Idgie Threadgoode: 20 Movie Quotes with Audio – Page 2

Updated: Jul 18, 2026

Movie quotes spoken by Idgie Threadgoode, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

11 You all right? -Well, sometimes I get a little dizzy looking down. -Don't look down.

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

12 You talk about give unto others. -Yes, but this food isn't yours to give. -That's church talk.

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

13 Okay, time to get off. We gotta jump. -Jump? -Yeah, jump. The next stop's five miles down the tracks. I don't want to walk that far back.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

14 You like honey? -Yeah, I like honey. -Fresh honey? -Yeah. -Me too.

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

15 There it is. -There what is? -You'll see soon enough.

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

16 Well, listen, Grady, tell you what. Next time those some people come here, I'm gonna ask 'em if they don't want anybody to know who they are under those sheets they're wearing when they go marching around in one of those stupid parades you boys have.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

17 I threatened to kill him, but we were never, what you might say, properly introduced.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

18 Just the wife. The child came later. -How much later? -The usual. Nine months.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

19 Hey, did I ever tell you the story about the oysters? All the millions of 'em just lying around... -And God put sand in one of 'em, and it makes a pearl. -Oh...

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

20 I think it's hog-boiling time. -No, ma'am. It ain't cold enough. -It's hog-boiling time.

Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)