Texasville (1990)

Annie Potts: Karla Jackson

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• Nellie : How come I never get a honeymoon?

  Karla : You've had plenty of honeymoons. You have one every time you meet a boy!

• Karla : I don't know what you've got to smile about!

  Duane Jackson : Well, it was either smile about nothing or cry about everything... And I didn't feel like cryin'.

• Karla : Duane, why are you poking that gun in the water?

  Duane : I was thinkin' of shootin' my dick off. It's caused me nothin' but trouble my whole life.

  Karla : Well, just 'cause you're havin' a mid-life crisis, I don't think you ought to try and shoot your dick off.

  Duane : Why not? It don't work half the time, anyway.

  Karla : Well, I wouldn't be the one to know about that. But, it's a small target and if you miss, you're going to ruin our new hot tub.

• Karla : It broke my heart seein' Sonny in the picture show. Then I realized that wasn't what broke it. It was already broken. You broke it. Seein' him just made me realize I didn't have a whole heart anymore.

• Karla : You ought not to leave me alone on days like this. I can't even get drunk! The faster I drink, faster things happen to sober me up.

• Karla : Everytime you call me "honey," there's a lie involved.

• Karla : You ought not to leave me alone on days like this. I can't even get drunk. The faster I drink, the faster things happen to sober me up.

• Duane : What'd the twins do?

  Karla : Julie posed for naked Polaroids for some 6th grader and Jack crawled up in the rafters of the shit house and dropped a brick on the toilet, the toilet broke and pretty much flooded things. They said they'd appreciate it if you'd come down before lunch.

• Karla : You worry me so much. What were you doin' up there?

  Sonny Crawford : Oh, I was just watching a movie. I mean, I imagined I was watching a movie. It's just kinda like I got this VCR and it's in my brain.

• Duane : You know who I saw swimmin' across that lake when I was out there? Jacy Farrow.

  Karla : I hear she's aged a lot.

• Karla : Put that gun down, Billie Anne. Little Barbette might have a trauma for life if you shot somebody right here by the hot tub.

• Karla : Junior just went down the tubes.

  Duane : Well, they can call his notes, they can call mine. Where is Junior?

  Karla : He took his lariat rope out of the pickup and went off walkin' down the hill. Probably hung himself by now.

• Karla : I don't want him to go away. I'll just build him a house out by us. And that way he won't get on your nerves.

  Duane : He's already gone away, honey. He's just gone away to the past.

• Karla : He always got some excuse for not havin' any fun.