Piper LaurieQuotes

Bea Sullivan: Oh! I've been looking for you. Anytime you're ready. You okay?

Andre Jorgensen: Yeah. Just going over in my mind what I want to say.

Bea Sullivan: Look at these people outside! I think every shareholder within driving distance is coming! I feel as if we're Harry and Bess on election night!

Andrew Jorgensen: Harry Truman was a better man than me. He slept on election night. I haven't slept in days.

Bea Sullivan: Talk to me. Tell me.

Andrew Jorgensen: I'm scared. I'm scared that time has passed us by. I'm scared I don't know this new environment. I'm scared that what I do know doesn't count for anything anymore. Things have changed. Whatever happened to people serving each other? I don't want this man to win.

Bea Sullivan: [[Harry S. Truman|Go give 'em hell, Harry] I'm not scared. I'm just proud. I'm proud of the business we've built. I'm so proud of you. And if what we are counts for nothing anymore, then, that's their failing, not ours. We'll be all right. Just go out and tell the truth. ].

Carrie White: [[laughed] It was bad, Mama, they ] at me, hold me, Momma, please hold me.

Margaret White: I should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised and I believed him, but sin never dies,... sin never dies, at first it was all right, we lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it, with all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.

Carrie White: Yes.

Margaret White: We'll pray. we'll pray. we'll pray for the last time, we'll pray.

Margaret White: [''Referring to Carrie's prom gown''] Red. I might have known it would be red.

Carrie White: [''Presenting her corsage''; [beautiful] It's pink, Momma. Look what Tommy gave me, Mama, aren't they ]?

Margaret White: [[w:Breast|your dirty pillows] I can see ], everyone will.

Carrie White: Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.

Margaret White: You must renounce this power, you must give it up, you must never use it.

Carrie White: I'm going momma, you can't stop me, and I don't wanna talk about it anymore.

Margaret White: Carrie, you haven't touched your apple cake.

Carrie White: It gives me pimples, Momma.

Margaret White: Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.

Carrie White: [''After long pause''] Momma?

Margaret White: Yeah.

Carrie White: Momma, please say that I've to try and get along with people better.

Margaret White: [''Giggles''] What are you going on about, Carrie?

Carrie White: I've been invited to the prom.

Margaret White: [''Long pause, then looking sternly at Carrie''] Prom?

Carrie White: Yeah, the prom... everyone's goin'.

Margaret White: It was that teacher that called, wasn't it?

Carrie White: Please see that I'm not like you, Momma, I'm funny... I mean, all the kids think I'm funny I don't wanna be. I wanna be normal. I wanna start to try me, a whole person before it's too late for me!

Carrie White: His (Carrie's boyfriend's) name is Tommy Ross, and he's a very nice boy, Momma...

Margaret White: No.

Carrie White: and he promised to come in and meet you--

Carrie White: and he'd have me home by midnight and--

Margaret White: [''Carrie bangs the table''] No. No, no, no!

Margaret White: Go to your closet!

Carrie White: No.

Margaret White: [''Pause''] After all, you've been taught, Carrie!

Carrie White: Everyone ain't bad, Momma. Everything ain't no sin!

Margaret White: Go to your closet and pray, ask to be forgiven.

Carrie White: He's a nice boy, momma, We like you, mama, You'll like him.

Margaret White: [''Laughs and claps''; ''The thunderstorm is heard''] Boys? The boys, the boys? Yes, the boys. After the blood, comes the boys like sniffing dogs, grinning and slobbering and trying to find out where that smell comes from!

Carrie White: Momma, momma, make it stop, momma.

Margaret White: Where that smell has that smell! Listen, I know where they take them, because I've seen it all right! Well, you're not going.

Carrie White: Already said I would.

Margaret White: Tell that boy you're not going, or we're gonna move from here!

Carrie White: No.

Margaret White: We're gonna move from here and you'll never see that boy again. The rain's coming in. I'm gonna close the window.

