Jean Stapleton: Edith Bunker

Quotes 

• Mike Stivic : I'm sorry to get you out of bed.

  Edith Bunker : Oh that's all right, we was only sleeping.

  Archie : [Annoyed]  You don't have to explain to him whatyacall our private-cies there... .What if we wasn't sleepin? Would you give him a rundown on all the frolics?

• Archie Bunker : Wait a minute, we don't wanna know what happened there. Don't tell us what happened, we don't want to know. Tell him we don't give a damn what happened, right?

  Edith Bunker : Right. What happened, Mike?

• Archie Bunker : Where the hell is going to sleep, with Teresa?

  Edith Bunker : No, Teresa can sleep in our bed.

  Archie Bunker : Up against you or up against me?

  Edith Bunker : Oh no, see, Archie, you'll sleep in Teresa's bed in Mike's old room and I'll ask Teresa to come and sleep with me in our bed in our room, and Mike will sleep on the cot in Teresa's room which used to be Mike's room where you'll be sleeping. See, you won't have to sleep up against nobody, see?

  Archie Bunker : If I could figure that one out, I'd be sleeping up against a straightjacket.