Stockard Channing movie quotes

“The greater the pain the harder the recovery.”

Stockard Channing - Dr. Beth Noonan

Would we visit you and sit in your gorgeous house, planning visits to the townships, demanding to see the poorest of the poor? "Oh, are you sure they're the worst off? I mean, we've come all this way. I mean, we don't want to see people just mildly victimized by apartheid. We demand shock". You know it doesn't seem right, sitting on the East... (continue)(continue reading)

Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“It's fascinating to realize how fragile we human beings really are. When you think you're about to die an interesting thing happens. You slowly scan how you have lived or not lived your life. Something we should all do without having a gun pointed to our heads. To live as if we were about to die. To die as we would want to live.”
Stockard Channing - Dr. Beth Noonan

“She came here as angry as anyone I've ever seen. Turns out what she needed was what everybody needs. To feel she belongs somewhere in the world.”

Stockard Channing - Dr. Beth Noonan

“When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.”
Stockard Channing

“I lead a very boring, normal life.”
Stockard Channing

“I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!”
Stockard Channing

“She experienced something joyous but then had it turned into something dirty with the judgement of the outside world and by her own judgement of herself. She stopped the experience out of fear and insecurity, an insecurity she felt her whole life just like the rest of us. But for one brief moment she lived and hopefully there's no going back now.”

Stockard Channing - Dr. Beth Noonan

“I love this internet. It's part fantasy, part community, and you get to pay your bills naked.”
Stockard Channing - Dolly

“We're alcoholics, we're generally satisfied to hurt ourselves.”
Stockard Channing - Sister Husband

“If a man ever bought that for me, not only would I have sex with him, but I would enjoy it!”

Stockard Channing - Florence Maybelle

“- Bess: You have a visitor in there, a Miss Sophie De Vega.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Pretty?
- Bess: Prettier than me, but I'm easier.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: I'm saving you for the rainy season.”
Stockard Channing - Bess
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh

“Dear Lord, we ask that you bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies. And we ask forgiveness, Lord, for the fornication that Mr. Sprock and me committed this morning on this very table.”
Stockard Channing - Sister Husband

“- Marty: Do you think these glasses make me look smarter?
- Rizzo: No, you can still see your face.”
Dinah Manoff - Marty
Stockard Channing - Rizzo

“- Jane Applegate: If you don't eat your dinner, you can't have dessert.
- Richard P. Applegate: Did someone say dessert?
- Jane Applegate: I happened to find a pile of rancid trash in the dumpster behind the 7-11.”

Stockard Channing - Jane Applegate
Ed Begley Jr. - Richard P. Applegate

“I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Rizzo: I've got so many hickeys people will think I'm a leper.
- Kenickie: Relax. A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card, when you only care enough to send the very best!
- Rizzo: You pig!
- Kenickie: Oh, I love it when you talk dirty!”
Stockard Channing - Rizzo
Jeff Conaway - Kenickie

“- Carol Ann: Women don't have Adam's Apples, only men have Adam's Apples. The first night that you came to town I noticed that you had yourself an Adam's Apple.
- Vida: Then, then you know?
- Carol Ann: I know, that I am very fortunate to have a lady friend who just happens to have an Adam's Apple.”
Stockard Channing - Carol Ann
Patrick Swayze - Vida

“Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee. Lousy with virginity. Won't go to bed 'til I'm legally wed. I can't, I'm Sandra Dee.”

Stockard Channing - Rizzo

“I guess there are such things as happy endings. If you just stand still long enough to let them happen.”
Stockard Channing - Dr. Beth Noonan

“- Ouisa Kittredge: Everything is somebody else's.
- Paul: Not your children. Not your life.
- Ouisa Kittredge: No, you got me there. That is mine. That is nobody else's.”
Stockard Channing - Ouisa
Will Smith - Paul

“- Paul: I'll be treated with care if you take me to the police. If they don't know you're special, they kill you.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, I don't think they kill you.
- Paul: Mrs. Louisa Kittredge, I am black.
- Ouisa Kittredge: I will deliver you to them with kindness and affection.”
Will Smith - Paul
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Rizzo: Where are you goin'? To flog your log?
- Danny: Much better than hanging around here with you dorks.”
Stockard Channing - Rizzo
John Travolta - Danny

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!”
Stockard Channing - Aunt Frances

“- Flan Kittredge: Why do you stay in South Africa?
- Geoffrey: One has to stay there. To educate the black workers. And we'll know we've been successful when they kill us.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, goodness.
- Flan Kittredge: Planning the revolution that will destroy you.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Sir Ian McKellen - Geoffrey
Stockard Channing - Ouisa