Aunt Ada. What's wrong with that?

• Marian Brook : It seems mad to me not to take Mrs. Russell's money when she has so much of it to give.

  Ada Brook : Well...

  Marian Brook : Or Mrs. Chamberlain's, for that matter, whatever her past.

  Ada Brook : You may have a point when it comes to Mrs. Russell but not with Mrs. Chamberlain.

  Marian Brook : No? They say she's very rich, too, and that she has a real interest in charitable causes.

  Ada Brook : It may be so, but there are limits.