Ellen Barkin Quotes

Abigail Sponder I'm afraid we're going to have to let you go. Turn in your uniform.

Waitress I only gained four pounds, you can't!

Sponder Sorry, sweetie, but your Body Mass Index is nowhere near where it's supposed to be.

Waitress But Ms. Sponder-

Sponder Oh no, honey. It's your butt that's the problem.

Frank Man, you can't fire no waitresses based on appearance, that's just unconstitutional.

Danny IF they were waitresses.

Linus Yeah, they're actually hired as "models who serve", so that Bank can monitor their personal appearance.

Rusty It's a cruel, cruel practice.

Maggie Foley A Season in Hell", a spiritual and confessional autobiography. Arthur Rimbaud was a genius, his writings were a quest. A search for perfection, an attempt to find total freedom. At the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud commited suicide, not of the flesh, but of the mind and the soul. It means he never wrote another word, and disappeared off the face of the earth. He was not seen nor heard from again for nearly twenty years, until he reappeared in a hospital within Marseille on his deathbed.

Maggie Foley The innocence of the 50s was over and so was rock and roll as we knew it. We were entering a new age, an age of confusion, an age of passion, of commitment. Eddie Wilson saw it coming. "Season in Hell" is the total innovation for its time. It was a signal a greatness yet to come. Eddie Wilson was a step ahead of us and I don't think we've caught up with him yet. Eddie's been dead for almost 18 years, but his music is as alive today as the day he recorded it. For me and for everyone who listens to music, Eddie Wilson lives and always will.

Joann Carlino There were so many things I wanted to say to him, so many questions I wanted to ask. But Eddie and I, we had a deal, we never talked about the future. We thought the present was so fine, why ruin it by planning ahead? But as Eddie drove off, I knew, I knew it then, it wasn't gonna be any future. In the morning, they told me that Eddie was gone, and they hadn't found his body.

Anne Osborne Why don't you believe that the killers were cops?

Remy McSwain Because if they were cops, they would've stayed right here. And when we arrived, we would've found plants, guns, knives, all kinds of evidence that they resisted arrest. That's somethin every cop in the world knows how to do.

Anne Osborne That sure doesn't surprise me.

Remy McSwain Oh yeah? Well, you probably know how to bribe a jury too, don't you? Even though you probably never have, huh?

Anne Osborne That's OK. I never did have much luck with sex anyway.

Remy McSwain Your luck's about to change, cher.

Laurette Look at you, Zack. Look what you're doin to yourself. You're diggin your own grave. Why can't you just stay at one station for awhile? Why do you always got to go fuck up your own future, huh? What are you so afraid of, Zack?

Zack Yeah, well, that's right, alright. You can't live in the present forever.

Maggie Foley Frank, how much influence did Rimbaud have on Eddie?

Frank Ridgeway Looking for a ghost?

Maggie Foley Maybe.

Frank Ridgeway You don't really think Eddie's still alive, do you?

Maggie Foley I guess not. But what about the coincindence of "Season in Hell"? Frank what happened to those tapes?

Frank Ridgeway Hey, look, it didn't work. The record company hated it, they never released the album.

Maggie Foley Frank, I want to get a hold of those tapes and play them on my show. Let's let them be heard, and let the people decide whether their any good.

Frank Ridgeway I don't know where they are. Honest, we'd like to find them as much as you would.

Anne Osborne You're a cop for God's sake, you're supposed to uphold the law, but instead you bend it and twist it and sell it. I saw you take that bribe and, and resist arrest and tamper with evidence and perjure yourself under oath.

Remy McSwain Don't forget I ran a red light too, huh.

Anne Osborne You still think it's funny, don't you? Why don't you just face it, Remy? You're not one of the good guys anymore.