Maria Bello Quotes

Cammie I'm Cammie, the ] tease.

Violet Violet, the Jersey nun.

Cammie We all play our little parts. That one's Rachel, the New York bitch. Only Rachel really is a bitch, and I really am a tease.

Lil Cammie, you can only be a tease if you stop sleepin around, babe.

Cammie Yeah, I keep forgetting that part!

Nell McLaughlin When are you going to look at your daughter... and realize that she's you?

Dickie Pilager I repeat I'm not raising taxes. We can't just keep throwing the taxpayers hard-earned money at these perceived ... and some of them I admit are real ... so-called social problems. We have to get our priorities straight. Education is a priority. Affordable housing for our working people is a priority. Health care is a priority. Our economy is a priority. The environmental ... the whole environmental ... arena ... that's a big priority. Building new roads and maintaining the present ... keeping the infrastructure in place, where it belongs, that's a priority.

Nora Allardyce What isn't a priority?

Dickie Pilager What's not a priority ... is those matters which are of less of a ... not that they're not important but ... if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like ... cooking ... there needs to be something sitting on the back one. And that's where your other organizations, your church people and your ... organizations formed to help these things, will be happy to pitch in if only government would get out of their way.

Dickie Pilager In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice ... you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no ... it didn't cost the taxpayer ... if they had had taxpayers back then ... those were the good old days, I suppose ... and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!

Reporter 1 So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis ...

Dickie Pilager My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.

Nora Allardyce But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are ...

Dickie Pilager You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!

Nora Allardyce There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with ...

Dickie Pilager Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren ... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here!

Dickie Pilager Yes?

Lil That's Rachel, you can learn a lot from her.

Violet She just cut some guy's ponytail off.

Lil Yeah, the court ordered her to take anger-management classes after she pummeled a customer for grabbing her ass. He pressed charges, I gave her a raise. Cheers!

Grace Waiting's shit, isn't it?

Donna McLoughlin Yeah.

Grace If it's gonna be bad, you just want to know it. No bullshit.

Donna McLoughlin That's right. They're digging my husband out. They found him in the rubble.

Grace That's good. My son's down there. Lawrence. He's the elevator operator in the South Tower. A good boy. When I saw that building going down like a pancake... Damn thing is, I yelled at him. Last time... I made dinner. He got held up at work. Food went to waste. And I yelled. Now all I want to do is hold him.

Donna McLoughlin I know. I know. I know. Oh, come here. Come here. I know. I know, sweetie. It's all right. It's all right. Come here. It's all right. You're okay. I know. Thank you so... Thank you so...

Evelyn O'Connell (about his fishing) At least you've got a hobby that doesn't involve guns.

Heather Holloway My other interviews have pinned you as a mass murderer, blood sucker, pimp, profiteer and my personal favorite, yuppie Mephistopheles.

Doak "The Captain" Boykin You're family now. Tobacco takes care of its own.

Joey Naylor It's like you always said, Dad, "If you want an easy job, go work for the Red Cross.

Bobby Jay Bliss It was some pretty fucked up shit.

Polly Bailey Are you a tit man?

Rob McLaughlin I'm done discussing this.

Howard McLaughlin Well, I'm not done! Katy found Flicka, she should decide!

Rob McLaughlin Until you're running this ranch, I'll make the decisions around here!

Howard McLaughlin I DON'T WANNA RUN YOUR RANCH!

Nell McLaughlin Howard!

Lynne They keep showing the same thing over and over and over.

Judy Jonas Jay's there. They must have called in every company in the city. He would have been there early.

Donna McLoughlin Yeah, John, too, probably. He knows those buildings so well.

Judy Jonas Oh, my God!

Donna McLoughlin Judy. Listen to me. Listen to me. Look. They evacuated those buildings. All right? I'm sure most everybody got out. They're fine. In the 93 attack, John said everybody got out real quick.

Judy Jonas God. In 93, the buildings didn't fall down!

Girl Can I ask you something?

Lil What?

Girl What does Coyote Ugly mean?

Lil Did you ever wake up sober after a one night stand, and the person you're next to is lying on your arm, and they're so ugly, you'd rather chew off your arm then risk waking em? That's coyote ugly.

Girl My God. Well, why would you name your bar after something like that?

Lil Oh, cause Cheers was taken.