Rowena Quotes in Biloxi Blues (1988)

Rowena: What's your name, honey?

Eugene Morris Jerome: It's Eug...

Rowena: Huge?

Eugene Morris Jerome: It's a HUGE name. It's Jack Bobby Lou Mulgreevey.

Rowena: Where you from, Bobby Lou?

Eugene Morris Jerome: [affecting a Southern accent] "Texarkana..."

Rowena: Is that Arkansas or Texas?

Eugene Morris Jerome: Arkansas, I think...

Rowena: You think?

Eugene Morris Jerome: Well, I was just born there. When I was two we moved to Georgia.

Rowena: You a cracker?

Eugene Morris Jerome: What's a cracka?

Rowena: Someone from Georgia.

Eugene Morris Jerome: Oh. Yeah, I'm a cracka...

[Eugene is trying to make "small talk" with Rowena]

Eugene Morris Jerome: Are you from Biloxi?

Rowena: No, Gulfport. My husband, too.

Eugene Morris Jerome: Your husband? You're married? My God, he'll KILL me if he finds me here!

Rowena: No he won't.

Eugene Morris Jerome: Yes he will!

Rowena: He won't. He's in the service. He knew about me before we were married. He's my best customer...

Eugene Morris Jerome: Customer? You charge your own husband?

Rowena: I mean he's my best lover.

[Rowena has divested herself of most of her clothing and is on the bed; beckons to Eugene]

Rowena: All right, now... come to mama.

Eugene Morris Jerome: [petrified] Please, don't say..."come to mama."

Keith Marks: I told you, I have to be on top. I have back problems.

Rowena: Among other things.

Rowena: [Dan has just returned from what Rowena assumes was a fight with Lillian] Are you all right? You don't even have to talk about it. It must have been awful, trapped out there with that wicked tongue. Well, I hope you gave it right back to her as good as she gave it.

Dan: [pauses and smiles to himself] Oh, I know I did!