Scarlett Johansson credited as playing...
Pursy Will
- Cecil: Your mama thought you were golden so we named you after yellow flowers and corn. This is you here...
- [cuts some purslane from garden]
- Cecil: ...pretty, golden purslane.
- Pursy Will: Purslane's really a weed, you know. A neighbor told me when I was 9 and I ran over his tomato plants. He said all gardeners hate purslane.
- Cecil: Yeah, and dandelions. Doesn't stop kids from making wishes on 'em.
- Lawson Pines: You know, I knew your mother pretty well.
- Pursy Will: How well?
- Lawson Pines: She was hard to understand. But she kept the door to her heart open.
- Pursy Will: Well, the way I heard it was more of a revolving door, now, wasn't it?
- Bobby Long: Now just exactly who is Plato and who is Socrates in this equation? Cause fuck, I'll just stay out.
- Lawson Pines: You are Socrates, of course. You are the teacher.
- Bobby Long: Goddamn right I am.
- Pursy Will: I wish you'd all just shut up. Cause if it's gonna be like this, I ain't learning nothing.
- Bobby Long: Girl, your English is fucking atrocious!
- Lee: Look, I'm sorry. Why don't you just cook me some dinner and I'll go rent us some porno?
- Pursy Will: I have to go to a funeral, Lee. Unless I missed it because you forgot to tell me that my mother is dead!
- Bobby Long: Someone should have told those Creole people we got something called winter in Louisiana
- Pursy Will: Well, y'all might've improved on their oversight with this cool new invention called HEAT.
- Bobby Long: Pursy, where'd you put the vodka?
- Pursy Will: You told me to hide it.
- Bobby Long: I did. But where did you hide it?
- Pursy Will: I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
- Bobby Long: Goddamn, you don't do anything else I tell you to do. Now where is it?
- Pursy Will: Lawson! Bobby's trying to get me to tell him where the vodka is again.
- [Lawson enters]
- Lawson Pines: Pursy, it is Christmas.
- Pursy Will: Oh whatever. It's under the back stairs.
- Lawson Pines: Damn girl, you woke up productive. Bobby, come see what Pursy did.
- Bobby Long: I see what she didn't do. Leave.
- Pursy Will: She ain't gonna leave.
- Pursy Will: Why'd ya'll leave that school?
- Lawson Pines: It's complicated. So many reasons.
- Pursy Will: Tell me one.
- Lawson Pines: A lot happened really fast. And New Orleans, all this, seemed romantic at the time.
- Pursy Will: Is it? Is it romantic?
- Lawson Pines: It has its moments.