Evan Rachel Wood movie quotes

“Parents have this advantage over us. We want to believe in them. And when we don't believe in them, we still just want to be with them.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Miranda

“- Randa: Why is that woman - why is she doing those things with another woman? Why must they show this?
- Kimberly Joyce: Because men like to watch it.
- Randa: But it is a sin!
- Kimberly Joyce: Randa! Randa, you're gonna find out that a lot of things men like are a sin.”

Adi Schnall - Randa
Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“- Kimberly Joyce: How does an Arab get his wife pregnant?
- Randa: I do not know.
- Kimberly Joyce: She gets naked and lies down on the bed, he jerks off on the wall, and they let the flies do the rest.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce
Adi Schnall - Randa

“Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer

“Symbiotic, that's what our relationship is going to be like, Randa. Just like we learned in biology, the whale and the little fish that sticks on it. See, if you hang with me you'll get a lot of attention from boys that you otherwise wouldn't. And meanwhile when I'm standing next to your I'll look more attractive by comparison, isn't that great?”

Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“- Tracy Freeland: Mom, I have to go to the bathroom now!
- Melanie Freeland: Can't you hold it a minute?
- Tracy Freeland: That's how you get a bladder infection, you child abuser.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Tracy Freeland
Holly Hunter - Melanie Freeland

“- Miranda: You don't take anything seriously do you? You think the world is just here for your amusement!
- Charlie: But look at the world...
- Miranda: I do. But unlike you I have to live in it!”
Evan Rachel Wood - Miranda
Michael Douglas - Charlie

“My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“My sister Gwen should have been a nurse, she's always making some guy feel better!”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“- Harriet: I don't need a mother.
- Gwen: Sure you do.
- Harriet: My mother is in a box covered with dirt.
- Gwen: No, I'm your mother... I had you when I was fifteen. I was letting Mom be your mother.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz
Mary Stuart Masterson - Gwen Frankovitz

“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.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer

“- Ricky: You live here, at a hotel?
- Harriet: My mom got it as a divorce present.”
Kevin Bacon - Ricky Schroth
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“- Harriet: Ricky is my best friend.
- Gwen: He can't be Harriet. He's a man, he's a grown-up, he's a... retarded. If you hang around him long enough you'll start talking like him or walking like him or maybe even acting like him.
- Harriet: Well, at least it would be better than talking and walking and acting like you.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz
Mary Stuart Masterson - Gwen Frankovitz

“I always wish for the same two things, which are really only one thing. I want something magical to happen to me. And I wanted my mother to get well.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“Sometimes I thought my mother was smart and really beautiful. Other times I worried a nest of spiders was living in her hair and they were eating through her skull and chewing on her brain.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz

“- Harriet: Mom, is there a planet where everyone's dumber than us?
- Mrs. Frankovitz: Sure, that's the one all of Gwen's boyfriends are from.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz
Cathy Moriarty - Mrs. Frankovitz

“I'm worried about Antonia. Did you know that she put on her mouse ears and drives around town, all liquored up, naked?”
Evan Rachel Wood - Kylie

“I always figured I'd leave my mother. But she left me first.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Harriet Frankovitz