“The Legend of Billie Jean” quotes

(1985)
Movie The Legend of Billie Jean
Title The Legend of Billie Jean
Year 1985
Director Matthew Robbins
Genre Drama, Action
All actors – Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote, Martha Gehman, Yeardley Smith, Dean Stockwell, Barry Tubb, Mona Lee Fultz, Bobby Jones, John M. Jackson
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  • - Putter: Is that a boy or a girl?
    - Lloyd: Girl, Joan of Arc. She dressed up as a man and led the French in fighting the English. She heard voices, "stop being a peasant", "France needs you", "the truth needs you". And she won, she beat the English, but then...
    - Putter: Then what?
    - Lloyd: The French, burnt her, alive!

    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
    [Tag:gender, history, war]
  • “- Binx: I didn't mean to shoot him, you heard what he said, he said it wasn't loaded.
    - Billie Jean: We have to go to the police.
    - Ophelia: They'll never believe you.
    - Binx: It was an accident!
    - Ophelia: You think he's gonna say that? It's his word against a bunch of crazykids, he's gonna lie.”

    Christian Slater - Binx
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    [Tag:accident, lies, police]
  • “- Putter: Billie Jean, I don't feel so good.
    - Billie Jean: I wonder why, you only ate 12 Kit-Kats.”

    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    [Tag:chocolate, eating]
  • “- Binx: What are those, uppers or downers?
    - Lloyd: They're for asthma, you want one?”

    Christian Slater - Binx
    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
    [Tag:disease, medicine]
  • “- Ophelia: Would you look at those tits?
    - Putter: I think they're gross.
    - Ophelia: That's because you don't have any.”

    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    [Tag:breast, dislike]
  • “- Putter: Where's Binx? Did he get in trouble? What did he do? Can I come, Billie Jean? I love police stations.
    - Billie Jean: I thought you were grounded.
    - Putter: I am.”

    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
  • “- Binx: Hey, get your hand off that!
    - Hubie: What, your sister? Or your fagmobile?”

    Christian Slater - Binx
    Barry Tubb - Hubie
    [Tag:cars, insult, sisters]
  • “- Billie Jean: You ever been to Vermont?
    - Lloyd: Sure, on ski trips.
    - Billie Jean: Maybe we should go there tonight, all of us, hitchhike.
    - Lloyd: You can't do that, not now, everybody knows you, they want to see you get the money.
    - Billie Jean: They want to see us dead, remember Joan of Arc?”

    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
  • “- Lloyd: I'm going to be your hostage, then they have to reason with you. I'm your guarantee.
    - Putter: Like when you buy a car.
    - Ophelia: That's a warranty.”

    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    [Tag:crime, helping]
  • “Hubie and the truth have a way of not gettin' along with each other.”
    Richard Bradford - Pyatt
    [Tag:lies, truth]
  • “- Ophelia: She's been shot!
    - Putter: No I haven't!
    - Billie Jean: But there's blood! Putter, it's finally happened.
    - Putter: It's about time.
    - Binx: Gross!”

    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    Christian Slater - Binx
    [Tag:blood, period]
  • “- Billie Jean: Who wants to watch this?
    - Putter: I do!
    - Ophelia: You like anything on the TV.”

    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    [Tag:like, television]
  • “- Pyatt: Little more, little less, just take the money.
    - Billie Jean: For my troubles? Or to keep my mouth shut? Or maybe for a few minutes in the upstairs room of your store. How much is that worth to you, Mister Pyatt?
    - Pyatt: Nobody forced you up there, you knew exactly what you were doing.
    - Billie Jean: But what about our lessons? Pay as...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Richard Bradford - Pyatt
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
  • “- Ophelia: You're supposed to be taking your medication! Your father says please give him his pills!
    - Lloyd: I haven't had a pill since we left the house, haven't wheezed once.”

    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
    [Tag:disease, medicine]
  • “- Lloyd: I'm done being your hostage.
    - Billie Jean: Fine, I'll see you in jail!”

    Keith Gordon - Lloyd
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    [Tag:prison]
  • “- Ringwald: If that scooter's not back on your front lawn in two days...
    - Billie Jean: We live in Breeze Haven...
    - Ringwald: All right, in front of your trailer... you give us a call, we'll... drag in the fucker.”

    Peter Coyote - Ringwald
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
  • “You think you can do anything you want and then lie about it and we just have to take it, because what are we? Just a bunch of kids. Well not this time. From now on we're doin' this our way. No lyin', no cheatin', fair is fair. $608 dollars for the scooter your son trashed. That's what you owe, and we're not turnin' ourselves in til we get it....” (continue)(continue reading)

    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
    [Tag:debt, payment]
  • “- Binx: Let's go to Vermont.
    - Ophelia: We don't have enough gas to get out of Corpus.
    - Binx: Then we'll steal it, we're outlaws, right?
    - Billie Jean: No stealing, we may be outlaws but we're not thieves.
    - Putter: I'm a hungry outlaw, where's breakfast?”

    Christian Slater - Binx
    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    Helen Slater - Billie Jean
  • “- Binx: What's this?
    - Putter: I think it's chicken.
    - Binx: It doesn't taste like chicken.
    - Ophelia: When you rich, food ain't supposed to taste like what it really is.”

    Christian Slater - Binx
    Yeardley Smith - Putter
    Martha Gehman - Ophelia
    [Tag:food, taste, wealth]
  • “- News Announcer: What do you think of this Billie Jean character?
    - Interview Girl: She's a rebel, and uh... I'm gonna personally... I think they're picking on her because she's a girl, and I think that's disgusting.
    - News Announcer: Well there you have a woman's perspective...”

    Charles Redd - News Announcer
    Cehlia Adair Newman Cehlia Barnum - Interview Girl
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