Hailee Steinfeld Quotes

True Grit

Unpleasant Choices and Unkind Remarks

LaBoeuf You give out very little sugar with your pronouncements. While I sat there watchin I gave some thought to stealin a kiss, though you are very young, and sick, and unattractive to boot. But now I have a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.

Mattie Ross One would be just as unpleasant as the other.

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Sinners

Seeking Assurance of Goodness Among Friends

Remmick You looking for some fresh air, or...

Mary I just come to see if y'all was good people.

Remmick Aw darlin that's so sweet of you.

Joan So sweet.

Remmick We most surely are

Mary And y'all got money to spend?

[sitting next to him]

Remmick Oh yeah, plenty money. You wanna see?

Mary Yeah, I wanna see. What type of money is this?

[Bert hands her some gold]

Remmick The solid gold kind, darlin'. Yeah.

Mary Where's this from?

Remmick It's from a different place in a different time. But it spends just the same. You can have it. But it's no good to you.

Joan It's no good to her...

Bert Mmm-mm.

[shaking his head]

Mary Well, what makes you say that?

Remmick Cuz you in some deep, deep pain that money can't fix. Am I right? You came over here for fellowship and love.

[Mary looks at him]

Joan Fellowship and love...

Mary My mother... she just passed.

Remmick Aw that's awful. Ah...

Bert Just awful.

Joan Just awful...

[touches Mary's shoulder]

Bert Losin a mother is a hurtin feeling.

Remmick Mhmm. Y'know I wish in my heart that we'd have met sooner. I would've liked to have saved your mother from her fate. I can still save you from yours.

Mary Oh no you must have me confused. I'm sad is all, but I don't need no saving.

Remmick Yes... yes you do. You all do.

[eyes now red with drool hanging from his mouth; he looks at her neck and Mary quickly gets up and points a gun]

Mary I'm gonna head back now, and I think y'all should too. Back to where we all came from.

[as she walks away, Remmick levitates into the air, eyes glowing]

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Sinners

A Bold Proposition from Mary

Mary So you rob trains and banks but you can't steal this pussy for a night?

[to Stack]

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Sinners

Struggling with Guitar and Financial Challenges

Mary So, you play that guitar they left you?

Sammie Yeah.

Mary That's good. You makin any money with that thing?

Sammie Not really. Not yet, at least.

Mary I'd tell ya it didn't matter as long as you love it, but that'd be horseshit advice.

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Sinners

Mary's Concern for Sammie

Mary Take care, little Sammie.

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Sinners

Conflict Over Personal Boundaries

Mary Get yo hands off me.

Stack What's it gon take, hmm? How much to getchu to get the fuck on?

Mary You can't pay me off.

Stack Fine... I'll pay one of these field bitches in here to drag yo ass out, then—

Mary Shit, you taught me how to fight; I'll beat up every bitch in here, and you know it.

Stack I taught you how to walk away when the money's up, too. Got you a rich white husband, got you a farm, now go home to it.

Mary I ain't ask for none of that - all that shit was your idea! I didn't want no white man, I didn't want to be white. I wanted to be with you!

Stack All it'd take is the wrong person in here to see you - word get back to them crackas, and they gon try to kill you.

Mary What would it matter to you?

Stack Cause, if somebody out there put they hands on you... if they hurt you... me and my brother gon come kill em all.

Mary So you'll kill for me.

Stack That's right.

Mary But you still won't tell me the truth. I was young enough to believe you were comin back. I waited. I waited a long time. But I'm grown now, Stack! And I know you never planned to stay. Why can't you just say that?!

Stack Say what? Hmm? That I love you? That I think about you every day? I just wanted to keep you someplace safe. And that was never gon be here... and it was never gon be with me. Never.

[He removes his hat]

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Sinners

Introduction of Characters in Sinners

Remmick You fellers must be the owners of this establishment.

Smoke That's right. And you are?

Remmick Name's Remmick. This here's Joan and Bert.

Sammie Hey Stack, y'all alright?

Remmick Aww, and you... must be that voice I heard from out here. Aw, it was beautiful.

Joan God damn bee-yew-tiful voice.

Bert Even through these walls.

Smoke Where y'all from?

Joan Just down the road.

Stack And how far is that?

Remmick North Carolina.

Smoke Y'all Klan?

Remmick Sir... w-we believe in equality and music. We just came here to play. Spend some money, have a good time. Here, I'll show you.

[offended]

Smoke Hold on hold on, just a minute.

[stopping the music after a bit]

Remmick Aw, its just about to get good.

Smoke Nah I believe ya. But this here a juke joint.

Stack Blues music.

Bert Well we've got money and we ready to spend it with y'all.

Remmick Soundin damn near perfect and you're saying we ain't welcome.

Smoke Nah I'm saying you get down that road and get back into town. Plenty of white barrel houses down there.

Remmick Aw this- this cuz we're... Alright. How'd she get in?

[chuckles; gestures to skin; Points at Mary]

Mary Now that is none-

Annie She here cuz she family.

[interrupting]

Remmick Family... Can- can we just, for one night, just all be family? Y-you don't need to do that, sir. We'll be on our way. But we're gonna walk real slow, just in case y'all change your mind.

[sighs; he steps forward, and Smoke reaches for his gun]

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True Grit

Gun Misfires and Gender Expectations

Mattie Ross If I had killed Chaney, I would not be in this fix, but my gun misfired.

