The War at Home (1996)
Kathy Bates: Maurine Collier
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Quotes
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Maurine Collier : I was taught to honor your father and mother. That's what I've tried to teach... I guess I'm not good enough to deserve that kind of respect!
Karen Collier : Of course you are.
Maurine Collier : [Karen preheats the oven and comes back to the table]
[about Jeremy]
Maurine Collier : I just don't understand what went wrong. His whole life he was so grown-up, so polite.
Karen Collier : War changes people.
Maurine Collier : War doesn't make you rude to your parents!
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Maurine Collier : [the phone is ringing] Tell whoever it is I died.
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Maurine Collier : I wasn't screaming. I was using my loud voice.
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Maurine Collier : Well, unless we're going to have a nuclear attack of some kind, it's hard to imagine what else could go wrong.
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Maurine Collier : I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.
Jeremy Collier : What about the Indians?
Maurine Collier : Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
Jeremy Collier : That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
Maurine Collier : Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
Jeremy Collier : Oh no, they weren't.
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Maurine Collier : What the hell are you trying to do?
Jeremy Collier : Nothing.
[walks away]
Maurine Collier : [calls after him] What is the matter with you?
Jeremy Collier : You are what's the matter with me!
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Uncle Howe : I always say, you give me forty-five minutes and a Bible and I can prove conclusively that Noah's Ark could not have been in Turkey!
Brenda : Oh, he can.
Maurine Collier : I should study my Bible more.
Uncle Howe : Well, it had to be somewhere, now, I don't know where exactly, well, I'm not up on it like I should be. But somewhere in the Alps.