Carrie White: [''Crying''; ''Carrie's telekenetic powers make shades/windows/doors closed and the thunderstorm is heard again''] Please sit and talk with me. momma, I'll get him, PLEASE, SIT DOWN AND TALK TO ME! I'm going, momma, things are gonna change around here.

Margaret White: [[Witch; [w:Spirit possession|Got Satan's Power] ], ].

Carrie White: [''Crying''; [w:Satan|Satan] There's nothing to do with ], Momma, it's me, me, if I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.

Margaret White: I know you're listening, Carrie, come on downstairs!

Carrie White: [''Coming down from upstairs or closing the door, Margaret has called her down after the phone call she received''] Momma, who is that? Who called?

Margaret White: [[woman] So, you’re a ] now.

Carrie White: [''Margaret slaps Carrie's face begins to read a verse from [[w:The Woman's Bible|The Woman's Bible] Why didn't you tell me, Momma? I...

Margaret White: [''Reading from religious manual''; [God; [Eve; [Adam; [raven; [world] And ] made ] from the rib of ], and Eve was weak and loosed the ] on the ], and the raven was called sin. (pause) Say it, the raven was called sin.

Carrie White: Why didn't you tell me, Momma?

Margaret White: [''Hits Carrie in the face''; ''Hits her again''] Say it. The raven was called sin.

Carrie White: [''Margaret hits her again''] No, Momma. And the raven was called sin!

Margaret White: [[w:Original sin|the first sin; [w:Sexual intercourse|intercourse] And ] was ], the first sin was intercourse.

Carrie White: I didn't sin, Momma.

Margaret White: [''Hits her again''] Say it.

Carrie White: I didn't sin, Momma!

Margaret White: The first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.

Carrie White: And the first sin was intercourse, momma, I was so scared, I thought I was dying, and the girls... they all (everyone) laughed at me and threw tampons at me, momma.

Margaret White: [''Hits her again''] And Eve was weak, say it, Carrie!

Carrie White: No!

Margaret White: Eve was weak!

Carrie White: NO!

Margaret White: Eve was weak, say it, woman!

Carrie White: NO, NO, MOMMA!

Margaret White: Say it!

Carrie White: And Eve was weak... Eve was weak!

Margaret White: And the Lord visited Eve with the curse, and the curse was the curse of the Christ's blood!

Carrie White: You should have told me, momma, You should've told me.

Margaret White: [''Kneels down and grabs Carrie's hands''] Oh, Lord, help this sinning woman see the sin of her days and ways, show her that if she had remained sinless, this curse of the Christ's blood would never have come down on her! She may have been tempted by the Antichrist and she may have been conceived by the son of lustful gods.

Carrie White: No, momma, no...!

Margaret White: Don't lie to me, Carrieta, don't you know by now that I can see the inside of you?

Carrie White: No...

Margaret White: I can see the sin as surely as God can!

Carrie White: Let me go, Momma, please, you're hurting me.

Margaret White: We'll pray.

Carrie White: [''Margaret puts Carrie in the closet and locks the closet door''] No! No, Momma! No! NO! NO, NO,...LET ME GO! God, NO...! NO...!

Carrie White: [''Bangs on the door; ''Bangs on the door''; ''Immediately calms down, lights a candle, clasps hands in before a Jesus statue''] ] OW, AH, GET OFF ME, MOMMA...! LET ME GOOOOO, LET ME GOOOOO! LET ME OU...T! MOMMA, LET ME OUT, please, momma, please, help me, MOMMA, GOD!

Margaret White: [[God; [Christ; [blood] I'm here on the Lord's work, Mrs. Snell; spreadin the gospel of ]'s salvation through ]'s ]!

Mrs. Snell: Yes, of course.

Margaret White: These are godless times, Mrs. Snell.

Mrs. Snell: I'll drink to that, Mrs. White, I like to contribute five... ten dollars.

Margaret White: [[Jesus] I see. I pray you find ].

Margaret White: [''To Carrie, about Tommy Ross and everyone else''] He's going to laugh at you, they're all going to laugh at you!

Margaret White: [''To Eleanor''; [Jesus] I pray you find ].