Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Levon Helm: Ted Webb

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Quotes 

• Doolittle Lynn : Mr. Webb, me and Loretta are fixin' to get married, if it's alright with you.

  Ted Webb : Go ask Clary.

  [Doolittle walks through the house to the kitchen] 

  Doolittle Lynn : Mrs. Webb, me and Loretta is thinkin' about gettin' married tomorrow.

  Clara Webb : Go ask Ted.

  [Doolittle walks back onto the porch, then back into the house] 

  Loretta Webb : Doolittle, what are you doin'?

  Doolittle Lynn : Ted says go ask Clary; Clary says go ask Ted; I don't know.

  Loretta Webb : Wait 'til they go to bed; then you can catch them together. 'Less they'll keep you runnin' back and forth all night long.

• [Doolittle walks out of the door after an argument with Loretta] 

  Loretta Lynn : Doolittle; are you leavin'?

  Doolittle Lynn : [come back in the house]  Naw, Loretta; *I* ain't leavin'.

  [Loretta walks up to her parents' house] 

  Ted Webb : Well, look whose back!

  Loretta Lynn : Doolittle's done throwed me out.

  Clara Webb : Maybe it ain't to late to stop you from ruinin' your life.

  Ted Webb : I believe married life is makin' you fat, girl.

  Clara Webb : [to herself]  Oh, no!

• Ted Webb : I ain't ever gonna see you again.

  Loretta Lynn : Yes you will, daddy.

  Ted Webb : Maybe. But I ain't never gonna see my little girl again. Them years has been robbed from me, like a thief broke in and robbed 'em.

• Lee Dollarhide : [after watching Doolittle drive his Jeep up the side of a hill to win a bet]  Damn! That son of a gun Doolittle don't know the meanin' of the word quit.

  Ted Webb : He sure went to a lot of trouble to get on top of a pile of nothin'.

• [the Webb children all receive new shoes, Loretta also receives a dress] 

  Webb child : Hey, how come she gets somethin' extry?

  Ted Webb : Jack, Loretta's getting to be a woman. Going on 14. Women's 'sposed to have pretty things.

  Webb Child : Aww, she ain't no woman, she ain't nothin' but a dad-burn kid.

• Ted Webb : Get up here. Let's see what you weigh.

  Loretta Lynn : 117? Boy, Daddy, this baby's gonna be a big one, ain't it? You weigh now.

  Ted Webb : It wouldn't do no good. I wouldn't know how much was me, how much was all that coal dust I swallowed.

• Ted Webb : Get up, Mommy. Do your squaw dance. See if we can't get a smile out of old sourpuss here.

• Ted Webb : Turn the radio off. We can't afford no new batteries.

• Clara Webb : Bad times is a-comin'.

  Ted Webb : Well, we don't need no fortune-teller to know that.

  Loretta Webb : [singing, while rocking her baby sister]  In the pines, in the pines, Where the sun never shines, And I shiver when the cold wind blows...

• Ted Webb : Doolittle's been up the house every day this week. I don't want him hanging around no more.

  Loretta Webb : Why?

  Ted Webb : 'Cause you ain't got no business hanging around with him. You're just a little girl, he's a grown-up man, wild as the devil.

  Loretta Webb : I love him, Daddy. And he's a-wanting me to marry him.

  Ted Webb : You ain't even 14 yet.