Lucky Ned Pepper They will do it. It will embarrass you every time. Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns, do you?

[Chuckling]

Mattie I do not care a thing about guns. If I did, I would have one that worked.

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The Edge of Seventeen

Confronting the Reality of Self-Existence

Nadine Franklin I just had a horrible thought... I’m going to have to spend the rest of my life with myself.

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True Grit

Witty Banter in True Grit

LaBoeuf I've just come from Yell County.

Mattie Ross We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County.

LaBoeuf A saucy line will not get you far with me.

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True Grit

Reflections on Time and Unmarried Life

Mattie Ross I had the body removed to our plot, and I have visited it over the years. No doubt people talk about that. They say, "Well, she hardly knew the man. Isn't she a cranky old maid?" It is true, I have not married. I never had time to fool with it. I heard nothing more of the Texas officer LaBoeuf. If he is yet alive, I would be pleased to hear from him. I judge he would be in his seventies now, and nearer eighty than seventy. I expect some of the starch has gone out of that cowlick. Time just gets away from us.

[Final voice-over, as an adult, after learning of Rooster's death]

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The Edge of Seventeen

Perspectives on Life's Inequalities

Nadine Franklin There are two types of people in the world: The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all those people die in a big explosion.

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The Edge of Seventeen

Encouragement to Overcome Social Awkwardness

Nadine Franklin Don't be awkward. Socialize.

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Sinners

Confrontation Over Loss and Betrayal

Stack The hell are you doin back here, Mary?

Mary I buried my mama yesterday, Stack. Figured I'd might see you and Smoke there, as much as she looked after you both. But I guess y'all love lasted as long as y'all could get somethin out of her.

Stack You right. That's all she was: Food, a warm bed.

Mary Rot in Hell, Stack!

[walks away]

Stack Shit, I will. And save yo triflin ass a room! Shit, right next to me... shit...

[as she walks away]

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Sinners

Casual Banter Between Characters

Stack You droolin'.

Mary You want some?

Sinners

Unreciprocated Feelings and Conflicting Messages

Mary You know, I waited for you.

Stack Shit, I don't know why in the hell you gon do that.

Mary Because you told me you loved me.

Stack Well, I told you to stay the fuck away from me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part, huh?

Mary Ohh, I heard you. I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in my cooze and fucked me so hard, I figured you changed your mind.

Stack Keep your voice down now.

The Edge of Seventeen

A Bold Confession in a Stockroom

Nadine Franklin Nick, I like you. I want you to put your mouth on my tits. We can do it in the Petland stockroom.

True Grit

Occupied Space and Prior Business

Rooster Cogburn The jakes is occupied.

Mattie Ross I know it is occupied, Mr. Cogburn. As I said, I have business with you.

Rooster I have prior business.

Mattie You have been at it for quite some time, Mr. Cogburn.

Rooster There is no clock on my business! To hell with you! How did you stalk me here?

Mattie The sheriff told me to look in the saloon. In the saloon they referred me here. We must talk.

Rooster Women ain't allowed in the saloon!

Mattie I was not there as a customer. I am fourteen years old.

Rooster The jakes is occupied, and will be for some time.

[long pause]

True Grit

A Young Girl's Quest for Justice

Mattie Ross People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood, but it did happen. I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band. Chaney was a hired man and Papa had taken him up to Fort Smith to help lead back a string of Mustang ponies he had bought. In town, Chaney had fallen to drink and cards and lost all his money. He got it into his head he was being cheated and went back to the boarding house for his Henry rifle. When Papa tried to intervene, Chaney shot him. Chaney fled. He could have walked his horse, for not a soul in that city could be bothered to give chase. No doubt Chaney fancied himself scot-free, but he was wrong. You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free, except the grace of God.

[Opening voice-over, as an adult]

True Grit

Dispute Over Horse and Saddle Ownership

Col. Stonehill I will pay two hundred and twenty-five dollars and keep the grey horse. I don't want the ponies.

Mattie Ross I cannot accept that. There will be no settlement after I leave this office. It will go to law—

Col. Stonehill All right! This is my last offer: two hundred and fifty dollars. For that, I get the release previously discussed and I keep your father's saddle. The grey horse is not yours to sell!

Mattie The saddle is not for sale. I will keep it. Lawyer Dagget will prove ownership of the grey horse. He will come after you with a writ of replevin.

Sinners

Confrontation Between Sammie and Mary

Sammie Moore I don't think you should be here. See, I'm with the twins.

Mary With the twins? Boy, if you don't get the fuck outta my face.

True Grit

Clarifying the Meaning of Futility

Mattie Ross And "futile," Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l.

Sinners

Determined to Eliminate All Opponents

Mary Ooh, we gonna kill every last one of you.

True Grit

Debate Over Burial Timing and Conditions

Rooster Cogburn We'll sleep here and follow in the morning.

Mattie Ross But we promised to bury the poor soul inside!

Rooster Ground's too hard. Them men wanted a decent burial, they should have got themselves killed in summer.

The Edge of Seventeen

Struggling with Faith and Frustration

Nadine Franklin Please. Please, god, help me. Why do I even bother? Why do I even... You've never given me one thing. Any time I ask you for anything, you're like, "oh, you need help with something? Let me help you. I'm just playing. I'm gonna butt-fuck you some more.

[in the bathroom; she reaches for toilet paper, but there is none left.]

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