Other Titles • The Great Santini • The Ace (1979) • The Gift of Fury (1979)
Quotes from The Great Santini (1979)
1
Bull Meechum: I am Santini, the Great Santini. Bull Meechum: I come from behind the moon, out of the dark, unannounced. Bull Meechum: Watch out!
(21 votes)
2
Mary Anne Meechum: I hate this place. Lillian Meechum: Now sugar, you've got to open yourself to a town. You've been in the corps long enough to know that. Mary Anne Meechum: I am not in the corps. Matthew Meechum: Says you! Bull Meechum: Shut your little yaps! Now here it is sports fans, Beaufort S.C.!
(20 votes)
3
Bull Meechum: I'd like to propose a toast, to my son. He is eighteen today. He has just ordered his first drink. Before he drinks it, I'd like to wish him a long life, a wife as fine as his mother, and a son as fine as he's been. To my son!
(19 votes)
4
Coach Spinks: I want us to win and win big. I want us to make our school proud, I want us to make our parents proud, our grandparents proud, our first and second cousins proud, our POONTANG proud and ourselves proud.
(17 votes)
5
Bull Meechum: I didn't know you looked so stacked, sports fans. Mary Anne Meechum: How sicko sexual can you get?
(17 votes)
6
[Walking down the hall at school] Mary Anne Meechum: They're staring at us like we're freaks or something. Ben Meechum: No they're no. Look, just pick someone out. Go on up to them and say, "Hi my name's Mary Anne Meechum. I'm new in town, like you for a friend." Just like that.
7
Ben Meechum: You know what Toomer? This is terrific. There's a shooting star. Toomer: There's no star boy. That's the tear of infant Jesus falling on such a sinful, hateful world. This is sure one fine night, isn't it buddy boy? Ben Meechum: Yep, this is one fine night Toomer.
8
[At a high school dance] Mary Anne Meechum: Can you believe dad bought me this dress? He can be so childishly sentimental sometimes. Isn't this ridiculous? [Ben dips Mary Anne] Ben Meechum: [joking] My darling, there's an enormous booger in your nose. [Mary Anne and Ben start laughing out loud]
9
Mary Anne Meechum: He does remind me someone from the movies, but it's not Rhett Butler. Karen Meechum: Who's that? Mary Anne Meechum: Godzilla!
10
Lillian Meechum: I am not going anywhere at 3:00 in the morning. No, I am not moving this is ridiculous! It doesn't make any sense!
11
Bull Meechum: Who the hell asked you anything? [slaps Lillian] Lillian Meechum: Don't you talk to me like that! Now, he beat you and it was beautiful.
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