The Last Picture Show (1971)

Cloris Leachman: Ruth Popper

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• [last lines] 

  Ruth Popper : Never you mind, honey. Never you mind.

• Ruth Popper : Y'see? You shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it and it's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back.

• Sonny Crawford : How come you've stayed with the coach? You don't like him much.

  Ruth Popper : I wasn't brought up to leave my husband.

• Ruth Popper : Can't seem to do anything without crying about it.

• Ruth Popper : When I was 20 years old, I thought hairy-chested football coaches were about it.

• Ruth Popper : [to Sonny]  What am I doing apologizing to you? Why am I ALWAYS apologizing to you, you little bastard? Three months I've been apologizing to you without you even being here! I haven't done anything wrong. Why can't I quit apologizing? You the one ought to be sorry! I wouldn't still be in my bathrobe if it hadn't been for you. I'd have my clothes on hours ago. You're the one made me quit caring if I got dressed or not! I guess just because your friend got killed, you want me to forget what you did and make it all right? I'm not sorry for you. You'd have left Billy too, just like you left me. I bet you left him plenty of nights, whenever Jacy whistled. I wouldn't treat a dog that way. I guess you thought I was so old and ugly, you didn't owe me any explanation. You didn't need to be careful of me. There wasn't anything I could do about you and her, why should you be careful of me? You didn't love me. Look at me. Can't you even look at me?

  [long pause, as Sonny slowly turns to look at Ruth, blankly] 

  Ruth Popper : See? Shouldn't have come here. I'm around that corner now. You've ruined it. It's lost completely. Just your needing me won't make it come back.

• Sonny Crawford : Why'd you marry him?

  Ruth Popper : I don't know. My mother didn't like him. Maybe that was it.