Sally Field movie quotes

View Quote [Singing] Home, home in the 'burbs, where the cat and the squeak toy can play... where no traffic is heard, and I can maul birds, and sleep in the sunshine all day!

View Quote [After being dazed by Chance] Oh, I don't feel well... I am going to hurt you.

View Quote Cut the mush, get the grub!

View Quote Sebastian: What about Ariel? You just gonna abandon her, leave her to deal wit all dat we tangled her up in? You tink that small, weak, helpless little girl can do anything by herself? [Ariel smashes open door] Ariel?
Ariel: Come on Sebastian, let's go.
Marina Del Ray: As you can see, I - [raises chair to Triton's level] I'm a self starter, Your Majesty. Here to anticipate your every need! Not like that last guy, what was his name? Sooner we forget about him, the better. In fact! Let's make a vow, never to mention his name again. Here, I'll start! [claps hands over mouth] There! Wasn't that easy?

View Quote [Marina Del Ray and Benjamin came in the princesses' room]
Marina Del Ray: [first words] Uppy-uppy, my darlings.
Benjamin: [first words] It's us. [The princesses groan]
Ariel: [groans] Governess! [Then Marina takes the pillow from under Aquata]
Aquata: Hey!
Marina Del Ray: Rise and shine,
Aquata: Why so early?
Marina Del Ray: Mustn't be late.
Arista: But it's still dark out.
Aquata: Uh...
Arista: [sees now] Oh. Hi.
Benjamin: Wakey-wakey.
Adella: Oh, I was dreaming about a boy.
Marina Del Ray: Yes. Come on, girls.
Alana: But I need my beauty sleep.
Andrina: Time about it.
Alana: Easy for you. No one cares what you look...
Marina Del Ray: Move it.
Benjamin: I think you're lovely.
Andrina: Can't we meet Father later?
Marina Del Ray: Unfortanily, I don't get to make those kinds of decisions. [laughs] Any decisions kingdom, really. [Sees the girls go back to sleep again and anger] GET UP! [The girls rushed up and go to the mirrors] All right, all right, all right. Move your tails. This is our special time with your father.
Ariel: Special? It's the same every morning.
Andrina: Ah, she's got a point.
Marina Del Ray: That's what your father cares about. Predictability, presentation, punctuality.
Ariel: That's all Dad cares about.
Andrina: She's got a point.
Aquata: You've got your own mirror!
Benjamin: Two minutes.
Marina Del Ray: STOP PRIMPING! [They get ready as they talk, as Attina goes to Ariel]
Attina: Come on, Ariel.
Ariel: Why can't he let us do something different? Just once.
Attina: Give him a break. He's the king, remember? You try running a kingdom.
Ariel: I wouldn't run it like this.
Attina: Don't upset him, Ariel.
Ariel: Just because you're the oldest, Attina, doesn't mean you get to boss us around.
Attina: Yes, it does.
Marina Del Ray: Benjamin, if we're late again, I'll never get a promotion.
Benjamin: Marina...
Attina: Come on, girls.
Marina Del Ray: Not that I want a promotion. No, no, no, I love this job. Looking after you is what I live for. Really. [the girls leave and anger again] I hate this job!
Benjamin: The less said the better.

