Fried Green Tomatoes Quotes

Fried Green Tomatoes is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Fried Green Tomatoes stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jon Avnet, and Jordan Kerner as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Geoffrey Simpson as head of cinematography.

Fried Green Tomatoes is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Fried Green Tomatoes is 136 minutes long. Fried Green Tomatoes is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode, Cicely Tyson as Sipsey, Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison as Idgie Threadgoode, Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth, Nick Searcy as Frank Bennett, Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode, Gary Basaraba as Grady Kilgore, Constance Shulman as Missy, Timothy Scott as Smokey Lonesome, Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch, Macon McCalman as Prosecutor Percy, Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode Jr., and Lois Smith as Mama Threadgoode.

Fried Green Tomatoes Quotes

Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode Jr.

• (Chris O'Donnell) "Come on down, Li'l Bit. There's no firin' squad waitin' for ya."

Gary Basaraba as Grady Kilgore

• (Gary Basaraba) "Ruth, I have to say. I believe Idgie's been a bad influence on you."
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "I agree."

• (Gary Basaraba) "You are absolutely, unconditionally, positively the most stubborn person I've ever known in my life."

Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison as Idgie Threadgoode

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "You're never gonna jump, are you?"
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Don't you ever say never to me."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "See, now is a time for courage. I guess you already know that there are angels masquerading as people walking around this planet and your mom was the bravest one of those."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "There's so many"
• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "things I want to say to you."
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "No, I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie."
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Go on you ol' Bee Charmer, tell me a good tall tale."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "Believe me when I tell you, I don't want you to move out."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "I don't know what's worse, church or jail."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "I can't believe he swore on the Bible."
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Well, if that judge had looked any closer, he'd have seen that it was a copy of Moby Dick."

• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "Where the hell are you going with my money?"
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "We're going home."
• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "Who are you to boss be around?"
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "I'm the one holding your money, that's who."

Nick Searcy as Frank Bennett

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Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch

• (Kathy Bates) "I can't even look at my own vagina."
• (Jessica Tandy) "Well I can't help you on that one honey."

• (Kathy Bates) "I'm glad you're feeling better, Aunt Vesta. Good thing your eyesight's failing."

• (Kathy Bates) "Hey. I was waiting for that spot."
• (Girl #1) "Face it, lady, we're younger and faster."
• (Girl #1) "What are you doing ?"
• (Girl #2) "Are you crazy ?"
• (Kathy Bates) "Face it, girls, I'm older and I have more insurance."

• (Kathy Bates) "Ms. Threadgoode, how about tellin' me some more, about Idgie?"

• (Kathy Bates) "Towanda. Righter of Wrongs, Queen Beyond Compare."
• (Jessica Tandy) "How many of them hormones you takin', honey?"

• (Kathy Bates) "Did you hear that?"
• (Gailard Sartain) "What?"
• (Kathy Bates) "The train."
• (Gailard Sartain) "No, I didn't hear no train."
• (Kathy Bates) "Ah, nothing I guess."

• (Kathy Bates) "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 s*** 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,"
• (Kathy Bates) "eh-he-he-he-he-he."
• (Kathy Bates) "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."

Constance Shulman as Missy

• (Constance Shulman) "I hear they've got an assertive training class for southern women."
• (Constance Shulman) "Of course that's a contradiction in terms."

• (Teacher) "When we think of romance and marriage, what is the first thought that comes into your mind?"
• (Constance Shulman) "Divorce."

Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode

• (Jessica Tandy) "Did you know they took my gallbladder out?"
• (Kathy Bates) "Uh, no I didn't."
• (Jessica Tandy) "Oh yes, still in the hospital in a jar. I guess that's where they keep them."
• (Kathy Bates) "I guess."

• (Jessica Tandy) "After Ruth died and the railroad stopped runnin', the cafe shut down and everybody just scattered to the winds. It was never more'n just a little knockabout place, but now that I look back on it, when that cafe closed, the heart of the town just stopped beatin'. It's funny how a little place like this brought so many people together."

• (Jessica Tandy) "You git yourself some hormones."

• (Jessica Tandy) "I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends."

• (Jessica Tandy) "All these people'll live as long as you remember 'em."

• (Jessica Tandy) "Hey Evelyn, somebody stole my house."

• (Jessica Tandy) "Oh, what I wouldn't give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like we used to have at the cafe. Ooh."

• (Jessica Tandy) "It's good to see you're so happy, and you've slimmed down quite a bit these last few weeks."
• (Kathy Bates) "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?"
• (Jessica Tandy) "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."

• (Jessica Tandy) "A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same."

• (Jessica Tandy) "I'm worried about my little friend Evelyn. She said her husband, Ed, would just be sitting around watching his sports on TV -- and she has an urge to hit him in the head with a baseball bat."
• (Janeen) "Oh hell, that seems normal to me."

Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "This doesn't have anything to do with trains, does it?"

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "I can understand having a funeral for an arm, I just don't know WHY she insists on calling him Stump."
• (Cicely Tyson) "Miss Idgie says everybody else will be calling him that, we might as well be the first."

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "I've been thinkin', maybe I should move on because of Frank and all. I just -- don't want you to feel like you have to look out for us. I just don't want to be selfish, that's all. Maybe if I wasn't here you'd settle down."
• (Mary Stuart Masterson & Nancy Moore Atchison) "I'm as settled as I ever hope to be."

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Don't you ever say never to me."

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "My daddy always used to say there was a separate god for children."

• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Idgie Threadgoode, you ol' beecharmer, you."

Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch

• (Gailard Sartain) "What the hell's this?"
• (Kathy Bates) "That's a low cholesterol meal. Happy Valentine's."
• (Gailard Sartain) "God. Are you trying to kill me?"
• (Kathy Bates) "If I was gonna kill you, I'd use my hands."

Timothy Scott as Smokey Lonesome

• (Timothy Scott) "Like I said, you ain't goin' nowhere with Miss Ruth's baby."

Macon McCalman as Prosecutor Percy

• (Macon McCalman) "Why did you go with Idgie Threadgoode?"
• (Judge) "Answer the question Mrs. Bennett."
• (Mary-Louise Parker) "Because she -- she's the best friend I ever had, and I love her."

• (Judge) "Percy, it don't look like you got a case at all. In the first place, there's no body. Second, we got us a preacher nobody's gonna dispute --"
• (Macon McCalman) "But Your Honor --"
• (Judge) "I'm tellin' you, What you got is a whole lotta nothing. I say Frank Bennett got himself drunk, drove into the river and was long ago eaten up and I don't give a good god****. What we got us here is a case of accidental death. Case dismissed."

Cicely Tyson as Sipsey

• (Cicely Tyson) "Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass."

• (Cicely Tyson) "It's all right, honey. Let her go. Let her go. You know, Miss Ruth was a lady. And a lady always knows when to leave."

Lois Smith as Mama Threadgoode

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