Will Varner: Thousands of acres out there. Millions of seeds put down in the ground, and every year the seeds come up again. Life goes on. Where's my crop, huh? What follows me? What happens when I'm dead?
Clara: You'll probably have the biggest funeral in the state of Mississippi.
Will Varner: That don't scare me none, just so long as there are plenty of Varners to mourn me.
Clara: Jody and I'll be there.
Will Varner: You and Jody and Jody's kids and yours and their kids, my descendants, sister, a line, a long line with my face stamped on 'em, my blood flowing in their veins.
Clara: All of that from the two of us?


--Joanne Woodward (as Clara Varner) in The Long, Hot Summer

Ram Bowen: You just picked the wrong guy for what you wanted.
Lillian Corning: Yeah?
Ram Bowen: Yeah. I'm not on the market.
Lillian Corning: I wasn't shopping.


--Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues

Carol Cutrere: [Xavier and Carol are driving at night in her sports car. She tells him to pull over at what appears to be the entrance to the local cemetery, "Wisteria Hills"] Pull over here.
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier: [Unaware of where they are] You live around here?
Carol Cutrere: [Slightly incredulous] Nobody lives around here! This is the local bone orchard!


--Joanne Woodward (as Carol Cutrere) in The Fugitive Kind

Carol Cutrere: Juking? Oh! Well, that's when you get in a car, which is preferably open in any kind of weather. And then you drink a little bit and you drive a little bit, and then you stop and you dance a little bit with a jukebox. And then you drink a little bit more and you drive a little bit more, you stop and you dance a little bit more to another juke box! And then you stop dancing and you just drink and you drive. And then, you stop driving.


--Joanne Woodward (as Carol Cutrere) in The Fugitive Kind

Clara: Barn burner!


--Joanne Woodward (as Clara Varner) in The Long, Hot Summer

Clara: I've spent my whole life around men who push and shove and shout and think they can make anything happen just by being aggressive. And I'm not anxious to have another one around the place.


--Joanne Woodward (as Clara Varner) in The Long, Hot Summer

Clara: Well don't throw in the towel yet, Agnes, dear. Those tranquilizers may see us through yet.


--Joanne Woodward (as Clara Varner) in The Long, Hot Summer

Clara: You are barking up the wrong girl, Mr. Quick.


--Joanne Woodward (as Clara Varner) in The Long, Hot Summer

Eve Black: [laughs] CHICKEN!


--Joanne Woodward (as Eve White / Eve Black / Jane) in The Three Faces of Eve

Lila Green: I don't need you, Ricky, because someone has just shown me that he cares enough about me to make me care about myself. I've got me and me can take me wherever me wants to go!


--Joanne Woodward (as ) in The Stripper