View Quote [We fade to stacks of meat and are picked up by a stick, which turns out to be Benjamin uses it to feed the locked up creatures]
Benjamin: Mm-hmm. Snacky-snack. [animals growling] OK. [moaning as the creatures ate the meat] No manners.
Marina Del Ray: This job is killing me!
Benjamin: Oh, dear.
Marina Del Ray: ​​​​If I have to watch over these spoiled princesses one more day, I'm gonna beach myself!
Benjamin: Mm-hmm.
Marina Del Ray: You should've heard that little clawboy Sebastian today. "You're late." [gibbering] IF TRITON WASN'T LOOKING, I WOULD HAVE SQUASHED THAT CRUSTACEAN INTO A CRAB CAKE!
Benjamin: Mm-hmm.
Marina Del Ray: [inhaling deeply] Maybe I'm just too sensitive?
Benjamin: Dip.
Marina Del Ray: Did you feed them today?
Benjamin: Yes. Twice.
Marina Del Ray: And the key? [He shows her the key around his neck, and he continues to shorten her nails] Ooh! That Sebastian! I despise him! I loathe him!
Benjamin: Never heard that one.
Marina Del Ray: How did that little invertebrate get to be chief of staff?
Benjamin: Chutzpah?
Marina Del Ray: I want that job. I deserve that job! So what if I'm late every once in a while and the girls are miserable?
Benjamin: Nobody's perfect.
Marina Del Ray: That's right. Nobody's... perfect. -
Benjamin: Oh... my.
Marina Del Ray: Everyone makes mistakes, even... him! [singing] ♪ Benjamin, I need to find a clue ♪
Benjamin: Or a good cuticle cream.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ To get myself Sebastian's job. To stage a little coup. A straw to break the camel's back. A teeny dent, a tiny crack. A quiver or a quake. What I need is one mistake ♪ OW!
Benjamin: Oh, so sorry!
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Just one mistake ♪
Benjamin: Now, color? Sardine Silver?
Marina Del Ray: No, thanks.
Benjamin: Orange roughy?
Marina Del Ray: Not in the mood.
Benjamin: Rainbow trout?
Marina Del Ray: Just paint them the shade of clarified butter! [singing] ♪ Sebastian, Oh, better be on his guard. ♪
Benjamin: So much for my samples.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Cause I have some electric chums. And they'll be looking very hard. A straw to break Sebastian's back! A teeny dent, a tiny crack! A dowdy double take! What I need is one mistake! ♪
Benjamin: Uno error.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Just one mistake Then... Hello, world! ♪
Benjamin: Oh, me.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ It's Marina Del Rey! ♪
Benjamin: That's right. Three names.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ I'm the new attach ♪
Benjamin: Ooh, French!
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Or maybe more Oh, I want so much more ♪
Benjamin: Big surprise.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Hello, world! I'm the belle of the ball! ♪
Benjamin: I'm feelin' it. Big wave!
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ I'm the greatest of all the loyal royal big shots! ♪ [shouting gleefully, grunts]
Benjamin: [moans]
Marina Del Ray: Mmm... [singing] ♪ Work it, Marina! Pouty, sassy! ♪
Benjamin: Pouty. Sassy.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ From the engine to the chassis! ♪
Benjamin: [singing] ♪ Oo-wah oo-wah ♪
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Got to, got to! ♪
Benjamin: [singing] ♪ Oo-wah oo-wah ♪
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ Get it, get it! Gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta, gotta HAVE IT!!!!!!! A straw to break the camel's back. A teeny dent, a tiny crack. A mini mighty break. What I need is one mistake. ♪
Benjamin: Mmm.
Marina Del Ray: [singing] ♪ And after that, who knows? ♪ Sebastian's bound to make a mistake, right?
Benjamin: Not likely.
Marina Del Ray: Dream killer! [she dips her nails into the bowl angrily]

View Quote Sarah Wylie: I need to know how to describe your relationship with Gallagher. Mac said to quote you directly. You can say whatever you want.
Megan Carter: Just... say we were involved.
Sarah Wylie: That's true, isn't it?
Megan Carter: No. But it's accurate.

View Quote Megan Carter: I am free every night this week but Friday.
Michael Gallagher: How about Friday?
Megan Carter: Okay!

View Quote Michael Gallagher: Why aren't you married?
Megan Carter: How do you know I'm not?
Michael Gallagher: I don't see a ring.
Megan Carter: Haven't you heard of women's lib?
Michael Gallagher: Most of them are ugly.
Megan Carter: Is that supposed to be a compliment?

View Quote Celeste Talbert: [accepting an award] Ohhh, there's so many people to thank. First of all, my fabulous supporting cast, who gives a new meaning to the word "support"...
[At their table]
Ariel Maloney: Bitch!
David Barnes: Hag!
Montana Moorehead: I hate her so much!

View Quote Celeste Talbert: [sobbing] And now you're back, and I've ruined three lives! Three lives! Me, America's Sweetheart! [sobbing louder] Oh, God...!
David Barnes: [checks that the cameras are still rolling] This is **** great!

View Quote David Barnes: I was under orders.
Celeste Talbert: So - was - Hitler! Oh, no, I don't mean Hitler, I mean the other guy, the other one.
David Barnes: Himmler.
Celeste Talbert: No, no, no.
David Barnes: Hess.
Rose Schwartz: Eichmann.
David Barnes: Eichmann.

View Quote Nicole: [in the American Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy] My name is Nicole Adjamian.
Betty: Yes. Betty Mahmoody. This is my daughter, Mahtob.
Nicole: Please do sit.
[They all sit down]
Betty: Thank you. We're so glad to see you. I spoke with my mother in the United States and I know that the State Department is into this. We're just very happy to be here. We'll sleep anywhere for as long as it takes until you can get us out.
Nicole: [confused] What are you talking about? You cannot stay here.
Betty: I can't go back to my husband. I want to go home to the United States.
Nicole: That may be, but you are in Iran. You are married to an Iranian?
Betty: Yes.
Nicole: Then you are an Iranian citizen.
Betty: No. No I'm not. I'm an American citizen and my daughter is an American citizen. We were born in the United States. We have American passports. I mean, we don't have them with us. My husband has them. We've never changed our citizenship.
Nicole: If you marry an Iranian man, you automatically become an Iranian citizen. The laws regarding women are very strict. You cannot travel anywhere without written permission. You have no rights to the children. They go to the man in a divorce. I'm sorry, but you will have to go back to your husband.
Betty: [on the verge of tears] But we'll never get out of Iran. We're being held hostage. It was almost impossible to come here.
Nicole: Mrs. Mahmoody, there are many American women here in similar circumstances. [pauses] May I ask you why you came to Iran?
Betty: [pauses] I don't know. I don't know. I was afraid to come. [sniffles] I wanted to please him. I trusted him. I was frightened to come, but I never thought this would happen. I thought of him as an American. He's changed. Oh God, he's changed.
Nicole: Look, Mrs. Mahmoody. Many came back after the Revolution feeling guilty about being away, about turning their backs on Iran and on Islam. Now Iran is an Islamic State and that's a wonderful thing for many Iranians. Well, if there is anything I can do, maybe if you need to organize telephone calls to the U.S. or if you want to write letters home, let me know.

