Quotes
 Daisy Werthan: Hoke?
Hoke Colburn: Yes`m.
Daisy Werthan: You`re my best friend.
Hoke Colburn: No, go on Miss Daisy.
Daisy Werthan: No, really, you are...
[Takes Hoke`s hand]
Daisy Werthan: You are.
Hoke Colburn: Yes`m. [to Hoke on his first day of work]
Idella: I wouldn`t be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.
Daisy Werthan: Did you have the air-conditioning checked? I told you to have the air-conditioning checked.
Hoke Colburn: I had the air-conditioning checked. I don`t know what for. You never allow me to turn it on.
Daisy Werthan: Hush up!
Daisy Werthan: You should have let me keep my old LaSalle. It never would`ve behaved this way and you know it.
Boolie Werthan: Mama, cars don`t behave. They are behaved upon. Fact is, you demolished that Chrysler all by yourself.
Daisy Werthan: Say what you want, I know the truth.
Boolie Werthan: The truth is, you just cost the insurance company $2,700. You`re a terrible risk. Nobody`s gonna want to issue you a policy after this.
Daisy Werthan: You`re just saying that to be hateful!
Boolie Werthan: OK. I am. I`m makin` it all up. Look out there in the driveway! Every insurance company in America is out there, waving their fountain pen, trying to get you to sign up!
Boolie Werthan: You`re a doodle, Mama.
Boolie Werthan: How`re you, Idella?
Idella: Livin`.
Boolie Werthan: Where`s that vacuum cleaner I brought over here?
Idella: In the closet.
Boolie Werthan: [turning to Hoke] She won`t touch it.
Idella: I would if it didn`t give me a shock every time I come near it!
Boolie Werthan: It works for me!
Idella: Fine... you clean and I`ll go down and run your office!
Idella: I`m goin`, Miss Daisy.
Daisy Werthan: [from upstairs] Alright Idella, see you tomorrow.
Hoke Colburn: I`m goin` too, Miss Daisy.
Daisy Werthan: Good!
[Hoke is trailing Daisy in the car as she walks to the supermarket]
Daisy Werthan: What are you doing?
Hoke Colburn: I`m tryin` to drive you to the store!
Daisy Werthan: [on the phone, trying to get a ride to her hair appointment] Well, I need you now, I have to be at the beauty parlor in half an hour... no, I most certainly did NOT know you have to call a minimum of three hours ahead! I don`t know why you call yourselves a taxicab company if you can`t provide taxicabs!
Idella: [in the other room, polishing a table] Why don`t you call your son down at the mill? He`ll send somebody for you.
Daisy Werthan: That won`t be necessary... I`ll just cancel the appointment and fix my own hair!
Idella: Sometimes I think you ain`t got the sense God gave a lemon!
[Hoke and Miss Daisy are talking about how he can`t read]
Daisy Werthan: You know your letters don`t you?
Hoke Colburn: Oh yeah, yeah I know my ABC`s pretty good, just can`t read.
Daisy Werthan: Stop saying that you`re making me mad! If you know your letters you can read. You just don`t know you can read.
Hoke Colburn: Maam?
Daisy Werthan: I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.
[after Florene storms out when Katie Bell makes a mistake]
Boolie Werthan: Don`t worry Katie Bell, it`s not QUITE the end of the world.
Hoke Colburn: [on a pay phone calling Boolie after taking Daisy to the Piggly Wiggly] Hello, Mr. Werthan? Yeah, it`s me. Guess where I`m at? I jus` finished drivin` yo mama to da store.
[laughs]
Hoke Colburn: Oh, yeah, she flap around some, but she`s all right, she in da store. Oh, Lord, she jus` looked out da window an` seen me on da phone... prob`ly gonna throw a fit right there at da checkout!
[pause]
Hoke Colburn: You sho` right about that! Only took me six days. Same time it took the Lord to make the world! All right, `bye now!
