Annie Hoover Quotes in J. Edgar (2011)

Annie Hoover: [Contemptuously to Edgar] I would rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son.

Annie Hoover: We are the sinners, Edgar. We tolerated lawlessness in the land until it grew to diabolical proportions.

[later in the night Annie Hoover passes away, Edgar is alone in his bedroom and wakes up to grab his rosary]

Annie Hoover: [in the air he hears his mothers voice] Stay strong, Edgar.

[Edgar then goes to the mirror as his mother helped teach him to, to get over his childhood stutter, holding out and dressing into his mothers shirt]

Annie Hoover: [again in the air Edgar hears his mothers voice] You stay strong, Edgar.

J. Edgar Hoover: [Edgar screams out and tears apart his rosary in a frantic shiver] Stay strong! Uhh!

[Edgar finally collapses in tears and curls himself in a ball]