Mommie Dearest
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[edit] Joan Crawford portrayed by Faye Dunaway
- I fought worse monsters than you for years in Hollywood
- No wire hangers! What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you no wire hangers, ever?! I work and I slave until I'm half dead, and all I hear people say is she's getting old. And what do I get? A daughter who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her as she cares about me! What's wire hangers doing in this closet?!
- Note: the bolded line is ranked #72 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- You're nothing but a rotten, crooked lawyer...supplying the grease to make this shitty movie business work.
- Tina, bring me the axe!
- When you polish the floor you have to move the tree.
- I'm not mad at you, Helga, I'm mad at the dirt!
- Scrub. Scrub, Christina. It's not. This floor is not clean! Look at it! This floor is not clean! None of it... this floor is not clean. Nothing is clean. This whole place is a mess!
- Clean up this mess!
- Tear down that BITCH of a bearing wall and put a window where it ought to be!
- Figure it out.
- Don't fuck with me, fellas! This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
- I should have known you'd know where to find the boys and the booze!
- Who wants to go swimming?
- Ah... you lost again!
- Ah, but nobody ever said that life was fair, Tina. I'm bigger and I'm faster. I will always beat you.
- Don't you ever use that tone of voice again with me, Missy!...Who do you think you're talking to?!...I'll tell you what yo're going to do: You are going to march yourself upstairs to your room, and will stay there, until I tell you to come out!
- I don't ask much from you, girl...Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to?! Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?
- Let's go!
- When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it.
- You love it dont you!? You love to make me hit you!!!
- Barbara, please! Please Barbara! If you need anything ask Carol Anne...This is wonderful, THIS IS WONDERFUL! You deliberately embarassed me in front of a reporter! A REPORTER!
- I can handle the socks.
- It all comes out in the wash.
- Bend the law.
- My regards to your school and its impeccable reputation.
- Don't you dare judge me.
- I should have the word "property of MGM" tattooed on my backside.
- I am not acting.
- Is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel.
- You don't know what hard feelings are, when I come out in public against your product and see how much you sell?
- The press I delievered to Pepsi was my power, I can use it anyway I want. Its a sword, cuts both ways.
- Mayer should know the price I pay!
- Christina! Christopher! Damnit!
- BECAUSE YOU DID GET EXPELLED!
- Unsuitable?
- What you're doing is denying one of your kids and wonderful and priviledge life. How sad that is.
- You think your life is a mystery, you reek of it!
- Don't shut that door, because if you do, you're never going to get back in, no matter what you say no matter what you do.
- You Love to make me hit you!
- What are you doing playing, going through my things? Making fun of me.
[edit] Christina Crawford portrayed by Diana Scarwid / Mara Hoble
- Adopted children are luckiest because they were chosen.
- I wanna know... why did you adopt me?!
- Because I am not one of your fans!
- Maybe just a little true.
- Does she? Does she...?
- Jesus Christ!
- No, go back. Strap yourself in. She'll kill me if she finds out.
- But that's not fair, you're bigger than I am! It's not fair to win twice...
- Then I'm not gonna play with you anymore...EVER!
- Yes, Mommie Dearest. Uncle Ted.
- I fix all of my uncles' drinks this way.
- My character is only 28 years old.
- Why did you tell her I got expelled?
- Understand? that's the first word I heard from any of you. There'll be time to understand when I'm old, if I ever am old.
- I had my vitamins, PILLS!