View Quote Moody: I don't know how to say this to you. We're not going back. We're staying here.
Betty: [pauses] What do you mean? How long?
Moody: I want to get a job here in a hospital.
Betty: What?
Moody: I want us... to live in Iran.
Betty: [softly] No... No...
Moody: There's nothing for me in America.
Betty: No... What? Are you crazy? We're Americans. Your daughter's an American! Moody, honey, you're upset about your job. I understand that. We're going to go back today and we're going to fix it.
Moody: I want Mahtob to grow up here.
Betty: [increasingly angry] No!
Moody: I think she should become a Muslim!
Betty: [screams] No! No! [pauses] You lied to me. You lied to me! You held the Koran and you swore to me that nothing was going happen. You were planning this all the time. You lied to me!

View Quote Betty: My father's ill. He could be dying. I have to go and see him.
Houssein: I don't think your father would have wanted you to go back if it meant losing your daughter.
Betty: Why can't I go and see him, come back, and leave later with Mahtob?
Houssein: You can't leave Mahtob here, not with Moody's family. They're from the provinces, and this regime only encourages them. There are some people who consider a girl ready for marriage at nine years of age. Child brides are not unknown.

View Quote Abraham Lincoln: [describing a dream] It's nighttime. The ship's moved by some terrible power, at a terrific speed. Though it's imperceptible in the darkness, I have an intuition that we're headed towards a shore. No one else seems to be aboard the vessel. I'm very keenly aware of my aloneness. I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. I reckon it's the speed that's strange to me. I'm used to going a deliberate pace. I should spare you, Molly. I shouldn't tell you my dreams.
Mary Todd Lincoln: I don't want to be spared if you aren't. And you spare me nothing. Perhaps it's the assault on Wilmington Port. You dream about the ship before a battle, usually.
Abraham Lincoln: [rapping lightly on his forehead] How's the coconut?
Mary Todd Lincoln: Beyond description. Almost two years, nothing mends. Another casualty of the war. Who wants to listen to a useless woman grouse about her carriage accident?
Abraham Lincoln: I do.
Mary Todd Lincoln: Stuff! You tell me dreams, that's all, I'm your soothsayer, that's all I am anymore, I'm not to be trusted with — Even if it was not a carriage accident, even if it was an attempted assassination.
Abraham Lincoln: It was most probably an accident—
Mary Todd Lincoln: It was an assassin. Whose intended target was you.
Abraham Lincoln: How are the plans coming along for the big shindy?
Mary Todd Lincoln: I don't want to talk about parties. You don't care about parties.
Abraham Lincoln: Not much, but they're a necessary hindrance.
Mary Todd Lincoln: I know... I know what it's about. The ship, it's not Wilmington Port, it's not a military campaign! It's the amendment to abolish slavery! Why else would you force me to invite demented radicals into my home? You're going to try to get the amendment passed in the House of Representatives before the term ends? Before the inauguration?
Abraham Lincoln: [standing] Don't spend too much money on the flubdubs.
Mary Todd Lincoln: No one's loved as much as you, no one's ever been loved so much, by the people. You might do anything now. Don't, don't waste that power on an amendment bill that's sure of defeat. [she turns away, walking to an open window.] Did you remember Robert's coming home for the reception? [Lincoln nods] I knew you'd forget. That's the ship you're sailing on. The Thirteenth Amendment. You needn't tell me I'm right. I know I am.

View Quote Mary Todd Lincoln: You think I'm ignorant of what you're up to because of this you haven't discussed this scheme with me as you ought to have done? When have I ever been so easily bamboozled? I believe you when you insist that amending the Constitution and abolishing slavery will end this war, and since you are sending my son into the war, woe unto you if you fail to pass the amendment.
Abraham Lincoln: Seward doesn't want me leaving big muddy footprints all over town.
Mary Todd Lincoln: No one has ever lived who knows better than you, the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths. Seward can't do it. You must. Because if you fail to acquire the necessary votes, woe unto you, sir. You will answer to me.

