Home for the Holidays (1995)

Holly Hunter: Claudia Larson

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• Claudia : Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That's what the day's supposed to be all about, right? Torture.

• Claudia : You don't know the first thing about me.

  Joanne : Likewise, I'm sure. If I just met you on the street... if you gave me your phone number... I'd throw it away.

  Claudia : Well, we don't have to like each other, Jo. We're family.

• Claudia : Didn't you have a girlfriend, or...

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, she went and married my best buddy Ray.

• Claudia : When you go home, do you look around and wonder, "Who are these people, where did I even come from?" I mean, you look at them all, sitting there, you know... they look familiar, but who the hell are they?

• Tommy : She flashed me Claud, she flashed me.

  Claudia : Welcome home!

• Claudia : Joanne, huh? What a dick.

  Tommy : I'm impervious. It's in one ear, out the other. Life goes on.

• Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : I'm just lettin' the guys have the day off, you know, so they can visit their families, since I'm all alone this year.

  Tommy : [to Leo]  This is the saddest sack in the universe.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, I don't have anybody anymore, my brother and sister got canned and they left town, and then my parents went and died on me.

  Claudia : I'm so sorry. I had no idea.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Yeah, well, you know - it was a car wreck, last summer, drunk driver, cut right across the, uh what was it, you know... meridian, pow-pow! Head on.

• Claudia : You know, maybe next year will be better for you.

  Russell 'Sad Sack' Terziak : Hey, yeah - or worse.