“Curse of the Starving Class” quotes

“- Emma Tate: We do not belong to the starving class!
- Ella Tate: There's no such thing as a starving class.
- Emma Tate: There is so. There's a starving class people and we're not part of it!”
Kristin Fiorella - Emma Tate
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate

“You can't just believe people when they look you in the eyes. You have to look behind them. And see what they're standing in front of, what they're hiding. Everybody's hiding.”
Kristin Fiorella - Emma Tate

“The only way a curse sticks is if you let it.”
James Woods - Weston Tate

“You know what this is? It's a curse. I can feel it. Goes back in back to little cells and genes. It's tiny little swimming things just making up their minds without us. Plotting in the womb. Before that even, in the air... we pass it on. We inherit it. And pass it down. Just goes on and on like that. Without us.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate

“- Emma Tate: Did you know my brother peed on the floor right there where you're standing?
- Taylor: God... you always talk this way to strangers?
- Emma Tate: It's the true. He peed right there on my chart.”
Kristin Fiorella - Emma Tate
Randy Quaid - Taylor

“- Ella Tate: We're not rich, we're not poor.
- Wesley Tate: What are we, then?
- Ella Tate: Somewhere in between.”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
Henry Thomas - Wesley Tate

“- Ella Tate: I've been to jail, like I said.
- Weston Tate: On visit?
- Ella Tate: Yeah, I was visiting our daughter.
- Weston Tate: What?
- Ella Tate: Possession of firearms, malicious vandalism, breaking and entering, assault, violation of equestrian regulations...”
Kathy Bates - Ella Tate
James Woods - Weston Tate