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Favorite Line in Movie

posted 19 years ago by AZ-Sun
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Last summer I saw a preview clip of this movie on Entertainment Tonight and just one line of dialogue
made me want to see this movie. I never got a chance to see this movie in the theaters because I don't
think it ever played by me. I just rented it yesterday and watched it twice last night and will watch it again tonight.

Thank you Evelyn Ryan, your life was a great inspiration and an example of how to manifest your desires
and truly live the art of allowing by turning life's challenges into personal triumphs.

My favorite line in movie:

Kelly: "All I want in this world is to make you happy."

Evelyn: "I don't need you to make me happy, I just need you to leave me alone when I am."

Disempowered people believe that Life is happening to them.
Empowered people understand that Life is happening from them.

[–] athenaworth 19 years ago

I had to replay that part over and over to get it because my husband kept talking to me. Once I heard it I really liked it.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. Henry Laws (1916-1993)

[–] paulast 19 years ago

Yes, those lines really got to me, too.

I was aware of the film since I don't live far from Defiance, Ohio, but it never played here either!

What a shame. After seeing it, I can't believe that Dreamworks didn't get behind it and give it the release it deserved.

[–] brittbevis 19 years ago

My favourite line is: "EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!" Wonderful!

[–] grills 19 years ago

" I just have to sit down and have myself a happy cry!"

Cathy from Canada :O)

[–] MdmBadenov 19 years ago

I just saw it this afternoon (on DVD) and I think the line that made me laugh the most was Evelyn saying to Kelly (when he told her he was crying because he thought she was never coming back):

"I would never leave the kids with you!"

Note she didn't tell him she'd never leave *him*...only that it was absurd for him to think she'd leave their children w/ him longer than 1 afternoon.

[–] Raian-kun 19 years ago

"Death by Jell-o is highly unlikely!"

"Play it Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'"
"Meet me in Montauk."

[–] Scully-59 19 years ago

I completely agree with you MdmBadenov that was so funny! I loved it! "I would never leave the kids with you" ha ha I also liked the line "You dont have to make me happy, you just need to leave me alone when I am".
I think this movie should have got a better shot in theaters, it was great period... Just really great.

[–] srklondie 17 years ago

Yeah...I thought that was pretty funny, too.

[–] joannajuen 19 years ago

I love when Kelly thinks Evelyn was going to leave him (when she went to the Affadaisies) and Evelyn says, "I would never leave the kids with you." My favorite line, though, is "Defiance: A great place to leave," because I live in Defiance and I laugh every time I pass one of those signs now.

[–] Maryhc67 19 years ago

That was my favorite line as well, even if it did also make me angry. Did he think literally taking the food out of his family's mouths and buying booze with it would make his wife happy? *Shaking head*

Her reply was beyond fantastic, though.

[–] MdmBadenov 18 years ago

Yeah, I thought it was amazing too that he would say that to her given that it didn't seem he tried even in the least bit to do anything that would make her happy. If he had brought his paycheck home from work even one time w/o taking anything out of it for purchases at the liquor store, that would've made Evelyn happy for at least that week. What a completely ridiculous thing for Kelly to say under the circumstances.

[–] ljdj 19 years ago

How about what she says to her daughter (and this may be a bit paraphrased, but I think it's right):

"Forgive him so you can embrace the radiance of this day."

[–] guns_n_roses008 18 years ago

"give it time, give it time....."

[–] raquel575 18 years ago

I don't think he's trying to say that he thinks what he's done would ever make her happy...just that he would like to make her happy somehow...

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[–] shaejay03 18 years ago

"I'M TIRED OF THIS DAY, I NEED A NEW ONE."

I say that now, every time I've had a bad day.

[–] Locknine 17 years ago

Another good line from this movie is when Kelly is teasing the kids by saying he could fill the new freezer by shooting some deer or bunny rabbits and Tuff pipes up with "How about you don't spend so much money at the liquor store?"

[–] NeATOMeATTO 17 years ago

i love a lot of lines in this movie, "Death by Jell-O is highy unlikely"
and "im tired of this day i need a new one" but what i love is how when something went wrong in her family she would turn it into a jingle (example the split milk)

[–] PenTheater 16 years ago

"How about you don't spend so much money at the liquor store?"

Mine too. The dead silence and looks of everyone after that remark were deafening!

Thats when we knew Tuff was going to enter promenently into the movie.
A great scene.

[–] missing_boot 17 years ago

or the observation by the daughter that the breath of the helpful priest ("You just have to try harder") is very much like that of her alcoholic dad.

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

[–] livetolaugh 16 years ago

My favorite line (or lines) was when they were eating the soup near the end of the movie and the little girl says "There are bugs in this soup" and Evelynn says "Those are spices" and the little girl says "They have legs" and Evelynn says "Don't be silly, spices don't have legs". It wasn't supposed to be funny, considering the situation they were in but I actually laughed out loud at that part.

[–] SingGal90 16 years ago

I absolutely love the lines after the two young girls try to change the baby's diaper, making Evelynn late to the milkman, and she says to them something along the lines of "If I had gotten to the door any sooner, then the milkman would have left before the mailman got here, and we wouldn't have any milk, so it was all meant to be" It's just such a beautiful lesson, and she says it wholeheartedly believing it. So many of us say things like that without truly believing them.

Only thing to do is jump over the moooooooooooooon!

[–] djdylema78 16 years ago

"If you don't like to see me upset, then go away. Let me do it in peace."
Evelyn becomes vulnerable but at the same time she exudes strength, it just so completely embodies the character that is unfolding in the arc of her story.

[–] nosnojsirhc 16 years ago

'doesn't she look just like a fresh ear of corn on the cob?'

and the 'spices don't have legs' was pretty funny, too.