Wild Things (1998) - Quotes

Trust and Betrayal in Relationships

Taglines: They can turn you on or turn on you.

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Desire and Danger in Wild Things

Taglines: They're dying to play with you.

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Embrace Wildness and Caution

Taglines: Be wild. Be wicked. Beware.

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Medea's Actions Discussed in Wild Things Scene

Suzie: Before Medea sailed away on the Helios she killed king Creon and the princess, with what? A: A rock. B: Spear-gun or C: a bit of Poison.

Sam: [gasping] P-oison...

Suzie: [Lets lose the sail rigging hitting Sam in the head and flinging him overboard] Good guess.

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Unexpected Reactions in a High-Stakes Situation

Kelly Van Ryan: Whooo, it worked! we screwed the bitch!

Kelly Van Ryan: It worked just like you said. What's wrong?

Sam: You scared the shit out of me. What's wrong, is you're coming here. That's what's wrong. Are you fuckin crazy?

Kelly Van Ryan: Yeah, I'm crazy. Ask my mom.

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Conflict Over Trust and Betrayal

Sam: Hello, Kelly.

Kelly Van Ryan: Drop dead. You know how my mom's paying you off? She's breaking my trust. I can't touch it until she's dead, and now she's breaking it to pay you.

Sam: I'm sorry, Kelly.

Kelly Van Ryan: Why don't you start fucking her again! You can spend it together! I hate you!

Kelly Van Ryan: I fucking hate you, you son of a bitch! I fucking hate you!

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Tension Escalates Among Characters in Courtroom

Kenneth Bowden: [Passing Sandra Van Ryan's limo and honking the horn] Hey, look who we've got here. Hey, Sandra!

Sandra Van Ryan: I want you to nail that shyster's balls to the wall!

Tom Baxter: Well, that might have been possible if miss not-so-bright here hadn't started throwing things in court.

Kelly Van Ryan: Fuck off!

Sandra Van Ryan: I can't believe you're going to let them, get away with this... shit!

Tom Baxter: I don't think you understand, Sandy. Your little princess here committed perjury. It will be all I can do to keep her fucking little ass out of jail.

Sandra Van Ryan: Well... what are we going to do?

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Family Secrets and Betrayal Unfold

Suzie: Kelly's pissed at Mr. Lombardo too. She's in love with him. I mean he's been her whole fantasy since her old man died, and then she found out that Mr. Lombardo was doing her mom and that was it.

Sandra Van Ryan: What? Kelly!

Kelly Van Ryan: [getting out of her seat and throwing a glass at Suzie in the witness stand] You skanky bitch!

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The Challenges of Investigative Procedures

Gloria Perez: What about asking her to take a polygraph?

Detective Ray Duquette: What about asking the Pope to take a piss test? This is Blue Bay, Gloria. You ask a Van Ryan to take a lie detector test and Tom Baxter'll cut you off at the knees.

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Tension between Suzie and Kelly escalates.

Suzie: You - you are gonna fuck me over, aren't you?

Kelly Van Ryan: Oh, for chrissake.

Suzie: You are!

Kelly Van Ryan: Are you retarded, or just brain-dead from whiffing fumes out there in the swamp?

Suzie: That's that I am to you, isn't it? Swamp trash, just like my mom.

Suzie: Don't!

Kelly Van Ryan: [Kelly shoves Suzie's head in the pool] You stupid cunt!

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Trust and Fear Among Friends

Kelly Van Ryan: I can't believe you called Sam. What's the matter with you?

Suzie: I'm scared, that's what. I'm scared. There's no one to trust.

Kelly Van Ryan: You can trust me.

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Dealing with Loss and Grief

Kelly Van Ryan: I miss Dad.

Sandra Van Ryan: I miss him too... sometimes...

Kelly Van Ryan: No you don't!

Sandra Van Ryan: He didn't HAVE to kill himself, Kelly.

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An Unexpected Encounter with an Insurance Agent

Sam: [Bwoden is wearing a neck brace] What do you do to your neck?

Kenneth Bowden: [looks out the window and takes it off] Oh, this? I don't have to wear it all the time. There was an insurance guy around here earlier.

Accusations and Connections Unraveled

Sam: I was, until yesterday, a guidance counselor at Blue Bay High School. A student there is accusing me of rape.

Kenneth Bowden: Male or female?

Sam: The student is Kelly Van Ryan.

Kenneth Bowden: As in Sandra Van Ryan?

Sam: As in I'm fucked.

Confrontation Over Daughter's Safety in Blue Bay

Tom Baxter: Maybe you didn't hear me, Lombardo. You're finished in Blue Bay. And if I find you around my daughter again, you'll be finished, period. Get the fuck out of here.