Melanie Griffith movie quotes

“- Linda Voss: What do you want from me?
- Ed Leland: I want you to stop feeling sorry for yourself.
- Linda Voss: No, you want me to stop feeling, like you... You did love me, didn't you? I couldn't have been wrong.
- Ed Leland: You weren't.
- Linda Voss: Well then how do you stop, or want to?”
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss
Michael Douglas - Ed Leland

“There are no small parts; there are only small actors.”
Melanie Griffith

“I can't have sex with you! My body belongs to my husband and there is no way that I could betray him in that way. But what I do from the neck up is a different story.”
Melanie Griffith - Nicole Oliver

“I am not steak. You can't just order me.”

Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“- Honey: Look at this dump of a town. Get me the fuck back to LA, God, if one more asshole mentions a crab cake to me I'm going to puke.
- Libby: Well, did you try the steamed crabs, they're red and really... tasty.
- Honey: No, I did not! I'm not interested in any kind of meal that you have to beat with a fucking mallet wearing some stupid kind...” (continue)(continue reading)
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Ricki Lake - Libby

“Family is just a dirty word for censorship.”
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock

“- Honey: Libby, do you think that Pat Nixon got fucked in this hotel room?
- Libby: What?
- Honey: It is called the Presidential Suite, isn't it?
- Libby: Yes, but...
- Honey: I bet she did. Call the manager and ask him.
- Libby: I can't ask that! Pat Nixon was a stroke victim!
- Honey: I believe it is your job to ask, is it not? Now call...” (continue)(continue reading)
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Ricki Lake - Libby

“What's a war for, if not to hold on to what we love?”
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“- Honey: I promise I won't tell anyone about your little movie!
- Cecil: Little?
- Honey: I didn't mean, you know, little. I meant, you know, low-budget... ly cult.”
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“- Cecil: They talk out loud in the theatre once the feature has begun.
- Honey: Oh, that really is unforgivable, Fidget.
- Fidget: Okay, okay! My parents are the enemies of film!”

Stephen Dorff - Cecil
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Eric Barry - Fidget

“- Honey Whitlock: Rodney, why do you have to hurt me? Gay men are supposed to be gentle!
- Rodney: That's just it, Honey, I'm not gay. I'm straight and I fucking hate it! Petey loves me and I can't love him back. I tried. I kiss him, and all I feel is whiskers. I can't take that certain thickness in his pants. I'm ashamed of my heterosexuality!”
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Jack Noseworthy - Rodney

“- Frank: My friends and I want to see a naked lady.
- V: How much of a naked lady?
- Frank: As much as a hundred dollars will buy.”
Michael Patrick Carter - Frank
Melanie Griffith - V

“- Mick Dugan: Tess, will you marry me?
- Tess McGill: Maybe.
- Mick Dugan: Ya call that an answer?
- Tess McGill: You want another answer, ask another girl.”
Alec Baldwin - Mick Dugan
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“To my father I spoke German. But he warned me to keep this language a secret, because outside of our neighborhood in Queens New York, if people heard me speak German they would either think that I was a Nazi sympathizer, or they would know I was a Jew.”
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“- Willard Young: I'm always afraid of things. I don't know why, but I am. And I just thought if I did something that really scared me, maybe I wouldn't be afraid anymore.
- Lily Reed: Did it work?
- Willard Young: Yeah... it did.”
Elijah Wood - Willard Young
Melanie Griffith - Lily Reed

“He said no when he should've said yes. Mama, I killed him, cut his head off.”
Melanie Griffith - Lucille

“- V: Nobody's treated me the way you do before.
- Tom: How do I treat you?
- V: Like a person.
- Tom: How does everybody else treat you?
- V: Like a hooker.
- Tom: Why do they treat you like that?
- V: Because I am hooker!”
Melanie Griffith - V
Ed Harris - Tom

You know what your problem is, Harry? You're not just rude, you're... "flagrant" about it!

Melanie Griffith - Billie Dawn

“You're not hairy enough to be dangerous.”

Melanie Griffith - V

“This is all so civilized, Edward. That's what you like, isn't it? Civilized people, polite ladies with pedigrees who look good at the opera, and never make you laugh too hard, and never make you feel too much. I've had a lot of time to think about this and don't tell me it's the war, when I've been waiting for six months to hear whether you're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“- V: How should we do this? On the bed, or standing?
- Brad: I'll stand.
- V: I meant me.”
Melanie Griffith - V
Adam LaVorgna - Brad

“- Drake Goodman: You have to remember this is an investment, Patty. You can't afford to do everything at once.
- Patty Palmer: It's not just an investment - it's our home.”
Matthew Modine - Drake Goodman
Melanie Griffith - Patty Palmer

“I wish I had spurs.”
Melanie Griffith - Patty Palmer

“- Willard Young: I think she's fat.
- Lily Reed: No, she's not fat, she's voluptuous.
- Willard Young: What does that mean?
- Lily Reed: That means that she's fat in all the right places.”

Elijah Wood - Willard Young
Melanie Griffith - Lily Reed

“- Tess McGill: How did you get the scar?
- Jack Trainer: Some guy pulled a knife in Detroit.
- Tess McGill: Really?
- Jack Trainer: No. No. I was nineteen and I thought it'd be cool to have a pierced ear. My girlfriend stuck the needle through and I heard this pop and fainted and hit my chin on the toilet.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Harrison Ford - Jack Trainer