Cindy: Beautiful day outside, isn't it? Nothing like good old southern California for lots of sunshine.
Carla Moran: I was raped.
Quotes from Barbara Hershey movies and TV shows
Carla Moran: Your halo is burning.
Beth: You're sick.
William Foster: Sick? You want to see sick? Take a walk around this town, that's sick.
Prendergast: You ain't kidding. Would you believe it that I used to fish right here? This very spot? Now they tell you don't eat the fish, it's poisonous. You can't even swim in the water, it'll give you some kind of bacterial infection. So how's that for sick?
William Foster: I'm having a private moment with my family. We'd like to be left alone.
Prendergast: I'm leaving soon. I'm retiring to Arizona, Lake Havasu City. You ever been there?
William Foster: That's not what I mean!
Prendergast: They call it a lake but it's really just a big bowl of muddy water. But the wife thinks it's paradise. Everybody has their own idea what they think paradise is. Take me, for instance. You know what I thought Paradise was?
William Foster: What?
Prendergast: If you'll excuse me, making babies. Ain't that a kick? Making babies. This your little girl? Beautiful! She's special.
Myra Fleener: A man your age comes to a place like this, either he's running away from something or he has nowhere else to go.
Coach Norman Dale: What I'm doing here has nothing to do with you.
Myra Fleener: Just stay away from Jimmy. I don't want him coaching in Hickory when he's fifty.
Myra Fleener: Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place.
Coach Norman Dale: Why, do you have something against this place?
Coach Norman Dale: You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name.
Myra Fleener: What a pleasant thing to say.