Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Kathy Bates: Evelyn Couch
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Quotes
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[Evelyn is cut off in a parking lot]
Evelyn Couch : Hey! I was waiting for that spot!
Girl #1 : Face it, lady, we're younger and faster!
[Evelyn rear-ends the other car six times]
Girl #1 : What are you *doing*?
Girl #2 : Are you *crazy*?
Evelyn Couch : Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
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Evelyn Couch : Towanda! Righter of Wrongs, Queen Beyond Compare!
Ninny Threadgoode : How many of them hormones you takin', honey?
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Evelyn Couch : I can't even look at my own vagina!
Ninny Threadgoode : Well I can't help you on that one honey.
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Ed Couch : What the hell's this?
Evelyn Couch : That's a low cholesterol meal. Happy Valentine's.
Ed Couch : God! Are you trying to kill me?
Evelyn Couch : If I was gonna kill you, I'd use my hands.
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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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Evelyn Couch : [Evelyn has found a note on Ruth's Grave from Idgie revealing that Idgie is still alive] Idgie? Idgie's alive?
Ninny Threadgoode : Oh yes she's very much alive! Still selling honey and charming bees! Sometimes I think I catch a glimpse of her!
Evelyn Couch : Maybe we'll see her today!
Ninny Threadgoode : Maybe!
Evelyn Couch : Let's go!
[she takes Ninny by the arm and they continue walking]
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Evelyn Couch : I never get mad, Miss Threadgoode, never, the way I was raised, it was bad manners. Well I got mad, and it felt great. I felt like I could just beat the shit out of all those punks! Excuse my language. And then when I finish with those punks, I'll take on all the wife beaters like Frank Bennett, machine gun their genitals,
[imitates machine gun]
Evelyn Couch : eh-he-he-he-he-he!
[laughs]
Evelyn Couch : Towanda will go on a rampage, I'll slip tiny bombs into Penthouse and Playboys so they explode when you open them. I'll ban all fashion models who weigh under 130 pounds! And I'll give half the military budget to people over 65 and declare wrinkles sexually desirable.
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Evelyn Couch : Ms. Threadgoode, how about tellin' me some more, about Idgie?
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Evelyn Couch : [after candy has been thrown at her] I'm glad you're feeling better, Aunt Vesta. Good thing your eyesight's failing.
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Ninny Threadgoode : It's good to see you're so happy, and you've slimmed down quite a bit these last few weeks.
Evelyn Couch : I'm just so happy, Big George and Idgie got off. I would've killed Frank Bennett if I coulda. Did anybody really think Idgie murdered him?
Ninny Threadgoode : Some said yes, some said no. The only person who really knew the answer to that was Frank Bennett, and you know what they say, dead men tell no tales.
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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 : 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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Evelyn Couch : Excuse me young man there was no reason for you to be so rude to me back there.
Boy at Supermarket : Get away from me you fat cow!
Evelyn Couch : [shocked] What did you call me?
Boy at Supermarket : Beat it you old bitch!
Evelyn Couch : Why are you being so mean to me? What have I ever done to you?
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Evelyn Couch : Did you hear that?
Ed Couch : What?
Evelyn Couch : The train.
Ed Couch : No, I didn't hear no train.
Evelyn Couch : Ah, nothing I guess.
