Soapdish (1991)
Elisabeth Shue: Lori Craven
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Quotes
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Lori Craven : Hi. Uh, I'm Lori Craven and... I'm an actress.
Betsy Faye Sharon : An actress! Really! How nice for you! I'm Betsy Faye Sharon and I'm a bitch. Now get out of here.
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Celeste Talbert : I never said I was the best mother in the world. Give me a little credit, will you, credit for being someone who tried... to love you the only way she knew how?
Lori Craven : I know that speech.
Celeste Talbert : You do?
Lori Craven : Yeah, it was the, uh, the Thanksgiving show, when Maggie meets Bolt's blind nephew.
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Jeffrey Anderson : Of course I can kiss her!
Lori Craven : This is ridiculous! I can kiss who I want!
Celeste Talbert : No! You can't! You can't kiss her!
Jeffrey Anderson : Why because she's *your* neice?
Celeste Talbert : [shouts] No, you nitwit! Because she's my daughter! And your daughter.
Lori Craven : What?
Jeffrey Anderson : What are you talking about?
Celeste Talbert : We're her parents! *You* and I!
[sobbing]
Celeste Talbert : We're her Mommy and her Daddy.
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Lori Craven : [bursting into David's office] We need to talk. Look, I don't care WHAT Tawny Miller says. This hat makes me look like the GOD damned Tweety Bird.
[to Montana]
Lori Craven : Do you mind?
Montana Moorehead : You, you're asking me to leave?
Lori Craven : That's right. I'm asking you to leave.
Montana Moorehead : David...
David Barnes : Miss Moorehead, may Miss Craven and I have a moment alone, please?
Montana Moorehead : No problem. I'm a professional. I do things professionally.
[storms out]
Montana Moorehead : [from off stage] I hate you! I hate you, you pig!
David Barnes : She's got a lot of spirit.
Lori Craven : She's a deranged bitch!
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Lori Craven : You people have the morals of guinney pigs!
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Lori Craven : Celeste, I want to act!
Celeste Talbert : Don't say that, "I want to act", ever, please!
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Lori Craven : Excuse me. Can I join you? I'm Lori Craven: the homeless mute.
Jeffrey Anderson : You speak beautifully for a mute.
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[scene switch back and forth of Celeste, Lori, and Jeffrey in Edwards' office]
Celeste Talbert : I never worked in an atmosphere like this before.
Jeffrey Anderson : This whole pregnancy thing is a scam! I resent being treated like a leper!
Lori Craven : Having to work with these two is a personal nightmare for me. I'm on the verge of a breakdown!
Celeste Talbert : I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown!
Jeffrey Anderson : I could conceivably have a breakdown.
Lori Craven : I mean, can you imagine what it's like having to face them on the set every single day?
Celeste Talbert : It just seems to get harder and harder, even though I devoted my entire life to this show.
Jeffrey Anderson : [walks back and forth lost for words] Uh...
Lori Craven : Mr. Edwards, it's them or me, that is the bottom line here. They go or I go!
Edwards : This is the toughest decision I ever have to make, but I get paid 1.2 million dollars to make these kind of command decisions. So here it is...
[eats a cracker]
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Lori Craven : The hand thing is starting to sound rehearsed.
Jeffrey Anderson : Rehearsed? Maybe I need new material.
Lori Craven : No, I mean talk, like ourselves.
Jeffrey Anderson : Would you like to have dinner?
Lori Craven : Yes
Jeffrey Anderson : With me?
Lori Craven : Yes
Jeffrey Anderson : Just like that?
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Lori Craven : Get out!
Celeste Talbert : [crying] Please try to understand what I am going through.
Lori Craven : I don't give a *shit* what you're going through!
Celeste Talbert : There's no need to use that kind of language.
Lori Craven : [shouts] Get out! Now!
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David Barnes : [about Montana] She's got a lot of spirit.
Lori Craven : She's a deranged bitch.
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[Jeffrey is about to prepare the brain transplant]
Lori Craven : MOTHER!
[Celeste sits up]
Lori Craven : No, I can't let you do this!
Burton White : She spoke?
Jeffrey Anderson : She spoke!
Montana Moorehead : Sudden speech, the last stages of brain fever! She can blow up any moment!
Lori Craven : I can always speak! Mother...
Montana Moorehead : She's MY mother!
Celeste Talbert : MONTANA, SHUT UP!
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Burton White : When the soup lady arrives, something inside of you *snaps*. Something mental.
Lori Craven : A crack-up.
Burton White : Exactly! Exactly. It's all gotten to you. The grinding poverty. The deprivation. The peeing in the streets.
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Lori Craven : It's really big!
Burton White : Well, um, it looks smaller on the screen.
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Lori Craven : This place is crawling with subplots.