Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

Jennifer Jason Leigh: Anney

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Quotes 

• Doctor : How'd she break her coccyx?

  Anney Boatwright : Her what?

  Doctor : Her tailbone, lady! Her ass! What you been hitting' this child with, or maybe you just been throwin' her up against the damn wall!

  Anney Boatwright : What are you sayin'? What are you sayin'?

  Doctor : [to Bone]  Do you wanna talk about it, honey? How 'bout we ask your mama to leave, and then, maybe you can tell me what happened, okay?

  Anney Boatwright : Let me have my girl!

  Doctor : This child's been beaten! This child's been beaten, and I'm gonna call the authorities!

• Anney Boatwright : I don't care what they say, Bone. I won't have anybody call you trash.

• Anney Boatwright : Hey, Bone. You sleepin'? You startin' to look like me, Bone. You're growin' up. What do you think, honey? You think I'm doin' the right thing?

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I don't know.

  Anney Boatwright : I think I am. I hope I am! Sometimes I just get so tired, you know? Sometimes I just want somebody strong to stand by me. To stay with me.

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I'll stay with you.

  Anney Boatwright : I know you will, Bone.

• Glen Waddell : We're movin'.

  Anney Boatwright : What? Where?

  Glen Waddell : Found us a new place over by the JC Penney mill.

  Aunt Ruth : Why? What's wrong with this place?

  Alma : Damn you, Glen Waddell. Don't you take Anney so far away.

• Anney Boatwright : Not my kids. I was never gonna have my girls know what it was like. I was never gonna have them go hungry or cold or scared. Never, you hear me? Never!

• Glen Waddell : [Glen, takes money out of envelope]  Anney, what the hell is this?

  Anney Boatwright : Earl was just tryin' to help, Glen. Good Lord.

  Glen Waddell : How can you shame me like that? I'm a grown man, Anney. I don't need your brother to pay my damn way,

  [slams money on the table] 

  Glen Waddell : you give that back to him tomorrow.

  Anney Boatwright : Glen, that's crazy. We need this money.

  Glen Waddell : You just do as I say and

  [rips cord from wall] 

  Glen Waddell : sell the damn radio, while you're at it!

  Glen Waddell : The things I do ain't good enough for you. I put my hand in a honey jar, comes out piss! Nothing I do is right!

  Anney Boatwright : Glen, everybody has troubles now and then, honey. Just give it time, sweetie. Things are gonna work out.

  Glen Waddell : [Annoyingly]  Shut up. You shut up, you don't give me that mama crap! You shut your mouth, you just shut up! Shut Up!

  [the girls looks in horror] 

  Glen Waddell : I'm sorry Anney. Anney, you know I don't mean to yell at you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

  [Grabs Bone's arm firmly, and she yelps in pain] 

  Glen Waddell : You know how much I love your mama.

  Anney Boatwright : Oh, Jesus, Glen! You don't know your own strength!

  Glen Waddell : I guess, I don't. But Bone knows I never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell Anney! I love all of you, you know that!

• Granny : Ruth Anne's all right, but Mattie Raylene would've been better. 'Course nobody bothered to ask me.

  Anney Boatwright : Nobody bothered to ask you? Nobody bothered to ask me. It's my baby.

  Granny : That's your own damn fault for sleepin' three whole days.

  Anney Boatwright : I had a concussion, Mama!

  Granny : How many babies I had, and did I sleep through any of 'em? I don't think so.

• Anney Boatwright : Bone, I got somebody who wants to meet you. Bone, this is Glen Waddell. Say hey.

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : Hey.

  Glen Waddell : Hey, Bone. How you doin'?

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : Fine.

  Glen Waddell : You sit out here every night?

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : After school.

• Anney Boatwright : Glen's not like that.

  Granny : You don't what that boy's like.

  Anney Boatwright : I know he loves me.

  Granny : Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.

  Anney Boatwright : That's not true.

• Anney Boatwright : Oh, Jesus, Glen. You don't know your own strength.

  Glen Waddell : I guess I don't. But Bone knows I'd never mean to hurt her. Bone knows I love her. Hell, Anney, I love all of you. You know that.

  Narrator : No, he never meant to hurt me. Not really, I told myself. But more and more those hands seemed to move before he could think.

• Glen Waddell : Bone, what're you doing up here? How many times you gonna make me call you, girl?

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I didn't hear you.

  Glen Waddell : Didn't hear you? I've been callin' you for five minutes. Your mama needs your help down there.

  Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright : I didn't hear you.

  Glen Waddell : Don't you sass me. Don't you dare sass me. You think just 'cause your aunt died, you can talk to me like that? You're in my house, now. I am the boss of my house. Do you understand that?

  Anney Boatwright : Glen! Of all days, Jesus! Glen!

  Glen Waddell : Anney! Anney!, let me handle this! Please, let me handle this!

  Anney Boatwright : No, Glen! No, Glen! Glen! Glen!