View Quote Abraham Lincoln: He'll be fine, Molly. City Point's away back from the front lines, and fighting, he'll be an adjutant running messages for General Grant.
Mary Todd Lincoln: The war will take our son! A sniper, or a shrapnel shell. Or typhus, same as took Willie, it takes hundreds of boys a day! He'll die, uselessly, and how will I ever forgive you? Most men, their firstborn is their favorite. You...you've always blamed Robert for being born, for trapping you in a marriage that's only ever given you grief and caused you regret!
Abraham Lincoln: That's simply not true.
Mary Todd Lincoln: And if the slaughter of Cold Harbor is on your hands same as Grant, God help us! We'll pay for the oceans of spilled blood you've sanctioned, the uncountable corpses we'll be made to pay with our son's dear blood.
Abraham Lincoln: Just...just this once, Mrs. Lincoln, I demand of you to try and take the liberal and not the selfish point of view! Robert will never forgive himself, can you imagine he'll forgive us if we continue to stifle this very natural ambition?!
Mary Todd Lincoln: [smiles mockingly] And if I refuse to take the high road, if I won't take up the rough old cross, will you threaten me again with the madhouse, as you did when I couldn't stop crying over Willie, when I showed you what heartbreak, real heartbreak looked like, and you hadn't the courage to countenance it, to help me...
Abraham Lincoln: That's right. That's right. When you refused so much as to comfort Tad...
Mary Todd Lincoln: I was in the room with Willie, I was holding him in my arms as he died!
Abraham Lincoln: ...a child who was not only sick, dangerously sick, but beside himself with grief! Oh, but your grief! Your grief! Your inexhaustible grief!
Mary Todd Lincoln: How dare you throw that up at me?!
Abraham Lincoln: And his mother wouldn't let him near her...
Mary Todd Lincoln: I couldn't let Tad in! I couldn't risk him seeing how angry I was! [Mary starts crying]
Abraham Lincoln: ...'cause she's screaming from morning to night pacing the corridors, howling at shadows and furniture and ghosts! I ought to have done it, I ought have done for Tad's sake, for everybody's Goddamned sake, I should have clapped you in the madhouse!
Mary Todd Lincoln: Then do it!! Do it! Don't you threaten me, you do it this time! Lock me away! You'll have to, I swear, if Robert is killed.
Abraham Lincoln: [pauses] I couldn't tolerate you grieving so for Willie because I couldn't permit it in myself, though I wanted to, Mary. I wanted to crawl under the earth, into the vault with his coffin. I still do. Every day I do. Don't... speak to me about grief. [he pauses again] I must make my decisions, Bob must make his, you yours. And bear what we must, hold and carry what we must. What I carry within me, you must allow me to do it, alone as I must. And you alone, Mary, you alone may lighten this burden, or render it intolerable. As you choose.

View Quote Mrs. Doubtfire: He was quite fond of the drink. It was the drink that killed him.
Miranda: How awful, he was an alcoholic?
Mrs. Doubtfire: No, he was hit by a Guinness truck, so it was quite literally the drink that killed him

View Quote Miranda: Oh my god! oh my god! The whole time? The whole time? THE WHOLE TIME?! I have to go. We have to leave now. We have to go. I have to leave. We have to leave.

View Quote Daniel: How about we take a vacation, take the kids, get you away from work, you'll see that you're a different person. You are. You're great.
Miranda: But our problems would be waiting for us when we got back.
Daniel: Well we'll move, and hopefully our problems won't follow us.
Miranda: Daniel, please don't joke. We're far apart. We're different. We have nothing in common.
Daniel: Sure we do. We love each other... We love each other... Don't we?
Miranda: I want a divorce.

