The Upside of Anger Quotes

The Upside of Anger is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Upside of Anger completed its run in 1970.

It features Jack Binder as producer, Alexandre Desplat in charge of musical score, and Richard Greatrex as head of cinematography.

The Upside of Anger is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Upside of Anger is 117 minutes long. The Upside of Anger is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Evan Rachel Wood as Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer, Alicia Witt as Hadley Wolfmeyer, Joan Allen as Terry Wolfmeyer, Kevin Costner as Denny Davies, Erika Christensen as Andy Wolfmeyer, Mike Binder as Adam "Shep" Goodman, Dane Christensen as Gorden Reiner, and Keri Russell as Emily Wolfmeyer.

The Upside of Anger Quotes

Mike Binder as Adam "Shep" Goodman

• (Mike Binder) "Who should I sleep with, Terry? Women like you? Your age? My age? I don't. You know why? 'Cause younger women are nice. You take them out, and they're actually grateful. "Oh look, a steak. Yummy." You go for a walk after dinner, the air smells nice, they say, "Thank you. This was nice. This was fun. You're funny. Tee-hee-hee." What should I do, Terry? Settle down and marry some pissed-off thing like you? I'd rather have someone come over and do dental work, every day, from my backside, up -- through my ass."

Evan Rachel Wood as Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer

• (Evan Rachel Wood) "Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That's what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It's real, though; the fury, even when it isn't. It can change you -- turn you -- mold you and shape you into something you're not. The only upside to anger, then -- is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they're not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm. Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child."

• (Evan Rachel Wood) "People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible -- unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes -- they just don't have all the facts."

• (Evan Rachel Wood) "I'm from a broken home."

Keri Russell as Emily Wolfmeyer

• (Keri Russell) "Do you have any idea what a f***ing idiot you sound like sometimes?"
• (Joan Allen) "I love how you worry about how the letter you wrote to the parent that deserted you is to mean, but to the one who's still here in the fight, you have no trouble saying the most vile things. Isn't that a tad odd? Please finish setting the table."

Joan Allen as Terry Wolfmeyer

• (Joan Allen) "Your father is a small man. A very small man."
• (Alicia Witt) "I hope you're not referring to his genitals because that would just be gross."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "Aww, dude, I was about to eat a string bean."

• (Joan Allen) "This was like Halley's Comet; it's not coming around again in 57 years."

• (Joan Allen) "Hello?"
• (Kevin Costner) "What, what are you doing?"
• (Joan Allen) "Oh, making the girls' lunches."
• (Kevin Costner) "Good for you."
• (Joan Allen) "Yeah, what the hell. I'm going after the Mother-of-the-year award."

• (Joan Allen) "The whole thing just infuriates me."
• (David Junior) "That's probably half the attraction."
• (David Junior) "What?"
• (Alicia Witt) "You know what. Not another word."

• (Joan Allen) "It's not the kind of thing that ever heals."
• (Kevin Costner) "Yeah, it does. It heals. It just heals funny. You know, you more or less walk -- with a limp."

Alicia Witt as Hadley Wolfmeyer

• (Alicia Witt) "Buddy, god**** You. Out."
• (Keri Russell) "What's the big deal? He wasn't licking it more than three seconds."
• (Alicia Witt) "The three second thing is for floors, not dog's mouths. He spends all day licking other dogs' asses. Uhn. Let's just call for takeout."
• (Keri Russell) "It's fine. You guys, it's good chicken. It's fine."
• (Erika Christensen) "Like you'd eat it."
• (Keri Russell) "It's fine."
• (Alicia Witt) "You know the Zilwaukees' Great Dane, "Mo'fo?" You're licking his asshole right now."

• (Alicia Witt) "What kind of a dickhead runs away with his secretary? That is lame, take a right, make a left at pathetic."

• (Alicia Witt) "There's something you all should know."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "You're pregnant and you're getting married."
• (Alicia Witt) "How did you know that? Who told you that?"
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "I guessed? Really? I guessed that? I was right?"
• (Joan Allen) "No, you've got to be kidding me."
• (Alicia Witt) "No, I'm -- I'm not. I'm getting married."
• (Joan Allen) "This is how I find out? Through Popeye? A 15-year-old?"
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "Don't be condescending --"
• (Joan Allen) "Close it. You are a child. What do you know?"
• (Erika Christensen) "Oh, that old chestnut."
• (Joan Allen) "You close it as well, please. Do his parents know?"
• (Alicia Witt) "Yes, they're ecstatic."
• (Joan Allen) "Oh, how long have they been ecstatic?"
• (Alicia Witt) "You know what? Can we just go to the lunch, please?"
• (Joan Allen) "How long have they been ecstatic, damn you, Hadley?"

Erika Christensen as Andy Wolfmeyer

• (Erika Christensen) "Be nice."
• (Joan Allen) "That's not in my nature."

Kevin Costner as Denny Davies

• (Kevin Costner) "I am so sick of being your bitch. I put up with your s*** because I know how much pain you're in. But it's ENOUGH. It's a tall order for a patient motherf***er, and I am the furthest thing from that that you're ever going to lay eyes on."

• (Kevin Costner) "What the f*** is Halleys Comet?"

• (Kevin Costner) "I dial your number ten times a day and hang up."

Dane Christensen as Gorden Reiner

• (Dane Christensen) "I'm gay."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "What?"
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "No you're not."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "Are you just saying that cause you don't wanna kiss me?"
• (Dane Christensen) "I like men."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "I don't believe you. I think you're lying."
• (Evan Rachel Wood) "Have you ever had gay sex? What about sex with a woman? Just have sex with me and if you don't like it, then you can be gay."
• (Dane Christensen) "That's really nice of you."

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