The Great Santini (1979)

Lisa Jane Persky: Mary Anne Meechum

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Quotes 

• Mary Anne Meechum : Hey Dad, why do you love me more than your other children?

  Bull Meechum : Beat it, I'm reading the sports page.

  Mary Anne Meechum : Let's have a conversation Dad. Let's bare our souls and get to know one another.

  Bull Meechum : I don't want you to get to know me. I like being an enigma, like a Chink. Now scram.

  Mary Anne Meechum : Am I a Meechum Dad? Can girls be real Meechums; girls without jump shots? Or am a simple form of Meechum, like in biology. Mary Anne, the one-celled Meechum.

  Bull Meechum : Mary Anne scram, I'm starting to lose my temper; Lilian!

  Mary Anne Meechum : [falls to the ground]  Dad, I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant by a negro Daddy. His name is Rufus, I didn't wanna tell you but since we're baring our souls to each other. Rufus is a pacifist; a pacifist homosexual.

  Bull Meechum : Jesus H. Christ! Lilian, I'm going to the club. I'll see you all at the game! I can't stand it around here!

  [storms off as Mary Anne follows him] 

  Mary Anne Meechum : But you'll get to like him after awhile Dad. Dwarfs are easy to like, especially when they're bald and cross-eyed... Dad... Dad... *Dad*!

• Mary Anne Meechum : He does remind me someone from the movies, but it's not Rhett Butler.

  Karen Meechum : Who's that?

  Mary Anne Meechum : Godzilla!

• Mary Anne Meechum : I hate this place.

  Lillian Meechum : Now sugar, you've got to open yourself to a town. You've been in the corps long enough to know that.

  Mary Anne Meechum : I am not in the corps.

  Matthew Meechum : Says you!

  Bull Meechum : Shut your little yaps! Now here it is sports fans, Beaufort S.C.!

• [At a high school dance] 

  Mary Anne Meechum : Can you believe dad bought me this dress? He can be so childishly sentimental sometimes. Isn't this ridiculous?

  [Ben dips Mary Anne] 

  Ben Meechum : [joking]  My darling, there's an enormous booger in your nose.

  [Mary Anne and Ben start laughing out loud] 

• Bull Meechum : I didn't know you looked so stacked, sports fans.

  Mary Anne Meechum : How sicko sexual can you get?

• [Walking down the hall at school] 

  Mary Anne Meechum : They're staring at us like we're freaks or something.

  Ben Meechum : No they're no. Look, just pick someone out. Go on up to them and say, "Hi my name's Mary Anne Meechum. I'm new in town, like you for a friend." Just like that.

• Lillian Meechum : Your father is very nervous about this game. Look at me, youg lady! Look at me! You've got to interpret the signals he gives off!

  Mary Anne Meechum : No problem! He always gives off the signals of a psychopathic killer, so it really doesn't matter how you interpret them !

• Mary Anne Meechum : [sarcastically, as they drive into Beaufort, SC]  Gee, and to think I mistook it for Paris, France.

• Bull Meechum : Okay, Hogs, I've listened to you bellyache about moving to this hew town. This said bellyaching will end as of 1530 hours, will not affect the morale of this squadron henceforth. Do I make myself clear?

  Ben Meechum , Mary Anne Meechum , Karen Meechum , Matthew Meechum : Yes sir!