Esther Rolle credited as playing...
Idella
- Idella: I'm goin', Miss Daisy.
- Daisy Werthan: [from upstairs] Alright Idella, see you tomorrow.
- Hoke Colburn: I'm goin' too, Miss Daisy.
- Daisy Werthan: Good!
- Boolie Werthan: How're you, Idella?
- Idella: Livin'.
- Boolie Werthan: Where's that vacuum cleaner I brought over here?
- Idella: In the closet.
- Boolie Werthan: [turning to Hoke] She won't touch it.
- Idella: I would if it didn't give me a shock every time I come near it!
- Boolie Werthan: It works for me!
- Idella: Fine... you clean and I'll go down and run your office!
- [to Hoke on his first day of work]
- Idella: I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.
- Daisy Werthan: [Stepping into the kitchen] And don't make a mess of those peas, Idella.
- Idella: [Under her breath] Do I ever?
- Daisy Werthan: [on the phone, trying to get a ride to her hair appointment] Well, I need you now, I have to be at the beauty parlor in half an hour... no, I most certainly did NOT know you have to call a minimum of three hours ahead! I don't know why you call yourselves a taxicab company if you can't provide taxicabs!
- Idella: [in the other room, polishing a table] Why don't you call your son down at the mill? He'll send somebody for you.
- Daisy Werthan: That won't be necessary... I'll just cancel the appointment and fix my own hair!
- Idella: Sometimes I think you ain't got the sense God gave a lemon!
- Hoke Colburn: [Hoke and Idella are walking to Daisy's house and notice Boolie's car in the driveway] Now what do you suppose he's doin' here this early in the mornin'?
- Idella: Dunno... can't be good, I promise you that!
- Boolie Werthan: [Boolie is eating lunch at Daisy's, trying to convince her that she can't drive anymore after her accident] Mama.
- Daisy Werthan: No.
- Boolie Werthan: Mama!
- Daisy Werthan: No!
- Boolie Werthan: You know, it's a miracle you're not laying up at Emory Hospital. Or decked out at the funeral parlor!
- Daisy Werthan: Cucumbers are pretty this summer.
- Boolie Werthan: Look at you, you didn't even break your glasses!
- Daisy Werthan: It was the car's fault.
- Boolie Werthan: Mama, you had the car in the wrong gear.
- Daisy Werthan: I did not! Idella, do you want a pickle with your lunch?
- Idella: [from within the house] Not me.
- Daisy Werthan: Well, I'm fixin' you a jar for you to take home to William, y'hear?
- Idella: Yes'm.
- Daisy Werthan: [Daisy walks into the kitchen as Hoke and Idella are watching "The Edge of Night"] I don't know how you all can look at that.
- Hoke Colburn: You see it a few times, you get in it!
- Daisy Werthan: Both your brains are fixing to evaporate!
- [beat]
- Daisy Werthan: You can bring the cake now, Hoke!
- Hoke Colburn: Yes'm.
- Daisy Werthan: And don't make a mess with those peas, Idella.
- Idella: Do I ever?
- Hoke Colburn: [gets up to get the cake] Lookit there, lookit... ain't she got a head full of hair? Wonder how she get it so shiny?
- Idella: She washes it in mayonnaise.
- Hoke Colburn: [beat, shocked] Go on away from here, Idella!
- Idella: Yeah, she did! Read it in Life Magazine.
- Hoke Colburn: Don't seem human.
- [Hoke leaves with the cake. Idella intensely watches the TV while shelling her peas. Hoke comes back in the room]
- Hoke Colburn: What happened? She up to somethin', ain't she?
- [Hoke looks at Idella, who doesn't respond, instead dropping her bowl of peas on the floor]
- Hoke Colburn: Idella?... IDELLA?