Meryl Streep credited as playing...
- Bessie: Oh, Lee, I've been so lucky. I've been so lucky to have Dad and Ruth. I've had such love in my life. You know, I look back, and I've had such... such love.
- Lee: They love you very much.
- Bessie: No, that's not what I mean. No, no... I mean that I love them. I've been so lucky to have been able to love someone so much.
- Lee: We're going to see your Aunt Bessie in Florida. She's not feeling so well.
- Hank: I didn't even knew I had an Aunt Bessie.
- Lee: She came to the house right after your Dad and I were married.
- Hank: I wasn't even born yet.
- Lee: Oh.
- Hank: [upon being asked to get out of the car] They're having a top 100 countdown and I want to hear number 1.
- Lee: What number are they up to?
- Hank: 86!
- Bessie: I wish we could get along.
- Lee: We do get along.
- Bessie: No I know but I mean really get along and be polite with one another.
- Lee: We're Sisters.
- Lee: You know how every goddamn Christmas I say, Looks like we didn't get a card again this year from your Aunt Bessie? Well, that's my sister Bessie.
- Lee: [to her son] My feelings for you, Hank, are like a big bowl of -
- [sighs]
- Lee: fish hooks. I can't just pick up one up at a time. I pick one up and they all come, so I just had to leave 'em alone.
- Lee: Are you behaving yourself?
- Hank: Well, they're not strapping me down anymore.
- Lee: This is my sister we're talking about. We're not gonna let her die just so you can have one of your moods.
- Lee: We call it the loony bin, or the nut house, to show that we've got a sense of humor about it.
- Lee: Don't waste your time trying to make friends with him. We're only going to be here a few days.
- [last lines]
- Ruth: Bessie! Oh Bessie, you missed it. Coral finally married Lance!
- Bessie: But now, wasn't Lance married to Coral's mother?
- Lee: No! Coral was married to Lance's father.
- Ruth: He's really a nice boy.
- Lee: Aunt Ruth, you're up and around.
- Ruth: Yeah, I'm part machine.