Hoke Colburn: Hey, there, Oscar, Junior... how you boys doin` this morning?
Oscar: How the old lady treatin` you, Hoke?
Hoke Colburn: Lord, I tell you one thing... she sho` do know how to throw a fit!
[Hoke, Oscar, and Junior break out in laughter]
Daisy Werthan: What`s so funny?
Hoke Colburn: Nothin`, Miss Daisy. We jus` carryin` on.
Boolie Werthan: What I need is for somebody to drive my mother around
Hoke Colburn: Well, if you don` mind my askin`, sir, how come she`s not hirin` for herself?
Boolie Werthan: See, it`s kind of a delicate situation.
Hoke Colburn: Oh, yessir, yessir... done gone around the bend a little bit. Well, now, that`ll happen as they get old...
Boolie Werthan: Oh, no, she`s all there. Too-much-there is the problem!
[Hoke laughs]
Alabama trooper #1: [watching Daisy and Hoke leave after checking them out] An old nigger and an old Jew woman takin` off down the road together... that is one sorry sight!
[Hoke and Boolie are walking thru Daisy`s vacated home discussing how Hoke and Daisy have been since Daisy had to be put in the nursing home]
Boolie Werthan: I suppose you don`t get out to see her very much.
Hoke Colburn: No, sir... it`s hard not drivin`. Every now and then I takes a taxi cab, but don`t too many taxis go out yonder.
Boolie Werthan: I`m sure she appreciates it.
Hoke Colburn: Yes, sir.
[pauses]
Hoke Colburn: Some days, she better than others... but then, who ain`t?
[Hoke and Boolie both laugh]
[Hoke and Boolie are at the nursing home visiting Daisy. Daisy appears unwilling to speak much]
Boolie Werthan: Hoke, I thought about you the other day on the road. I saw an Avondale Milk truck. Monster of a thing, looked to have about eighteen wheels.
Hoke Colburn: You don`t say!
Boolie Werthan: I was wondering how you`d like drivin` that thing around!
Daisy Werthan: [to Boolie] Hoke came to see me, not you!
Hoke Colburn: Look like one o` her good days!
Daisy Werthan: Boolie, go charm the nurses!
Boolie Werthan: [smiling] She wants you all to herself.
Daisy Werthan: [Hoke and Daisy are driving to Boolie and Florene`s for a Christmas party. Daisy, a Jew, is annoyed at the extraneous Christmas light displays] Everybody`s wishing the Georgia Power Company a Merry Christmas.
Hoke Colburn: I bet Miss Florene got `em all beat with the new house.
Daisy Werthan: If I had a nose like Florene`s, I wouldn`t go around wishing anybody a Merry Christmas!
Hoke Colburn: [laughs] Yes`m... but, I tell ya, I do enjoy a Christmas at their house.
Daisy Werthan: Of course, you`re the only Christian in the place!
Hoke Colburn: Well, they got that new cook.
Daisy Werthan: [sighs] Florene never could keep help. Of course, it`s none of my affair. Too much running around, if you ask me.
[Hoke agrees]
Daisy Werthan: The Garden Club this, the Junior League that... as if any of them would give her the time of day! But, she`d die before she`d fix a glass of iced tea for the Temple Sisterhood!
Hoke Colburn: [coming up on Boolie`s house, looking at the gaudy light display] Oh, Lord, look what Miss Florene done done!
Daisy Werthan: If her grandfather, Old Man Friartack, could see this... what is it you always say?... he`d jump up out of his grave and snatch her bald-headed!
Hoke Colburn: [bursts out laughing as he lets Daisy out] HA! Jump up outta his grave and snatch her bald-headed! Miss Daisy, you oughta go on away from here!
Hoke Colburn: [Hoke and Idella are walking to Daisy`s house and notice Boolie`s car in the driveway] Now what do you suppose he`s doin` here this early in the mornin`?
Idella: Dunno... can`t be good, I promise you that!
