Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Abigail Breslin: Olive

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• Olive : Do you think there's a Heaven?

  Frank : Well, it's hard to say, Olive. I don't think anyone knows for sure.

  Olive : I know, but what do *you* think?

  Frank : Well... um... uh...

  Olive : I think there is.

  Frank : Think I'll get in?

  Olive : Yeah.

  Frank : Promise?

  Olive : Yeah.

• Olive : I'd like to dedicate this to my grandpa, who showed me these moves.

  Pageant MC : Aww, that is so sweet.

  [Audience applauds] 

  Pageant MC : Is he here? Where's your grandpa right now?

  Olive : In the trunk of our car.

• [from trailer] 

  Olive : Grandpa, am I pretty?

  Grandpa : You are the most beautiful girl in the world.

  Olive : You're just saying that.

  Grandpa : No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality.

• Olive : Do you eat ice cream?

  Miss California : Yes. My favorite is Chocolate Cherry Garcia... except technically I think it's a frozen yogurt.

• Olive : Why were you unhappy?

  Frank : I fell in love with someone...

  [interrupted by Grandpa blowing his nose] 

  Frank : ...who didn't love me back.

  Olive : Who?

  Frank : One of my grad students. I was very much in love with him.

  Olive : *Him*? You fell in love with a boy?

  Frank : Very much so.

  Olive : That's silly.

  Frank : You're right it was silly. It was very silly

  Grandpa : That's another word for it.

• Olive : [takes off her head phones and grandpa suddenly puts a pauses to his ongoing swearing]  What are you guys talking about?

  Grandpa : Politics.

• Olive : Mom? Dad?

  Richard : [half asleep]  What is it, hon?

  Olive : Grandpa won't wake up.

• Olive : [going over eye test pamphlets]  Mom, Dwayne's got 20/20 vision!

  Sheryl : I bet he does...

  Olive : Now, let's see if you're colorblind.

  [opens the pamphlet] 

  Olive : What's the letter in the circle?

  [Dwayne looks confused] 

  Olive : No in the circle. The letter... in the circle?

  Frank : Can you see a letter, Dwayne?

  Olive : It's an A. See? Right there?

  Frank : It's bright green.

  [to himself] 

  Frank : Oh man.

  [Dwayne scribbles anxiously on his notepad - "What?"] 

  Frank : Dwayne, I think you might be colorblind.

  [pause, Dwayne holds up his notepad again - "What?"] 

  Frank : You can't fly jets if you're colorblind.

  [Dwayne starts to panic, starts hitting the window and the chair in front of him, he then attempts to open the door] 

• Richard : [as he rolls up the sheet that covered Grandpa and packs the bags in the trunk of the bus]  You know, Olive, Grandpa would have been proud of you today.

  Olive : Really?

  Sheryl : You were great.

  Frank : You were better than great.

  Dwayne : You were incredible.

• Olive : Can I get the, uh, waffles? And, um, what does "a la mode-y" mean?

  Diner Waitress : Oh that means it comes with ice cream!

  Olive : Ok. A la mode-y then.

• Olive : What are you guys talking about?

  Grandpa : [thinks for a moment]  Politics.

  Olive : Oh.