The Great Santini Quotes

The Great Santini is a television program that first aired in 1970 . The Great Santini ended in 1970.

It features Charles A. Pratt as producer, Elmer Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Ralph Woolsey as head of cinematography.

The Great Santini is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Great Santini is 115 minutes long. The Great Santini is distributed by Orion Pictures.

The cast includes: Lisa Jane Persky as Mary Anne Meechum, Michael O'Keefe as Bull Meechum, Michael O'Keefe as Ben Meechum, Stan Shaw as Toomer, Blythe Danner as Lillian Meechum, Brian Andrews as Matthew Meechum, and Julie Anne Haddock as Karen Meechum.

The Great Santini Quotes

Michael O'Keefe as Ben Meechum

• (Michael O'Keefe) "Who the hell asked you anything?"
• (Blythe Danner) "Don't you talk to me like that. Now, he beat you and it was beautiful."

• (Michael O'Keefe) "You're looking at Bull Meechum now, and this is the eye of the storm."

• (Michael O'Keefe) "I didn't know you looked so stacked, sports fans."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "How sicko sexual can you get?"

• (Michael O'Keefe) "I hope he dies out there with the rest of the snakes."

• (Michael O'Keefe) "There's those that has got 'em, Ben, and those that don't."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "What?"
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Gonads, Son. Big brass ones."

• (Michael O'Keefe) "You know what Toomer? This is terrific. There's a shooting star."
• (Stan Shaw) "There's no star boy. That's the tear of infant Jesus falling on such a sinful, hateful world. This is sure one fine night, isn't it buddy boy?"
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Yep, this is one fine night Toomer."

• (Michael O'Keefe) "Would you like to die in action, Dad?"
• (Michael O'Keefe) "It's better than dying of piles."

Blythe Danner as Lillian Meechum

• (Blythe Danner) "I am not going anywhere at 3:00 in the morning. No, I am not moving this is ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense."

• (Blythe Danner) "Your father is very nervous about this game. Look at me, youg lady. Look at me. You've got to interpret the signals he gives off."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "No problem. He always gives off the signals of a psychopathic killer, so it really doesn't matter how you interpret them."

Lisa Jane Persky as Mary Anne Meechum

• (Lisa Jane Persky) "They're staring at us like we're freaks or something."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "No they're no. Look, just pick someone out. Go on up to them and say, "Hi my name's Mary Anne Meechum. I'm new in town, like you for a friend." Just like that."

• (Lisa Jane Persky) "He does remind me someone from the movies, but it's not Rhett Butler."
• (Julie Anne Haddock) "Who's that?"
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Godzilla."

• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Hey Dad, why do you love me more than your other children?"
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Beat it, I'm reading the sports page."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Let's have a conversation Dad. Let's bare our souls and get to know one another."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "I don't want you to get to know me. I like being an enigma, like a Chink. Now scram."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Am I a Meechum Dad? Can girls be real Meechums; girls without jump shots? Or am a simple form of Meechum, like in biology. Mary Anne, the one-celled Meechum."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Mary Anne scram, I'm starting to lose my temper; Lilian."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Dad, I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant by a negro Daddy. His name is Rufus, I didn't wanna tell you but since we're baring our souls to each other. Rufus is a pacifist; a pacifist homosexual."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Jesus H. Christ. Lilian, I'm going to the club. I'll see you all at the game. I can't stand it around here."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "But you'll get to like him after awhile Dad. Dwarfs are easy to like, especially when they're bald and cross-eyed --.Dad --.Dad -- Dad.."

• (Lisa Jane Persky) "Can you believe dad bought me this dress? He can be so childishly sentimental sometimes. Isn't this ridiculous?"
• (Michael O'Keefe) "My darling, there's an enormous booger in your nose."

• (Lisa Jane Persky) "I hate this place."
• (Blythe Danner) "Now sugar, you've got to open yourself to a town. You've been in the corps long enough to know that."
• (Lisa Jane Persky) "I am not in the corps."
• (Brian Andrews) "Says you."
• (Michael O'Keefe) "Shut your little yaps. Now here it is sports fans, Beaufort S.C.."

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