Hard Candy Quotes

Hayley Stark I shouldn't have teased you like that. I shouldn't have let you think there was a way out of this.

Jeff Kohlver You're getting yourself in terrible trouble.

Hayley Stark Oh? Oh, and how's that?

Jeff Kohlver If you cut me in any way, you won't forget it. It changes you when you hurt somebody.

Hayley Stark Oh, and you speak from experience, I guess.

Jeff Kohlver I've just lived. Unlike you. The things you do wrong... they haunt you.

Hayley Stark Tell me what you're haunted by.

Jeff Kohlver Do you wanna remember this day when you're with a guy? On a date? Or on your wedding night? Cause I promise you you will. Don't do that to yourself.

Hayley Stark Wow... You know, that is so thoughtful! You are speaking to me so selflessly! I mean, you just don't want me to castrate you for my own benefit? Wow, I'm touched. Jeff, why don't we imagine someone saying the same thing to you at a random moment? Imagine that when you downloaded this little girl... I was sitting by your side saying "Stop! Don't do that to yourself!". Would you have listened?

Hayley Stark Well, if Denise was here right now, what would you say?

Jeff Kohlver I'd say, "Help... a teenager cut my balls off. Call the police.

Jeff Kohlver Look, I'm not the monster you think I am. But, okay, I crossed a line. Just call the cops. I'll turn myself in.

Hayley Stark Cute Pedophile Pleads Guilty. Aww, it's not his fault. He's sick. He has an addiction.

Jeff Kohlver I'll do jail. Isn't, isn't that what should happen?

Hayley Stark Yeah. You might. You might get jail time. I dunno: therapy, drugs, group discussions, notifying people when you move into a new house. How bad is that, really?

Jeff Kohlver It'll ruin my career, ruin my life.

Hayley Stark Well, didn't ] just win an Oscar?

Hayley Stark Oh, Jeff. This is what they make those federal laws for, Jeff. This is officially sick.

Hayley Stark You really just don't look like the kind of guy who needs to meet girls over the internet.

Jeff Kohlver Well, I think it's better to meet people online first, sometimes. You get to know what they're like inside. When you work as a photographer, you find out real quick people's faces lie.

Hayley Stark Does my face lie?

Hayley Stark Turns out castration is one of the easiest surgical procedures around. There's thousands of farmboys across the country gelding their livestock. If they can do it, I think I can pull it off. If you know what I mean.

Jeff Kohlver I'm not fucking livestock.

Hayley Stark You keep telling yourself that, stud.

Jeff Kohlver Look, look. I've been lonely, okay? And that makes me stupid, but I am not a pedophile. Look, this is some horrible mistake. Just untie me now and we'll forget this whole thing ever happened. Just untie me now!

Hayley Stark Okay, well you know what? I am not lonely and therefore not stupid. I untie you, you might understandably be a little peeved. So when I am ready to go, I'll call a cab and call another one to let you loose.

Jeff Kohlver And when will that be?

Hayley Stark I'm not sure yet.

Jeff Kohlver Why, uhh, why do I get, tied up first if, if this is how we're gonna play?

Hayley Stark Jeff, playtime is over... Now it's time to wake up.

Jeff Kohlver Ah, so you and your mom are both wacked?

Hayley Stark I dunno. That's that whole nature versus nurture question, isn't it? Was I born a cute, vindictive little bitch or... did society make me that way? I go back and forth on that...

Jeff Kohlver Which do you wanna fuck first, me or the knife?

Jeff Kohlver You've been stalking me?

Hayley Stark Okay, okay, let's get something straight. You have been stalking me. I went into different chat rooms with different nicknames and you would get to know each one. And as soon as you found out they were any bit older than me you would just drop them like that. You took your time sniffing out someone my age.

Jeff Kohlver I didn't talk to the others because they were boring. You and I connected.

Hayley Stark Right.

Jeff Kohlver Oh, come on, you think I faked all that?

Hayley Stark You know, actually, it's kinda funny. Because every time I would mention some obscure singer or band, you knew so much about them. But not right away, it was like a few minutes later. Maybe enough time to look them up on the web? Jeff, you used the same phrases about Goldfrapp as they do on Amazon.com. Busted! Oh and by the way, I fucking hate Goldfrapp.

Jeff Kohlver Who the hell are you?

Hayley Stark I am every little girl you ever watched, touched, hurt, screwed, killed.

Hayley Stark 4 out of 5 doctors agree that I am actually insane.

Jeff Kohlver I'm not going to beg you.

Hayley Stark You mean you're not going to beg again? Because you do it so well. "Please, pretty please with a cherry on top!"... One that you just had to pop.

Jeff Kohlver Those letters are mine.

Hayley Stark Nothing's yours when you invite a teenager into your home.

Jeff Kohlver Look, I'm a decent guy. Ask anyone. Go ahead. Ask these models. Call them; they'll tell you.

Hayley Stark Of course they will. You're not an idiot, Jeff. You don't piss where you live. Those girls were your work, and I, on the other hand, was your play.

Jeff Kohlver You were coming on to me!

Hayley Stark Oh, come on. That's what they always say, Jeff.

Jeff Kohlver Who?

Hayley Stark Who? The pedophiles! "Oh, she was so sexy. She was asking for it. She was only technically a girl, she acted like a woman." It's just so easy to blame a kid, isn't it? Just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman, does NOT mean she's ready to do what a woman does! I mean, you're the grown-up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it, you don't encourage it. If a kid says "Heeey, let's make Screwdrivers!", you take the alcohol away and you don't race them to the next drink!

Jeff Kohlver You're right. You're right, Hayley. Thank you. Thank you. This is me. This who I am. Thank you. Thank you for helping me see it.