Idgie Threadgoode Movie Quotes & Lines – 20 Classics (+ Audio)

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1 Put your money where your mouth is, Mr. Sheriff.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

2 I guess you already know that there are angels masquerading as people walking around this planet, and your mom's the bravest one of those.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

3 You'll never jump, will you? -Don't say never to me.

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode; Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

4 Then the temperature dropped so fast, the whole lake just froze. And then the ducks took off and took the lake with 'em. Now that lake's somewhere over in Georgia, that's the way I hear it. -Go on now.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

5 That's right, you gump-faced, blown-up, baboon-assed bastard!

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

6 I can't believe he actually swore on a Bible. -Well, not really. If that judge had looked any closer, he'd have seen it was really a copy of Moby _.

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode; Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

7 I don't know what's worse, church or jail.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

8 Did I ever tell you about Eva's three-legged dog? -How it never felt sorry for itself, and how I ought to be smarter than a dumb dog and not feel sorry for myself?

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

9 You a politician or does lying just run in your family?

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

10 Don't you think we should get off the train? It's starting to move. -No. The fun just started!

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode; Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)