Hope Landin: Ma Hooper

Quotes 

• [Brass discusses his problems with the circus' fortune teller] 

  Ma Hooper : You're worried - what is it?

  Brass McGannon : Oh, a little bit of everything, Ma - Tina, money, Alonzo. You know, Sam will can Alonzo if he gets looped again.

  Ma Hooper : Where'd he get that bottle?

  Brass McGannon : I thought you knew everything?

• Brass McGannon : I don't know why I beat my brains out tryin' to push this turkey around the country. Every time I turn around it's nothing but grief.

  Ma Hooper : You're an advance man, sweetie - that's your job: grief. You're a combination press agent, wet nurse and troubleshooter. Like you say, you gotta be tough, you gotta be soft, you gotta be a diplomat.

• Ma Hooper : You were vacinated with sawdust, sweetie. You'll bake in the summer, freeze in the winter, take the long hops and the short dough and you like it, 'cause there ain't no antidote for sawdust in the blood.