Jennifer Jason Leigh quotes
- From the movie: In The Cut
“I wanna get married once. Just for my mom.”
- From the movie: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
“- Stacy Hamilton: When a guy has an orgasm, how much comes out?
- Linda Barrett: A quart or so.” - From the movie: Skipped Parts
“- Sam Callahan: Now that Maurey and I have done it, will she like me?
- Lydia Callahan: Maurey will always have a warm spot in her heart whenever she thinks about you.
- Sam Callahan: But she says we're just friends.
- Lydia Callahan: Well, you're lucky. That way you can have the fun of love without the heartbreak.
- Sam Callahan: But what if I...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Bastard Out of Carolina
“I don't care what they say. I won't have anybody call you trash.”
- From the movie: Bastard Out of Carolina
“- Anney Boatwright: Glen's not like that.
- Granny: You don't know what that boy is like.
- Anney Boatwright: I know he loves me.
- Granny: Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.” - From the movie: Bastard Out of Carolina
- From the movie: The Anniversary Party
- Sally Therrian: We're fine! We're great! We're having a baby and we're moving to London!
- Sophia Gold: Well you weren't fine when you went all Sylvia Plath on me last summer in Connecticut!
- Sally Therrian: Not nice! Not kind!
- Sophia Gold: Ha! Not half so "not kind" as your husband was in his depiction of you in his novel! - From the movie: The Anniversary Party
“- Sophia Gold: Sally! His image of you is a possessive, fragile neurotic!
- Sally Therrian: But I am a possessive, fragile neurotic!
- Sophia Gold: No you are not! You are Sally Nash! You are Sally Nash, and you're my best friend for twenty years. And you're not going to move to London to have the offspring of some sexually ambivalent man-child,...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: EXistenZ
“- Ted Pikul: It's none of your business who sent us! We're here and that is all that matters... God, what happened? I didn't mean to say that.
- Allegra Geller: It's your character who said it. It's kind of a schizophrenic feeling, isn't it? You'll get used to it. There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Skipped Parts
“- Lydia Callahan: The timed mastery of a horse is nothing more than competitive sex, proof that man can subjugate anythin' wild and beautiful once he gets it between his legs.
- Delores: What gets me is they want a belt buckle for lastin' eight seconds.” - From the movie: Short Cuts
“Don't you want me to lick your balls for you?”
- From the movie: Bastard Out of Carolina
“- Glen Waddell: The things I do ain't good enough for you. I put my hand in a honey jar, comes out piss! Nothing I do is right!
- Anney Boatwright: Glen, everybody has troubles now and then, honey. Just give it time, sweetie. Things are gonna work out.” - From the movie: EXistenZ
“- Allegra Geller: When he comes over, do it. Don't hesitate.
- Ted Pikul: Everything in the game is so realistic, I don't think I really could.
- Allegra Geller: You won't be able to stop yourself. You might as well enjoy it.” - From the movie: Miami Blues
“I had to give him the benefit of the doubt. He always ate everything I ever gave him and he never hit me.”
- From the movie: EXistenZ
- From the movie: Single White Female
“- Hedra Carlson: Okay. Come on. The police will be here soon.
- Allison Jones: But... But you shouldn't run. It'll only make it worse. I know you weren't yourself when you did this, Hedy.
- Hedra Carlson: I know. I was you. Who is this Hedy, anyway? No one's seen her. She's not on the lease. There's not even a fingerprint of hers here. I've been...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Hudsucker Proxy
“Finally there would be a thingamajig that would bring everyone together, even if it kept them apart spatially.”
- From the movie: The Hudsucker Proxy
“I used to think you were a swell guy. Well, to be honest, I thought you were an imbecile. But then I figured out you were a swell guy... A little slow, maybe, but a swell guy. Well, maybe you're not so slow, But you're not so swell either. And it looks like you're an imbecile after all!”
- From the movie: Miami Blues
- Susie Waggoner: ...And you save your money... and buy a nice little house, with a white picket fence, and live happily ever after.
- Frederick J. Frenger Jr.: Tell you what. Let's go straight to the "happily ever after" part, ok? - From the movie: EXistenZ
“- Allegra Geller: The whole pod just disappeared into your back.
- Ted Pikul: It disappeared into my back? It's in my spine? It's working its way around my spinal cord?
- Allegra Geller: Don't panic, it's just a game.” - From the movie: Single White Female
"I don't want to try to be loved anymore. I don't want to be scared anymore. Or to kill anymore. I don't want to kill anymore. I... don't want to be alone anymore. I don't want to be anything anymore. I don't need a reason to kill myself. I need a reason not to. There isn't one". You don't want to say anything special to anyone? Okay, "Allison... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: In The Cut
- From the movie: The Anniversary Party
“- Sophia Gold: Oh my God! America just told me that the neighbors are coming!
- Sally Therrian: And here they are!
- Sophia Gold: Oh! And she was just saying how happy you were to finally have them over! Because the two of you are so... introspective and shy. Should have done it ages ago, basically.” - From the movie: EXistenZ
“- Ted Pikul: I want to put the game on pause. The game can be paused, can't it? I mean, all games can be paused, right?
- Allegra Geller: Why? What's wrong? Aren't you dying to see what's so special about the special?” - From the movie: The Hitcher
“- Trooper Hancock: You just threw your life down the toilet, girl.
- Nash: When the truth comes down, I'll be just fine.”
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