View Quote Truvy: How you holdin up, honey?
M'Lynn: I'm fine.
Clairee: It was a beautiful service.
Ouiser: The flowers were the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen!
M'Lynn: They were beautiful.
Annelle: Miss M'Lynn, it should make you feel a lot better that Shelby is with her King.
M'Lynn: Yes, Annelle, I guess it should.
Annelle: Then we should all be rejoicing.
M'Lynn: Well you go on ahead!! I'm sorry if I don't feel like it! I guess I'm a little selfish. I'd rather have her here.
Annelle: Miss M'Lynn, I don't mean to upset you by sayin' that. It's just that when somethin like this happens, I pray very hard to make heads or tails of it. And I think that in Shelby's case, she just wanted to take care of that little baby, and of you, of everybody she knew. And her poor little body was just worn out. It just wouldn't let her do all the things she wanted to. So she went on to a place where she could be a guardian angel. She will always be young, she will always be beautiful. And I personally feel much safer knowin' that she's up there on my side [M'Lynn turns to face Annelle] It may sound real simple and stupid and...Well maybe I am, but, that's how I get through things like this.
M'Lynn: Thank you, Annelle. I appreciate that. And it's a real good idea. Shelby, as you know, wouldn't want us to get mired down and wallow in this. We should handle it the best way we know how…and get on with it. That’s what my mind says. I wish somebody’d explain to my heart.
Truvy: Drum says you never left her side for a second.
M'Lynn: No.. I couldn't leave my Shelby. I just sat there and kept pushin' the way I always have where Shelby was concerned.... I was hopin' she'd sit up and argue with me. Finally we realized there was no hope. They turned off the machines. [Pause] Drum left.. couldn't take it. Jackson left. [slight laugh] I find it amusin'.. men are supposed to be made outta steel or somethin. I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise. No tremble. Just peace. Oh God.. I realize as a woman how lucky I am! I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life.. and I was there when she drifted out of it. It was the most precious moment of my life... [sighs] I gotta get back. Has anybody got a mirror?
Truvy: Does anybody have a mirror? I don't know how you're doin on the inside honey…but your HAIR sure is holdin up beautiful.
M'Lynn: [looking in mirror, upset] Shelby was right! This IS a brown foot ball helmet!!!! [begins to cry]
Clariee: Ohh…honey are you okay?
M'Lynn: [crying] I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. [screaming] I'm fine! I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I'm so mad I don't know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know why Shelby's life is over! I wanna know how that baby will ever know how wonderful his mother was! Will he ever know what she went through for him? Oh God I wanna know why!! Why Lord, I wish I could understand! [in a firm tone] No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna hit somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard! [continues sobbing]
Clairee: Here! [grabs Ouiser by the shoulder and positions her in front of M'Lynn] Hit this! Go ahead M'Lynn, slap her!
Ouiser: Are you crazy?!
Clairee: Hit her!
Ouiser: Are you high, Clairee?!
Truvy: Clairee, have you lost your mind?
Clairee: We'll sell t-shirts sayin' I SLAPPED OUISER BOUDREAUX! Hit her!
Annelle: Miss Clairee, enough!
Clairee: Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn!
Ouiser: [gets out of Clairee's grip] Let go o' me!
Clairee: M'Lynn, you just missed the chance of a lifetime! Half o' Chiquapin Parish'd give their eye teeth to take a whack at Ouiser! [everyone, except Ouiser, starts laughing]
Ouiser: YOU ARE A PIG FROM HELL!! [Ouiser turns and walks away]
M'Lynn: Ouiser, don't leave!
Clairee: Ouiser! Ouiser, I was just kiddin'!! Come back!!
Annelle: [quietly laughing] Miss Clairee, that wasn't a very Christian thing to do.
Clairee: Oh, Annelle, ya gotta lighten up. [cut to Ouiser sitting on a bench, alone; Clairee tries to surprise her, but she steps on a twig, and Ouiser notices her]
Ouiser: Go away.
Clairee: Okay. All right, hit me, then. I deserve it.
Ouiser: You are evil and you must be destroyed.
Clairee: Mother Nature's taking care of that faster than you could.
Ouiser: Lloyd got a great deal of enjoyment at my expense when he was alive.
Clairee: Ouiser. You know l love you more than my luggage. [they start shoving each other]
Ouiser: All right. [they continue shoving each other] This is my bench! Get off my bench!! Get off my…[Clairee falls off the bench] Good, now sit!! You are too twisted for color T.V., Clairee. Have your roots done. [cut back to the Eatonton house, Jonathan and Tommy are playing basketball; Annelle is bringing some cups of coffee to Truvy and M'Lynn who are watching Jack, Jr. who is sitting on a blanket and playing with his toys]
M'Lynn: l shouldn't have gone on the way l did. l made everybody cry. I'm sorry.
Truvy: Oh, don't be silly. Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. Thanks, Annelle. [Annelle goes over to Jack Jr. to play with him]
M'Lynn: Maybe l should have an emotional outburst more often. Maybe l should start havin' them at home. Drum would be so pleased. [Clairee and Ouiser approach the other woman, and they've clearly made up]
Ouiser: I have feelins'.
Clairee: Of course you do.
Truvy: Well, l'm glad to see the two of you made up.
Clairee: Ouiser can never stay mad at me. She worships the quicksand l walk on. [Ouiser hugs M'Lynn]
Ouiser: M'Lynn, you're in my prayers, honey. [looks at a shocked Annelle] Yes, Annelle, I pray! Well, I do! There, I said it, I hope you're satisfied.
Annelle: I have suspected this all along!
Ouiser: Oh! Well don't you expect me to come to one of your churches! One of those tent-revivals with all those Bible-beaters doin' God-only-knows-what! They'd probably make me eat a live chicken!
Annelle: Not on your first visit!
Clairee: Very good, Annelle! Spoken like a true smart-ass! [Jack Jr. has Annelle's picture in his mouth]
Annelle: Oh, what are you doin? Are you eatin my picture? [Ouiser and Clairee approach Drum, who's talking to Sammy]
Drum: [to Sammy] Then I guess we can't talk about it. [Ouiser sticks her hand like a knife into Drum's back, as a sign of sympathy; Drum watches her walk away with Clairee; M'Lynn puts Jack Jr. into a tree swing]
M'Lynn: Let's get in the swing, shall we? Get our feets in there. There we go. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on!
Annelle: Miss M'Lynn, l don't know if this is the right time or place but l wanted to tell you that Sammy and l have decided if this baby's a girl we'd like to name it Shelby since she was the reason we met in the first place. If you don't mind.
M'Lynn: Shelby would love that. I'm tickled pink. [softly] Pink.
Truvy: Well, what are you gonna name it if it happens to be a boy? [Truvy looks down at Jack Jr. with a big smile]
Annelle: Shelby I guess.
M'Lynn: That's how it should be. Life goes on. [cut to a year later, parents are helping their children in the Easter egg hunt, including Jackson and Jack Jr. Annelle and Sammy approach the party; Sammy is wearing an Easter bunny costume]
Sammy: I've never been so uncomfortable in all my life!!
Annelle: We'll talk about uncomfortable when you're nine months pregnant, okay?
Spud: Go on now, keep those eyes closed, or I'm'a staple em shut!!
Truvy: They're closed!! What is it?!
Spud: Keep em closed!!
Truvy: Okay. Now?
Spud: Ready?
Truvy: Yep!
Spud: Keep em shut. Okay, open em up!!
Truvy: All right. [gasps when she sees Spud has opened a shop called Truvy's West, a new addition that connects with her beauty spot] l don't believe it! I'm a chain!! Oh, Spud!! [Truvy kisses Spud, then they hug. Cut Annelle, putting the head of the Easter Bunny costume on Sammy's head]
Sammy: Jesus!!
Annelle: Oh, lighten up!! Now you just burst through those bushes and hop over to where the kids are, okay?
Sammy: What bushes?! I can't see shit!!
Annelle: Over there!!
Sammy: "Over there!!" I'm an adult, ya know!! I'm not a 5-year-old!!
Jonathan: On your mark. Get set. Go!
Clairee: Okay, Jack, Jr. l'm gonna tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young gal named Shelby. And Shelby had a lovely, kind and wonderful good fairy named Clairee. But there was also a horrible, evil, ugly witch named Ouiser!!
Ouiser: I hate these stupid neighborhood things.
Owen: No one's twistin' your arm to keep you here.
Ouiser: Well, l have to be sociable.
Drum: Hey, Rhett's here! Let's connect the bald spots.
Ouiser: Drum. Eat, shit, and die! Hello, M'Lynn!
M'Lynn: Ouiser, Owen.
Drum: Good to see you too Ouiser, Owen. [Rhett starts barking at Drum] Come on, Rhett! Kill, kill!
Ouiser: Quit it, Drum. Stop eggin' him on!
Clairee: And everyone lived happily ever after. And the nasty, wicked, evil, wretched, horrible, mean Ouiser was never heard from again. Now, it's almost time for the Easter Bunny. Run on down!! [Ouiser sees Jack Jr., and kneels down to say "hi"]
Ouiser: [laughs] Hi, Jack! You remember me? It's your old pal Ouiser! [Jack Jr., having heard Clairee's story, gets scared, then starts to cry, then he hits Ouiser!; yells] Jack!!
M'Lynn: Just a second, it's Jackson.
Ouiser: Jack, come here!! [Jack Jr. runs away, looking for M'Lynn; she finds and picks him up]
M'Lynn: Oh, Jack!! Sweetheart…
Aunt Fern: Is he all right??
M'Lynn: Yes, he's all right. [Annelle stands up, when, all of a sudden, she feels herself going into labor]
Annelle: [groans] Oh, Truvy!!
Truvy: Oh, honey, it's okay. lt's okay. Women have babies every day. M'Lynn!
M'Lynn: Annelle…
Truvy: Jonathan, quick! Get that Easter Bunny over here now!
Jonathan: Hey, Tommy, where's Sammy?
Tommy: He's over there.
Jonathan: Oh, excuse me!
Tommy: Why? What's going on?
Ouiser: What's the matter? What's wr-? Oh, my God! She's gonna have a baby!! Go get a doctor! Help! A doctor!
Clairee: This way, this way. Spud's Jeep is this way!! Come on!! Here, here! Get her in! [Jackson and Marshall help Annelle into Spud's Jeep; Truvy gets in after her]
M'Lynn: We'll find Sammy! We'll find Sammy! lt's all right, honey. We'll get Sammy.
Clairee: Drive careful!!
Louie: Come on, Sammy! Get your tail hoppin'!

