What happened?
I'll tell you when I regain consciousness.
Frank
Steve Carell · 19 quotes
Edwin
Alan Arkin · 16 quotes
Richard
Greg Kinnear · 13 quotes
Olive
Abigail Breslin · 9 quotes
Sheryl
Toni Collette · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Frank & Olive (4), Frank & Richard (3), Dwayne & Frank (3)
Little Miss Sunshine quotes
Page 4 of 4Do you eat ice cream?
Miss California Yes. My favorite is Cherry Chocolate Garcia, except technically I think it's a frozen yogurt.
Hey, where are the dressing rooms?
Contestant
Are you even allowed back here?
Just tell me where the dressing rooms are!
Pageant Assistant Pam [Dwayne walks swiftly by]
Are you authorized to be backstage?
Pageant Official Jenkins
[outraged at Olive's talent act]
What is your daughter doing?
She's kickin' ass, that's what she's doing.
[after being persuaded to go on the trip, Dwayne writes] [reading Dwayne's writing]
"Ok, but I'm not going to have any fun." Yeah, well, we're all with you on that one, Dwayne.
Grandpa?
Yeah?
You're not a loser. Where'd you get the idea you're a loser?
Grandpa
Whoa whoa whoa, back up a minute. D'you know what a loser is? A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. Now you're trying, right?
Well then you're not a loser! We're gonna have fun tomorrow, right?
We can tell 'em all to go to hell.
"We have to let Olive be Olive."
Who do you hang out with? [long pause] No one?
[Dwayne writes "I hate everyone" on his notepad]
What about your family?
[Dwayne underlines "everyone"]
I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all of this, high school, everything.
Do you know who Marcel Proust is?
He's the guy you teach.
Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he, uh, he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18-- ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-- those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.
[Edwin is complaining about the family having chicken for dinner]
What's that? Chicken? Every night it's the **** chicken! Holy God Almighty! Is it possible, just once, we could get something to eat for dinner around here that's not the goddamned **** chicken?
Whenever you are ready to cook your own food, you're more than welcome to it.
Well, at Sunset Manor, ya know...
If you liked Sunset Manor so much, you shouldn't have gotten yourself kicked out of there, right?
[Dwayne fetches Frank for dinner and, with sign language, instructs him to come]
What, dinner? What you don't talk anymore?
[Dwayne points to painting of Nietzsche]
Is that Nietzsche? You don't speak because of Friedrich Nietzsche?