Nadine Hightower Quotes in Nadine (1987)

Vernon Hightower: Damn it, woman, I'm trying to get the Blue Bonnet refinanced.

Nadine Hightower: If you ask me, the Blue Bonnet's...

Vernon Hightower: I didn't ask. There is no way they're gonna let me have that money unless you agree to the divorce and promise to make no claim on the Bonnet.

Nadine Hightower: Do you see the keys to a new Buick convertible with white sidewall tires, a radio and air conditioner? When you see the keys in my hand, you'll see my name on those papers. Now you got that, slick?

Vernon Hightower: [points to his beat-up old pickup truck] You see that Chevy? You see that busted headlight? You see that baling wire? You think I'd be driving in that if I could afford a new Buick?

Nadine Hightower: [she notices a blonde sitting in the truck] And who might that be?

Vernon Hightower: That happens to be Renee Lomax. She's the Uvalde High School Pecan Queen of 1947.

Nadine Hightower: Ain't she a little on the cheap side?

Vernon Hightower: Who?

Nadine Hightower: Miss Low-Rent Lust back there.

Vernon Hightower: Renee? Are you kidding? She's got a good job with the Lone Star Beer Company.

Nadine Hightower: She don't look that smart to me.

Vernon Hightower: Well, she's smart enough to work in Accounts Receivable.

Nadine Hightower: I don't know, Vernon. She looks a little on the chubby side to be a pecan queen.

Vernon Hightower: Well, at least she doesn't spend all her time finding fault with me.