Melanie Griffith movie quotes

“- Sully: Poor guy just had a bypass. Maybe he's trying to cram everything he can do into six months. When he realizes he's going to live until he's seventy, he'll slow down.
- Toby Roebuck: If I had my way, he wouldn't live to Thanksgiving.”

Paul Newman - Sully
Melanie Griffith - Toby Roebuck

“I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.”
Melanie Griffith

“- Charlie Driggs: If you don't turn around and take me back, you're gonna make me do something that I don't wanna do.
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I can hardly wait, Charlie.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“- Charlotte Haze: I asked you to make your bed. Didn't I?
- Lolita: No. You asked me if I'd made my bed.”
Melanie Griffith - Charlotte Haze
Dominique Swain - Lolita

“You know, Mick, just once I could go for like a sweater or some earrings... something that I could actually wear outside of this apartment?”

Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“- Frank: My mother died before I was born.
- V: I don't think that's possible.
- Frank: Okay she had me first and then she died right after.”
Michael Patrick Carter - Frank
Melanie Griffith - V

“- Marion Davies: Did you need any of them?
- William Randolph Hearst: I wanted them.
- Marion Davies: And there is the difference between want and need.
- William Randolph Hearst: Not to me.”
Melanie Griffith - Marion Davies
James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“- Jack Trainer: You're the first woman I've seen at one of these things that dresses like a woman, not like a woman thinks a man would dress if he was a woman.
- Tess McGill: Thank you I guess.”
Harrison Ford - Jack Trainer
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“- Ariel: I got a hot flash for you. Sex is nice.
- Emily Eden: Sex is nice... How would you know?”
Eric Thal - Ariel
Melanie Griffith - Emily Eden

“- Snowbell: I wish I were the one that was dead!
- Margalo: Really?
- Snowbell: No. But I'm feeling very unhappy!”
Nathan Lane - Snowbell
Melanie Griffith - Margalo

“- Lucille: Would you happen to know how your slingshot wound up in my car?
- Peejoe: I figured you could probably use some protection.”
Melanie Griffith - Lucille
Lucas Black - Peejoe

“With due respect, sir, inside every honest man, there's a thief trying to get out...”
Melanie Griffith - Emily Eden

“- Honey: Raven, you know, you're a really pretty girl. You could escape from all of this madness.
- Raven: Escape to what, Honey? I mean, my father is Zo-Zo, the three headed guard dog at the gate to hell.
- Honey: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.”
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Raven

“I'm flat broke, I'm crazy about a man that I will probably never see again.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

- Cherish: When I was ten years old, my entire family fucked me under the Christmas tree.
- Honey: I'm so sorry.
- Cherish: Yeah, I bet you are... "jingle balls, jingle balls" my stupid brother started singing. ...You think that's funny?
- Honey: No, I don't.

Alicia Witt - Cherish
Melanie Griffith - Honey Whitlock

“- Paul Verrall: Maybe we haven't gotten our time yet.
- Billie Dawn: No, we did. And you just dropped the ball.”
Don Johnson - Paul Verrall
Melanie Griffith - Billie Dawn

“- Charlie Driggs: What are you doing?
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I'm setting you free.
- Charlie Driggs: Maybe I don't want to be free.
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: Maybe you're not.”
Jeff Daniels - Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“- Tess McGill: I know what I'm doing.
- Cyn: Yeah, screwing up your life.
- Tess McGill: No, I'm trying to make it better! I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up, ok?”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Joan Cusack - Cyn

“Oh Christ, Sherman, we're in the middle of a godamn war zone and you're worried about doing the right thing?”
Melanie Griffith - Maria Ruskin

“- Margalo: Don't hurt him, Falcon!
- Falcon: I won't hurt him. The sidewalk will!”

Melanie Griffith - Margalo
James Woods - Falcon

- Billie Dawn: I've been thinking a lot lately about something my dad used to say: "Without knowledge, you're less than everybody". And I don't want to be less. I don't want to be better than anybody neither and I don't want to go above myself. I just want to not be less.
- Paul Verrall: I'm afraid it's too late for that... 'cause you're already... (continue)(continue reading)
Melanie Griffith - Billie Dawn
Don Johnson - Paul Verrall

“- Tess McGill: I have a head for business and a body for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?
- Jack Trainer: Uh, no. No.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill
Harrison Ford - Jack Trainer

“- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: I was just admiring your bike.
- Police officer: Oh, do you like motorcycles?
- Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel: No, I just like big things between my legs.”
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“I get involved with a married man who isn't even married!”
Melanie Griffith - Audrey Hankel

“- Ed Leland: Close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?
- Linda Voss: Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - Ed Leland
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss