Steel Magnolias

"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."

"Oh get with it, Clairee. This is the '80s. If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past."

"I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."

"I'm not crazy, M'Lynn, I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years!"

"Well, as somebody always said: if you can't say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me!"

"Sometimes laughter is a matter of life and death."

"The funniest movie ever to make you cry."

"Sally Field - Mary Lynn "M'Lynn" Eatenton"

"Dolly Parton - Truvy Jones"

"Shirley MacLaine - Louisa "Ouiser" Boudreaux"

"Daryl Hannah - Annelle Dupuy Desoto"

"Olympia Dukakis - Clairee Belcher"

"Julia Roberts - Shelby Eatenton Latcherie"

"Tom Skerritt - Drum Eatenton"

"Sam Shepard - Spud Jones"

"Bill McCutcheon - Owen Jenkins"

"Ann Wedgeworth - Aunt Fern Thornton"

"Dylan McDermott - Jackson Latcherie"

"Kevin J. O'Connor (actor) - Sammy Desoto"

"Tom Hodges - Louie Jones"

"Jonathan Ward - Jonathan Eatonton"

"Knowl Johnson - Tommy Eatonton"