Sweet Home Alabama quotes

41 total quotes

Mayor Kate Hennings
Melanie Carmichael
Multiple Characters

View Quote Andrew: You married your cousin?

View Quote Bobby Ray: Now, what'd I ever do to you?
Melanie: Oh, you didn't do anything to me, darlin'... or any other girl in town!

View Quote Jake: [not recognizing Melanie in her sunglasses] Can I help you?
Melanie: Well, for starters, you can get your stubborn ass down here and give me a divorce.
Jake: Are you shittin' me?
Melanie: I never fully understood that expression, but no, I am not shitting you.

View Quote Jake: Anybody think of anything in here that, uh, might bother Bobby Ray?
Wade: Uh, Clinton's breath.
Jake: You still the same Bobby Ray from last night?
Bobby Ray: Last time I checked, yeah.
Jake: [puts arm on shoulder] Well, then, let me buy you a drink.
Bobby Ray: Well, you're really not my type... [laughter]

View Quote Jake: C'mon, I wanna show you something.
Melanie: I can't.
Jake: Can't? Or won't?
Melanie: Both.
Jake: The girl I knew used to be fearless.
Melanie: The girl you knew didn't have a life.
Jake: Guess you better get on with it then.

View Quote Jake: Well, how about you say 'Hey there Jake, lookin' good. How's the family?'
Melanie: You expect me to say that you look good? What'd, they run out of soap at the Piggly Wiggly since I left?

View Quote Jake: What the hell is this? Chick food?
Melanie: Light beer. Less calories.

View Quote Jake: Whatever blows your dress up, darlin'. You go right ahead and spend your money.
Melanie: Oh, but darlin', I thought you said we should think of it as "our money."
[Jake stops cold]
Melanie: Just a guess: The words joint checking are flashing in your head right now.

View Quote Lurlynn: It's funny how things don't turn out...
Melanie: ...It's funny how they do

View Quote Lurlynn: You know he went up there?
Melanie: Who? Jake?
Lurlynn: I'm not supposed to know but Clinton let it slip once.
Melanie: When?
Lurlynn: About a year after you left. He told Clinton he'd never seen anything like it. He knew that it would take more than an apology to get you back. He'd have to conquer the world first. He's been trying ever since.
Melanie: That's why he kept sending the papers back.

View Quote Mayor Kate Hennings: You're just gonna let her humiliate you... with some bullshit about an old husband?!
Andrew: Yeah, I think I am. Excuse me.

View Quote Melanie: [on her cell phone] I can't. I'm in Alabama.
Tabatha Wadmore-Smith: [in New York] Oh... my God.

View Quote Melanie: And don't even pretend like you missed me.
Jake: Oh, I missed you all right, but at this range, my aim is bound to improve.

View Quote Melanie: Bobby Ray it's not like that.
Bobby Ray: No I'll tell you what it's not like. It's not like Jake's the only one you run out on.

View Quote Melanie: Now what kind of wife would I be if I didn't pick up after my husband?
Jake: The kind that don't live here.