O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Holly Hunter: Penny

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Quotes 

• Penny Wharvey McGill : I've spoken my piece and counted to three.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : She counted to three. Goddamit! She counted to three. Sonofabitch!

• Penny Wharvey McGill : Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects. He's bona fide. What are you?

• Penny Wharvey McGill : The only good thing you ever did for the gals was get hit by that train!

• [last lines] 

  Penny Wharvey McGill : Well, we need that ring.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake.

  Penny Wharvey McGill : Uh-uh.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : A 9,000 hectare lake.

  Penny Wharvey McGill : I don't care if it's 90,000...

  Ulysses Everett McGill : But honey...

  Penny Wharvey McGill : that lake was not my doing.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Of course not honey...

  Penny Wharvey McGill : I counted to three, honey.

  Ulysses Everett McGill : No, wait, honey! Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task!

• Ulysses Everett McGill : Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?

  Penny Wharvey McGill : Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame?

  Ulysses Everett McGill : Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.

• Woolworths Customer : Who is that man?

  Penny Wharvey McGill : He's not my husband... Just a drifter, I guess... Just some no-account drifter.

• Penny Wharvey McGill : I can, I am, and I will.

• Penny Wharvey McGill : I gotta think about the little Wharvey gals! They look to me for answers! Vernon can s'port 'em and buy 'em lessons on the clarinet!