“- Lloyd: In the ninth grade we said he could get a part time job. Are you ready for what he did? He started an escort service for the football team, and he gave out my mother's phone number!
- Caroline: And I still say getting laid by an 18-year-old linebacker is just what she needs!”

Kevin Spacey - Lloyd
Judy Davis - Caroline

“- Bellocq: Her father unknown, and her mother deserted the child.
- Violet: My mother's name was Hildegarde. Hildegarde Marr. M-A-R-R.
- Priest: And she was Caucasian, or other?
- Violet: She was a whore, Father.”
Keith Carradine - Bellocq
Brooke Shields - Violet

“- Kim Wheeler: I'm just taking an interest in your Iife, as your stepmom.
- Dorothy Wheeler: When you're oId enough to rent a car, we can discuss your roIe as my stepmother. In the meantime, don't taIk about my sex Iife.
- Kim Wheeler: You? Have a sex life?
- Dorothy Wheeler: I do. But I don't charge by the hour Iike you.”
Benita Ha - Kim Wheeler
Jessica Capshaw - Dorothy Wheeler

“My mother was a real whore and a junkie, and she traded me for $10 and a fix.”
Lynn Whitfield - Victoria

“Boys, I don't want to speak ill of your mother on Christmas, but she's nothing but a common streetwhore.”
Robert Duvall - Howard