Oklahoma! (1999 TV Movie)

Maureen Lipman: Aunt Eller

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Quotes 

• 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.

• Aunt Eller : She likes you.

  Curly : If she liked me any more she'd stick the dogs on me.

• 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?

• [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.