Oklahoma! (1999 TV Movie)
Maureen Lipman: Aunt Eller
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Quotes
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Laurey : I don't see why this had to happen when everything was so fine.
Aunt Eller : Now don't let your mind run on it.
Laurey : [sobbing] I won't ever forget, I tell ya. Never will.
Aunt Eller : That's alright, Laurey baby. You can't forget, just don't try to. Oh, lots of things happen to folks. Sickness or being poor and hungry, being old and a feared to die. That's the way it is, cradle to grave, and you can stand it. There's just one way: you gotta be hardy. You gotta be. You can't deserve the sweet and tender in life unless'n you're tough.
Laurey : I wisht I was the way you are!
Aunt Eller : Oh, fiddlesticks. Scrawny and old... why, you couldn't hire me to be the way I am.
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Aunt Eller : She likes you.
Curly : If she liked me any more she'd stick the dogs on me.
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Curly : Aunt Eller, where'd you get such an uppity niece that wouldn't pay no heed to me?
[thinks for a second]
Curly : Who's the best bronc buster in this 'ere territory?
Aunt Eller : You, I bet.
Curly : And the best bull-dogger in seventeen counties?
[waits for an answer]
Curly : Me, that's who. And looky here, I'm handsome, ain't I?
Aunt Eller : Purty as a pitcher.
Curly : And curly headed, ain't I? And bow-legged from the saddle for god knows how long, ain't I?
Aunt Eller : Couldn't stop a pig on the road!
Curly : Then what else does she want, the damn she mule?
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[last spoken lines]
Aunt Eller : Why Ado Annie, where on earth have you been?
Ado Annie : Will and me had a little misunderstanding. But he explained it fine.