The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Sean Whalen: Roach
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Quotes
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Fool : [after Roach rescues him from "Daddy"] Thanks.
Roach : [smiles and nods]
Fool : [to Alice] He doesn't talk much, does he?
Alice : His tongue's cut out.
Roach : [opens his mouth and shows a severed stump]
Alice : Mommy caught him trying to call for help one day, and Daddy had to teach him to...
Fool : Speak no evil, right?
Alice : [nods]
Fool : Your father's one sick mother, you know that? Actually, your mother's one sick mother, too!
Alice : Shhh! You're speaking evil! They'd kill you if they heard a word you just said.
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Alice : Roach is my friend.
Fool : Roach? I'm Poindexter.
Roach : [tries to mumble his name]
Fool : Everybody calls me Fool.
Roach : Foo...?
Fool : You sure got the names, huh?
[notices Alice's basket of homemade dolls]
Fool : This Leroy? You did this? Why you make these?
Alice : To hold the souls of burglars when they died. Or salesmen, workmen, other people who saw too much.