Curse of the Starving Class (1994)

Kathy Bates: Ella Tate

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• Ella Tate : You know what this is? It's a curse. I can feel it. Goes back in back to little cells and genes. It's tiny little swimming things just making up their minds without us. Plotting in the womb. Before that even, in the air... we pass it on. We inherit it. And pass it down. Just goes on and on like that. Without us.

• Wesley Tate : [talking about their farm]  I ain't leaving.

  Ella Tate : We're all leaving. He sealed the deal, the whole enchilada. Over. Including your father.

  Wesley Tate : You're too late, you missed the boat. He already sold it.

  Ella Tate : What? Where is he? Couldn't sell a goddamn shoe-string.

• Emma Tate : We do not belong to the starving class!

  Ella Tate : There's no such thing as a starving class.

  Emma Tate : There is so. There's a starving class people and we're not part of it!

• Ella Tate : We're not rich, we're not poor.

  Wesley Tate : What are we, then?

  Ella Tate : Somewhere in between.

• Weston Tate : So, now where you've been at? That fancy lawyer of yours?

  Ella Tate : I've been to jail, like I said.

  Weston Tate : On visit?

  Ella Tate : Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.

  Weston Tate : What?

  Ella Tate : Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...

• Ella Tate : [notices Wesley urinating on Emma's chart project]  Oh my Lord! Emma.

  Emma Tate : Wait...

  Ella Tate : Emma, honey, I think you better come in here.

  Emma Tate : [in shock,after some pause]  What kind of family is this?

  Ella Tate : I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen.

  Emma Tate : I'm leaving.