Hoke Colburn: [Hoke walks in, Boolie and Daisy are there to confront him about a missing can of salmon] Mornin`, Miss Daisy. I think it`s gettin` ready to clear up out there! Oh, `scuse me, Mr. Werthan!
Boolie Werthan: Hoke, I think we`re gonna have to have a little talk.
Hoke Colburn: All right, sir. Just let me get outta my coat.
[pauses, then turns to Daisy]
Hoke Colburn: Oh, Miss Daisy, yesterday, while you was out visitin`, I went and ate a can of your salmon. Now, I know you said eat the left-over pork chops, but they was kinda stiff. So, I stopped at the Piggly Wiggly and got you another can. You want me just to go on and put it in the cupboard?
Daisy Werthan: [embarrassed] Yes, that`ll be fine... thank you, Hoke. Well, I guess I`d better get dressed now!
Trivia
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The role of Florine, played by Patti LuPone, is not in the original play "Driving Miss Daisy". It was written in by playwright and screenwriter Alfred Uhry specifically for LuPone, who, Uhry felt, looked good in a costume.
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# Towards the end of the movie, viewers see that Boolie Werthan has put his mother`s house for sale. The house is listed by Harry Norman Realtors, which is an actual real estate company in Atlanta, Georgia. It was started in the 1930s and is still in business today (1999) and operated by a descendant of Mrs. Harry Norman, the woman who founded the company.
Author Alfred Uhry based the story of Daisy and Hoke on his own grandmother Lena Fox and her chauffeur Will Coleman.
Jessica Tandy won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Daisy Werthan. At age 81, she is the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar.
The Hans Zimmer score was done completely with synthesizers, all of which he played. No orchestras were used.
In the scene where Miss Daisy gives Hoke a writing book as a gift she mentions to Hoke that she taught Mayor Hartsfield out of the same book. This is a reference to William B. Hartsfield (1890-1971) who was a six term mayor of Altanta from 1937-1961.
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# So convinced was she that she would lose out, Jessica Tandy had a $100 bet with her agent that she wouldn`t win the Oscar for Best Actress. When she paid up on Oscar night, she told him that it was the best bet she had ever lost.
The aria heard in the azalea blossoms/time passes scene when Daisy is listening to the radio is "Song To The Moon" from Antonín Dvorák`s "Rusalka".
As of 2005, this is the last film with an MPAA PG-rating to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Three black men are seen crossing railroad tracks in Atlanta. All three of these men are descendants of the real Hoke.
One of only three films to win the Oscar for best picture without also being nominated for best director. The other two are Wings (1927) and Grand Hotel (1932).
Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, and Angela Lansbury all were interested in playing Miss Daisy. Studio executives also considered a Bette Midler/Eddie Murphy pairing.
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# In the scenes involving the black 4 door Cadillac sedan, the director uses both a 1955 and a 1956 Cadillac. The cars` exteriors are identical except for the rear exhaust fender flare on the `56. The rear fender on the `55 is flat.
While being interviewed in the 2008 PBS Mini-Series "The Jewish Americans" (2008), Alfred Uhry, who wrote the film`s screen play and grew up as a Jewish child in Atlanta during the 40`s and 50`s, admitted that many Jews in Atlanta celebrated Christmas like Boolie and his wife in attempt to be a part of a where city where Jews where a minority.
Alfred Uhry`s 1987 play "Driving Miss Daisy," on which this movie is based, is the first of his "Atlanta Trilogy" of plays about Jews in Atlanta, Georgia. The other two plays are "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (1996), a play about a family preparing for the Atlanta Jewish society cotillion, and "Parade" (1998), a musical about the false conviction and 1915 lynching of Atlanta factory manager Leo Frank.
The play "Driving Miss Daisy" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1988.
# SPOILER: Before Idella dies, she and Hoke are watching "The Edge of Night" (1956). During the period in which the movie is set, CBS aired "Edge" live at 4pm every day.
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