View Quote Truvy: [laughs] Are you gonna quit your nursin' job?
Shelby: Never! I love it! I love bein' around all those babies!!
M'Lynn: Drum and I both feel that she should not work after she gets married.
Shelby: Well I'm so anxious to discuss this topic for the 900th time this week!!
M'Lynn: You should not be on your feet all day!! You should be kinder to your circulatory system!!
Shelby: Ya know what you need in here, Truvy? You need a radio. Music is a wonderful thing to have in the background. It takes the pressure off of everybody feeling they have to talk so much.
Truvy: Oh, I used to have one, but I smalled it against the wall when I couldn't figure out where the batteries went. Of course, I know now I was suffering from pre-menstrual syndrome.
Clairee: A radio. What did I just hear—? Oh, yes! The Antilley family is sellin' KPPD! I wonder how much radio stations sell for.
Shelby: Miss Clairee. You should buy KPPD! You got plenty of money!
Clairee: What would I do with a radio station? Oh, business never interested me. Lloyd took care of all that stuff. Shelby, I hope you and Jackson will be as happy as Lloyd and I were. We had such a good time. Until November. Well, at least he hung on through the state playoffs.
Shelby: Miss Clairee, there are still good times to be had.
Clairee: Well, I really do love football, but it's hard to parlay that into a reason to live.
Truvy: What are your colors, Shelby?
Shelby: They're blush and bashful.
M'Lynn: Her colors are pink and pink.
Shelby: My colors are blush and bashful, Mama.
M'Lynn: How precious is this wedding gonna get, I ask you?
Shelby: My colors are blush and bashful. I have chosen two shades of pink, one is much deeper than the other.
M'Lynn: But the bridesmaids dresses, they are really beautiful.
Shelby: Ceremony will be too. The walls are banked with sprays of flowers, and my two shades of blush and bashful. Pink carpets especially laid out for my service, and pink silk bunting, draped over anything that would stand still.
M'Lynn: That sanctuary looks like it's been hosed down with Pepto Bismol!
Shelby: I like pink! Pink is my signature color.
Truvy: How many bridesmaids?
Shelby: Nine!
Truvy: Nine?! Good Lord!!
Shelby: Exactly. Mama made me have my cousins and Margie St. Maurice.
M'Lynn: Shelby, let's not go into this now! You know there was no way around it!
Shelby: It will be pretentious. And Daddy always says, An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure.
M'Lynn: The poet laureate of Dogwood Lane.
Shelby: Mama, I wish you'd get off Daddy's back.
M'Lynn: Shelby, look, now l don't really wanna get into—
Truvy: Fill us in on the reception!!
Shelby: My reception! My reception! Ferns, dancing, tons of people! Every pink flower west of the Mississippi. Wedding cake in the dining room and the groom's cake... Hidden in the carport?
M'Lynn: Shelby and I, we agree on one thing.
M'Lynn and Shelby: The groomscake!!
Shelby: It's awful!! lt's in the shape of a giant armadillo.
Truvy: An armadillo?! You're jokin' right?
Shelby: No. Jackson wanted a cake in the shape of an armadillo. He's got an aunt that makes them.
Clairee: It's unusual.
M'Lynn: It's repulsive! It's got gray icing! I can't even begin to think how you make gray icing!
Shelby: Worse the cake part is red velvet cake. Blood red!! People are gonna be hackin' into this poor animal that looks like it's bleedin' to death.
M'Lynn: The rehearsal supper was a real experience.
Shelby: Mama, it wasn't that bad! It was out at Jackson's uncle's place on the river.
M'Lynn: Jackson comes from the good old Southern family with good old Southern values. Ya either shoot it, stuff it or marry it.
Shelby: They're simply outdoorsy, that's all.
Truvy: Did ya'll do anything especially romantic?
Shelby: We drove down to Frenchmen's Point and went parkin'!
M'Lynn: Oh, Shelby. Really!
Truvy: Oh, M'Lynn, leave her alone. This is my favorite part. This is the romantic part. Now, see, that's what really melts my butter.
Shelby: well, then we went skinny dipping, and we did things that frightened the fish.
Clairee: It's been a long time since we had a youngster in this place.
Shelby: We talked and talked and talked…
Truvy: I love those kinda talks in the arms of the man you love!
Shelby: Actually, we fought most of the time.
Truvy: You fought?
Shelby: Well, cause I told him I wouldn't marry him.
M'Lynn: What?!
Clairee: Why'd you go and do a thing like that?
Shelby: Oh, it's okay now. We worked it all out.
Truvy: Oh, it's probably one of those last minute jitter things.
Shelby: No, but the weddin's still on.
Truvy: Well, thank goodness. [pointing to Shelby's hairstyle] 'Cause this is going to be in the hairdo hall of fame.

