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Hope Floats Quotes

Hope Floats is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Hope Floats ended in 1970.

It features Lynda Obst as producer, Dave Grusin in charge of musical score, and Caleb Deschanel as head of cinematography.

Hope Floats is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Hope Floats is 115 minutes long. Hope Floats is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Harry Connick Jr. as Justin Matisse, Mae Whitman as Bernice Pruitt, Sandra Bullock as Birdee Pruitt, Gena Rowlands as Ramona Calvert, Cameron Finley as Travis, and Michael Paré as Bill Pruitt.

Hope Floats Quotes

Michael Paré as Bill Pruitt

  • (Michael Paré) "Bernice, what do you think you're doing?"
  • (Mae Whitman) "I'm going with you."
  • (Michael Paré) "Honey, that's impossible."
  • (Mae Whitman) "But I'm going with you."
  • (Michael Paré) "No, you've got to stay here with your mama. Birdee, you gonna help me out here?"
  • (Mae Whitman) "You told me you wanted me with you, remember?"
  • (Michael Paré) "Listen, honey. I've gotta go. Now don't do this to yourself, OK? Don't make a scene. Now go on back inside, go ahead."
  • (Mae Whitman) "Stop it, daddy."
  • (Michael Paré) "Bernice, you know I'd take you with me if I could."
  • (Mae Whitman) "You can."
  • (Michael Paré) "Try to understand, baby. Connie and I, we need this time to ourselves, to try and make a go of it. Then I'll come back for you. I promise, I promise, I promise."
  • (Michael Paré) "Now go on inside, please."
  • (Mae Whitman) "You want me. You wrote it in your letter."
  • (Mae Whitman) "Please, let me in. YOU WANT ME."
  • (Michael Paré) "I'll always want you, Bernice. You're my little princess. But your mama, she needs you -- and you need her."
  • (Mae Whitman) "No I don't. I need you."
  • (Michael Paré) "I love you, Princess -- I gotta go."
  • (Mae Whitman) "NO. NOOOO. DADDY. PLEASE COME BACK. TAKE ME WITH YOU. NOOO. DADDY."
  • (Mae Whitman) "I WANT MY DADDY."

Gena Rowlands as Ramona Calvert

  • (Gena Rowlands) "You smell just delicious, Justin, you wearin' cologne?"
  • (Harry Connick Jr.) "Naw, just sweat with a little paint thinner mixed in."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "You have a birthday coming up. You want to tell me what you wish for?"
  • (Mae Whitman) "No."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "No? Well that's all right; I'll figure it out with my Grandma magic."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "Look at me. My life has no meaning or direction, and I'm happy."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "Boy, she had a face on her like a bucket of worms."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "Mothers always love their daughters, even if they show it poorly."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "Hey, I am still your mama, Missy. You move it."
  • (Gena Rowlands) "Look at me. My life has no meaning or direction, and I'm happy. Look at Kermit there. You think it's easy being green?"

Harry Connick Jr. as Justin Matisse

  • (Harry Connick Jr.) "Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me."
  • (Harry Connick Jr.) "Why don't you go down and get dressed? You gotta feel depressed looking like that."

Sandra Bullock as Birdee Pruitt

  • (Mr. Davis) "Uh, anything interesting come in while I was at lunch?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "No, sir."
  • (Mr. Davis) "Oh, oh, no. Look at these."
  • (Mr. Davis) "Birdee?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "No, what is wrong with this stupid machine?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "God I'm telling you, I --"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Okay, Mama. Stop pushin'."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Who's Big Dolores?"
  • (Cameron Finley) "She's the meanest and dumbest girl in school, but she keeps passing 'cause even teachers are afraid of big Dolores. She has her own gang too."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Once upon a time your mama knew what it meant to shine."
  • (Dot) "You look -- beautiful. Same old Birdee."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Same old Dot."
  • (Dot) "You have no idea who I am, do you?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "No. Ha, ha, sorry."
  • (Dot) "That's all right. When I knew you I was about seven inches shorter and 70 pounds heavier. We didn't exactly eat at the same lunch table."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Polka Dot?"
  • (Dot) "Oh, goodness."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Is that right?"
  • (Dot) "Yeah -- Nobody's called me that in a long time."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "You look fantastic."
  • (Dot) "Thank you."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "It's remarkable."
  • (Dot) "Was I really so awful before, Birdee?"
  • (Dot) "Oh, no-no-no, I just meant --"
  • (Dot) "I know what you meant. People change as they get older, we improve."
  • (Dot) "Gosh, you look exactly the same."
  • (Mr. Davis) "Occasionally we get pictures of a questionable nature"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Naked pictures?"
  • (Mr. Davis) "Oh, we never comment on them, ah, we just hand them over as if we haven't seen a thing."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "I understand, Mr. Davis --"
  • (Mr. Davis) "But first we make a copy. Now, we put them in the second draw under the counter."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Oh --"
  • (Mr. Davis) "And you can have a look anytime you want. Just don't take any of 'em home."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, alright."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Mom wake up. Oh God, please don't do this."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "People fall in love. They fall right back out. It happens all the time."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "I would walk through fire before I would break up a family, because I'm not a quitter."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "I would have stayed with you forever. I would have turned myself inside out for you."
  • (Michael Paré) "Birdee, I wouldn't have let you. People grow. They change. They have to."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "You think that I don't know that? I know that I'm not what I once was. I know that. But I haven't changed so much, that I would go and lie to someone that I love. God, I would walk through fire before I'd let them feel like they were nothing. And I would never break up anybody's home. Because I am not a quitter. I care about my family. I may not be the same person, but then again, neither are you. You're sad, you're weak, and you're -- shorter. If you want to know the truth."
  • (Michael Paré) "I'm in love with Connie. And this is my chance for a fresh start, and I'm taking it, I'm sorry."
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Then you should take it. If that's how you feel then you should take it. You and Connie deserve each other. You were lucky to have me. But you know what? I think I already got the best part of you. And she's standing right out there, and she's waiting for me. I don't know -- what's left just doesn't look so good anymore. So why'd you come back? You want my permission? You want my -- condolences? Why did you come back?"
  • (Michael Paré) "Well, I didn't want to do this to you now, Birdee, but I want a divorce."

Mae Whitman as Bernice Pruitt

  • (Mae Whitman) "My dad says that childhood is the happiest time of my life. But, I think he's wrong. I think my mom's right. She says that --"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will, too --"
  • (Mae Whitman) "Please don't have a talk with her mother. I'd rather die."
  • (Cameron Finley) "Don't worry. You will."
  • (Mae Whitman) "At home we had a pet skunk. Mama used to call it Justin Matisse. Do you think that's just a coincidence? All day long she would to scream, "You stink Justin Matisse." Then one day she just picked up a club and killed it."
  • (Harry Connick Jr.) "Now that's a sad story."
  • (Mae Whitman) "If you liked the skunk, which we didn't."
  • (Mae Whitman) "Mom, are you gonna marry Justin Matisse?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "Oh, honey, I'm not planning on getting married again for along time. What, you don't like Justin?"
  • (Mae Whitman) "No, it's not that. It's just that --"
  • (Sandra Bullock) "What is it? You can tell me."
  • (Mae Whitman) "I just don't want to be known as Bernice Matisse."
  • (Mae Whitman) "Is this where you were "cream of corn"?"
  • (Sandra Bullock) ""Queen of Corn," honey. Three years runnin'. A feat unsurpassed in the history of Smithville."

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