Other Titles • Fried Green Tomatoes • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Quotes from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
1
Buddy Threadgoode: Come on down, Li'l Bit. There's no firin' squad waitin' for ya.
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Ninny Threadgoode: Did you know they took my gallbladder out? Evelyn Couch: Uh, no I didn't. Ninny Threadgoode: Oh yes, still in the hospital in a jar. I guess that's where they keep them. Evelyn Couch: I guess.
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Grady Kilgore: Ruth, I have to say. I believe Idgie's been a bad influence on you. Ruth: I agree!
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Sipsey: Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!
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Evelyn Couch: Towanda! Right of Wrong, Queen Beyond Compare! Ninny Threadgoode: How many of them hormones you takin', honey?
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Frank Bennett: Well, hello there, miss. And who might you be? Idgie Threadgoode: Towanda, to you. Who're you? Frank Bennett: Oh, ah, Frank Bennett's the name, Miss... ah, Towanda. Idgie Threadgoode: Hmm. Frank Bennett: I must say, you are looking mighty fine today. Idgie Threadgoode: You a politician, or does lying just run in your family?
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Ninny Threadgoode: Idgie and her friend Ruth ran the Whistle Stop Cafe. Idgie was a character, all right. But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me. Evelyn Couch: I beg your pardon?
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Ninny Threadgoode: Oh, what I wouldn't give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like we used to have at the cafe. Ooh!
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Grady Kilgore: You are absolutely, unconditionally, positively the most stubborn person I've ever known in my life!
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Evelyn Couch: Ms. Threadgoode, how about tellin' me some more, about Idgie?
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Ruth: This doesn't have anything to do with trains, does it?
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Mama Threadgoode: It's an obituary... oh no, honey, Ruth's mother died. And this is from the Bible, it's from the Book of Ruth. And Ruth said: "Whither thou goest, I will go. Where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people."
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Idgie Threadgoode: I don't know what's worse, church or jail.
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Ruth: You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
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Ruth: Don't you ever say never to me.
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Ruth: Idgie Threadgoode, you ol' beecharmer, you.
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Ninny Threadgoode: [to Evelyn] You git yourself some hormones!
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Idgie Threadgoode: I can't believe he swore on the Bible! Ruth: Well, if that judge had looked any closer, he'd have seen that it was a copy of Moby Dick.
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Nurse: I'd thought you'd be happy for Miz. Threadgood. Evelyn Couch: [Crying and very upset] Happy? Cuz she's dead? Nurse: No that she gets to go home. She just left in a yellow cab. Evelyn Couch: [Looking VERY confused] I don't understand... Nurse: Well, there was really no point in her staying here now that Mrs. Otis died... Evelyn Couch: [Wide eyed] Mrs. OTIS died? Nurse: Well yes. Evelyn Couch: Mrs Otis died! [hopping around laughing] Evelyn Couch: Mrs. Otis died! [catches herself] Evelyn Couch: Not that I'm happy that Mrs. Otis is dead.
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Missy: I hear they've got an assertive training class for southern women. [looks puzzled] Missy: Of course that's a contradiction in terms.
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Evelyn Couch: I can't even look at my own vagina.
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