Where the Heart Is (2000)

Ashley Judd: Lexie Coop

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Quotes 

• Orderly : Lexie, one of your kids is on the phone.

  Lexie Coop : Which one?

  Orderly : Oh, I don't know. Pez? Twinkie? One of 'em.

• Lexie Coop : Americus? What kind of a name is Americus?

  Novalee Nation : I wanted her to have a strong name.

  Lexie Coop : Well, I guess I shouldn't talk. I named my kids after snack foods: Brownie, Praline, Cherry and Baby Ruth.

• Lexie Coop : [driving up to the curb]  Hi! Sorry honey but I made it.

  Novalee Nation : Was it a big inconvenience?

  Lexie Coop : Novalee, I have 5 children. Everything is an inconvenience. Mind if I drive real slow on the way home? I'd like to pretend it's a vacation.

• Lexie Coop : This old gypsy woman once told me that if you jump backwards nine times before the sun come up you won't be pregnant. Well, I jumped so far I had to take a bus back and then I had twins.

• Lexie Coop : Honey, I know that your mother walked out on you and what that butthole Willie Jack did. But that is what makes them trash, not you.

• Lexie Coop : He told you he loved you, and you didn't say anything?

  Novalee Nation : I'm a dope. I'm such a dope, but I was scared. I was confused. The whole thing is just strange.

  Lexie Coop : Honey, don't take this the wrong way, but Forney is strange.

• Novalee Nation : I think I might be pregnant. You remember that guy I told you about last month?

  Lexie Coop : The good-lookin' mechanic?

  Novalee Nation : I don't know what's wrong with me. I didn't even want to be with him.

  Lexie Coop : Didn't he use anything?

  Novalee Nation : Just me.

• Novalee Nation : At the end of each letter he writes, "Please tell your mother I extend my best wishes."

  Lexie Coop : Hot.

• Lexie Coop : Forney is in love with you! Tell me you don't know that.

  Novalee Nation : It's just not like that with me and Forney.

  Lexie Coop : I have seen him. He loves you. He loves the way you walk, he loves your hair, he loves everything about you.

  Novalee Nation : Forney and me we're just not that way. Forney's different from us. He went to college. His family had money.

  Lexie Coop : What are you trying to say? That you're not good enough for him?

• Lexie Coop : My kids could turn this place into a dump before the door closes.

• Lexie Coop : Brownie! Brownie! Do not lasso your sister!

• Lexie Coop : [eating Novalee's breakfast]  I hope you're not hungry.