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Dean Cain, Charisma Carpenter, and Kirstin Dorn in Heaven's Door (2012)

Joanna Cassidy: Ruth Christensen

Heaven's Door

Joanna Cassidy credited as playing...

Ruth Christensen

Quotes7

  • Ruth Christensen: Grandpa used to say "Death was Life's way of saying 'You're fired.'"
  • Julie Taylor: Well, at least... at least Dad didn't suffer.
  • Ruth Christensen: No, God bless him. He left the rest of us to do that.
  • Julie Taylor: You just can't forgive him for dying, can you?
  • Ruth Christensen: I'm not helpless! I'm old!
  • Ruth Christensen: What about YOUR children? They gonna be allowed to believe when they want?
  • Julie Taylor: I will decide when it's time for them to decide.
  • Ruth Christensen: Sheep dip.
  • Julie Taylor: Why?
  • Ruth Christensen: For the same reason Halloween isn't any fun in a nudist colony.
  • Leo Taylor: How come it's always the man who has to change?
  • Ruth Christensen: Because men are the ones that start these problems.
  • Leo Taylor: It's a good thing we have the women there to... point that out for us.
  • Ruth Christensen: [on phone to Mitch] She'll be there when she gets there, nimrod.
  • [hangs up]
  • Julie Taylor: Just once, Mom, I wish you'd say what you really mean.
  • Ruth Christensen: I can't. I'm trying to give up that kind of language.
  • Ruth Christensen: Come on, you owe me.
  • Riley Taylor: I do?
  • Ruth Christensen: Yeah, you do. It says so in the Bible. You have to honor your grandmother and tell her stuff.

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