How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Driving Miss Daisy.
Quote #10
DAISY: Is Boolie paying you still?
HOKE: Every week.
DAISY: How much?
HOKE: Now that's between him and me.
DAISY: Highway robbery…
HOKE: It sure is. It sure is.
DAISY: How are you?
HOKE: I'm doing the best I can.
DAISY: Me, too.
HOKE: Well, that's about all there is to it then.
This has got to be one of the sweetest, most tear-jerking scenes onscreen. Hoke visits Daisy in the retirement home, and they go through their old "highway robbery" routine and commiserate about getting old and getting by. Daisy fumbles with her fork trying to eat her pie, and Hoke helps to feed her. Roger Ebert called this "a luminous final scene in which we are invited to regard one of the most privileged mysteries of life, the moment when two people allow each other to see inside" (source). It sure looks like old friends.