Penny Wharvey McGill Quotes in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Penny Wharvey McGill: The only good thing you ever did for the gals was get hit by that train!

Penny Wharvey McGill: I've spoken my piece and counted to three.

Ulysses Everett McGill: She counted to three. Goddamit! She counted to three. Sonofabitch!

Penny Wharvey McGill: Vernon here's got a job. Vernon's got prospects. He's bona fide. What are you?

[last lines]

Penny Wharvey McGill: Well, we need that ring.

Ulysses Everett McGill: Well that ring is at the bottom of a pretty durn big lake.

Penny Wharvey McGill: Uh-uh.

Ulysses Everett McGill: A 9,000 hectare lake.

Penny Wharvey McGill: I don't care if it's 90,000...

Ulysses Everett McGill: But honey...

Penny Wharvey McGill: that lake was not my doing.

Ulysses Everett McGill: Of course not honey...

Penny Wharvey McGill: I counted to three, honey.

Ulysses Everett McGill: No, wait, honey! Finding one little ring in the middle of all that water is one hell of a heroic task!

Ulysses Everett McGill: Why are you telling our gals that I was hit by a train?

Penny Wharvey McGill: Lots of respectable people have been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train. What was I gonna tell them, that you got sent to the penal farm and I divorced you from shame?

Ulysses Everett McGill: Uh, I take your point. But it does put me in a damn awkward position, vis-a-vis my progeny.