View Quote Clairee: Shelby, you scared us. That wasn't a nice thing to do to your mama. You should never say something like that to a woman who's marinating fifty pounds of crab claws
Truvy: Oh, but the makin' up can be extremely romantic. I miss romance so much.
Clairee: Oh, Truvy, it can't be that bad.
Truvy: Oh really, now? Well, the last romantic thing my husband did for me was back in 1972. He enclosed this carport so that I could support him!
M'Lynn: Well, Truvy, now I think I have somethin' that could cheer you up. Drum and l have been plannin' to talk to your husband about buildin' a room on to our house.
Truvy: M'Lynn, are you serious? lf you give Spud a job, l'll give you hot oil treatments for the rest of your life! Annelle, this looks pretty good. I think you know what you're doin'.
Annelle: Thank you!! Mrs. Eatenton, you have great hair. And your scalp's as clean as a whistle.
M'Lynn: I try.
Truvy: Well, it must run in the family. This young'un's got the prettiest hair l've ever had my hands in. So thick. Well, just because l'm braggin' on you don't mean you can get lazy on me. Hold your head up, Shelby.
Shelby: Stop it!!
Truvy: Shelby? Shelby! M'Lynn!!
Clairee: I'll get some juice!!
M'Lynn: Truvy, there's some candy in my purse.
Truvy: I have some right here. [grabs a peppermint]
M'Lynn: Shelby. Shelby. Hold on. Clairee's getting you some juice. Shelby. Shelby. Shelby.
Truvy: Should I get her a cookie?
M'Lynn: No, juice is better.
Clairee: Here's the juice!!
M'Lynn: Shelby! Shelby, you need some juice. You need some juice.
Shelby: Stop it, Mama!
M'Lynn: Drink the juice.
Truvy: Please drink the juice.
Shelby: No! Stop it, Mama! l have some candy in my purse.
M'Lynn: No, you didn't bring your purse, sweetheart. You didn't bring your purse. No you didn't!! No, here you go. There you go. Drink some of this. lt's not any wonder with all this runnin' around and weddin' nonsense.
Annelle: Excuse me. Should l call the doctor or somethin'?
Truvy: No! No!
Clairee: She's a diabetic.
M'Lynn: She just has a little too much insulin, that's all. We'll get a little more in her. She'll be all right.
Shelby: lf you don't leave me alone, l'm gonna leave.
M'Lynn: Oh, I'd love to see you try!! Cooperate, please!!
Truvy: Honey, drink, please!!
M'Lynn: Come on, now. Thattagirl. Yes, yes, yes, yes. There you go. There you go. There, there. That's a start.
Clairee: This one hit her fast.
M'Lynn: Yeah. She's been so upset lately. Dr. Mitchell told her on her last appointment…children aren't possible.
Shelby: Don't talk about me like l'm not here.
M'Lynn: [slight laugh] Oh, oh, oh, oh, she's makin' some sense now. Yes, she is. This one was not bad at all. It was not bad at all. No, l think we needa little more juice.
Annelle: Could l do somethin' to help?
M'Lynn: No, no. She'll be fine. Don't fuss over her.
Clairee: Here, M'Lynn.
M'Lynn: Thanks.
Truvy: I'm really sorry about the children part, M'Lynn.
M'Lynn: I know. Shelby's afraid Jackson will be throwin' away his chance to have children.
Shelby: Jackson said: Shelby, don't be stupid. There's plenty of kids out there need good homes.
M'Lynn: Drink some.
Shelby: We'll adopt 10 of them. We'll buy them if we have to.
Clairee: Jackson sounds like good people to me.
Shelby: Oh Mama, I'm sorry!!
M'Lynn: That's all right, honey.
Shelby: I'm sorry!!
M'Lynn: lt's all right. lt's all over now. lt's all—You hold your juice.
Shelby: Okay.
M'Lynn: lt's all over. hold your juice.
Shelby: Okay.
M'Lynn: All right.
Shelby: Okay.
Truvy: You all right?
Shelby: Truvy, I'm sorry!!
Truvy: Oh, I'll fix it!! We'll fix it!!
Shelby: Okay. [drinks more juice] Okay.
Drum: What'd I do with my gun?
Jonathan: Well, where'd ya leave it?
Drum: How the hell do I know? Well, come on, we got work to do. Daylight's burnin'. Gotta get rid of some birds!!
Jonathan: Whoo!! Got the arrows, Daddy!!
Drum: All right, all right. Hey lookie here, lookie here!!
Tommy: Yeah, and I got the target!!
Drum: No, we're not goin target shootin', forget it.
Shelby: Miss Clairee, what cute shoes!
Clairee: Ya think so? I'm not so sure myself. They seem a little too racy for me. I'll probably give em away.
Truvy: Oh, they're just too cha-cha for words. if you decide to get rid of em, I'll buy em from ya.
Clairee: What size you wear?
Truvy: Well in a good shoe, I wear a size 6. But a 7 feels so good, I buy a size 8.
Clairee: They're 8 and a half.
Truvy: Perfect!
Clairee: Lord, give us strength!!
Ouiser: Oh, God, come here, Rhett!!
Annelle: That is one ugly dog. What kinda dog is that?
Clairee: If it had hair, it'd be a St. Bernard.
Ouiser: This is it, I have found it, I am in Hell!!
Truvy: Good mornin, Ouiser.
Ouiser: Don't try to get on my good side, Truvy. I no longer have one! Come here, Rhett.
Truvy: You're a little early, ain't ya?
Ouiser: That is PRECISELY why I'm here! I've gotta talk to M'Lynn about her husband. He is a boil on the butt of humanity!
M'Lynn: I'm sorry, Ouiser. This whole thing has gotten outta hand.
Ouiser: It's not your fault, M'Lynn. Ya know, l used to think you were crazy for marryin' that man. Then, for a few years, l thought you were glutton for punishment. Now l realize you must be on some mission from God.
Shelby: Miss Ouiser, Daddy isn't trying' to drive you crazy. He's tryin' to make my reception nice. His heart's in the right place.
M'Lynn: Ouiser, l know for a fact there will be no more gunshots.
Ouiser: But he was gonna fire a gun at me!!
M'Lynn: They're blanks. Drum would never, ever point a gun at a lady.
Ouiser: He's a real gentleman. l bet he takes the dishes outta the sink before he pees in it. (sees Annelle.) Who the hell are you?