This Boy's Life (1993)

Ellen Barkin: Caroline

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Quotes 

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : You're so afraid that someone's gonna get something that you never had. It's what makes you mean. And you know something, Dwight? One of these days, all of that meanness is gonna snap back and slap you right in the face.

• Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Mom, you can leave too, I'm leaving, you don't have to stay here for this shit.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I don't, do I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : No, you don't!

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I could leave with you right now, couldn't I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Yes, you could.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I could walk right out that door, couldn't I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Yes!

  Dwight Hansen : What?

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I'm leaving you, Dwight.

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : [smacks Dwight with a baseball bat]  Get away from him! Get away from him or I'll kill you! What's going on here?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : I got this scholarship and he went nuts! He's crazy and I'm leaving!

  Dwight Hansen : Great. Go! Finally! About time! About time! Go!

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Oh, no, no. Don't worry. I'm gone! Just give me my paper route money.

  Dwight Hansen : That money's "gone with the wind".

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : No!

  Dwight Hansen : That's right, I spent it all as you made it, for things that we needed! It's gone! Poof! Poof!

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : [furious]  You know something, Dwight? It's not so much that you been dissapointing. It's that you've been consistantly dissapointing!

  Dwight Hansen : Oh, fancy, fancy talk. Fancy talk for a whore. Fancy talk. Oh, yeah! I know a thing or two about a thing or two. I've got friends in this town and they tell me things. And I found out some guy down at that campaign headquarters, he found you a job in Washington, D.C. You're gonna run off with him aren't ya, Miss Whore? Aren't ya, Miss Whore?

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : You are pathetic.

  Dwight Hansen : Miss Whore. Liar! Liar, whore! Liar, whore! And you know it!

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Mom, you can leave too. I'm leaving. You don't have to stay here for this shit!

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I don't, do I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : No, you don't!

  Dwight Hansen : You're a liar and a whore!

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I could leave with you right now, could I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Yes, you could.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I could walk right out that door, could I?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : Yes!

  Dwight Hansen : What?

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : What did he do?

  Principal Shippy : He violated school property and he flouted the law.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : Can you say that in English, please?

  Principal Shippy : He wrote obscene words on the wall.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : Did you do it?

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : [shakes his head] 

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : He didn't do it.

  Principal Shippy : He wrote obscene words on the wall.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : What obscene words?

  Principal Shippy : "Fuck You."

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : That's one obscene word.

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : You know something, Dwight, it's not so much that you've been disappointing. It's that you've been consistently disappointing.

• [Toby notices that his prep school application forms were in the garbage] 

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : My application forms must've come today and he threw 'em away!

  Dwight Hansen : Hey, I thought I was helping him. Thought I save him some trouble, 'cause he got no chance of gettin' into some fancy prep school.

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : You always got your nose pressed up against the big shop window, haven't ya, Dwight?

  Dwight Hansen : What?

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : You're so afraid that someone else is gonna get something you never had. It's what make you mean. And you know something, Dwight? One of these days, all that meanness is gonna snap back and slap you right in the face!

  Dwight Hansen : Oh, I'm so scared. I'm so scared! I'm SO SCARED! Oh-oh-oh! This is all you gave me for dinner?

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : I don't have another get-up-and-go left in me. Do you understand that?

• [last lines] 

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I love you.

  Tobias 'Toby' Wolff : I know that, mom. I've always known that.

  Bus driver : All aboard!

• Caroline Wolff Hansen : [interrupting Toby and Dwight fighting]  Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

  Dwight Hansen : What's the matter, honey?

  Caroline Wolff Hansen : I will not referee!