Mommie Dearest (1981)
Diana Scarwid: Christina Crawford - Adult
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Quotes
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Joan Crawford : Why can't you give me the respect that I'm entitled to? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any stranger on the street?
Christina : Because I am NOT one of your FANS.
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Christina : There's a liquor store to the right.
Joan Crawford : I should've know you'd know where to find the boys and the booze.
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Joan Crawford : Why do you deliberately defy me?
Christina : Why did you tell her I got expelled?
Joan Crawford : Because you DID get expelled.
Christina : That... is a LIE.
Joan Crawford : [Smacking Christina hard across the face twice] You love it, don't you? YOU LOVE TO MAKE ME HIT YOU.
Barbara Bennett : Joan.
Joan Crawford : Barbara, PLEASE. PLEASE, Barbara. Leave us alone, Barbara. If you need anything, ask Carol Ann.
[laughs bitterly]
Joan Crawford : This is wonderful. THIS IS WONDERFUL. YOU. You deliberately embarrassed me in front of a REPORTER.
[clutches herself]
Joan Crawford : A REPORTER. I told you how important this to me, I TOLD YOU.
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Christopher : As usual, she has the last word.
Christina : Does she?
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Lawyer : [reading from Joan's will after her death] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina, for reasons which are well known to them.
Christopher : What reasons?
Christina : (laughing bitterly) Jesus Christ.
Christopher : As usual, she has the last word.
Christina : Does she? Does she?
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Joan Crawford : [Joan is pouring booze from her flask] Hey, you know where I got this from?
Christina : Uh uh.
Joan Crawford : BATISTA himself.
Christina : Yeah?
Joan Crawford : When I opened a plant outside Havana.
Christina : That's all they gave you?
Joan Crawford : That's it. Cheap bastards.
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Joan Crawford : Why do you deliberately defy me?
Christina Crawford : Why did you tell her I got expelled?
Joan Crawford : Because you DID get expelled?
Christina Crawford : That... is a lie.
Joan Crawford : *Smacks Christina across the face, then smacks her a second time*
Joan Crawford : You love it, don't you? YOU LOVE TO MAKE ME HIT YOU!
Barbara Bennett : Joan?
Joan Crawford : Barbara, please! Please, Barbara! Leave us alone, Barbara! If you need anything, ask Carol Anne.
Barbara Bennett : *Walks away*
Joan Crawford : Oh, this is wonderful. This is wonderful! YOU, YOU DELIBERATELY EMBARRASS ME IN FRONT OF A REPORTER! A reporter. I told how important THIS IS TO ME! I TOLD YOU!
Christina Crawford : Why did you adopt me?
Joan Crawford : What?
Christina Crawford : Why did you adopt me?
Joan Crawford : Because I wanted a child. Because I wanted someone to love.
Christina Crawford : Don't you act for me. I wanna know. Why did you adopt me?
Joan Crawford : Maybe I did it for a little extra publicity. Tina, that's not true! You know that's not true.
Christina Crawford : Maybe just a little bit true.
Christina Crawford : *Starts to walk away*
Joan Crawford : I don't know what to do with you. I don't know what to do with you.
Christina Crawford : WHY NOT?
Joan Crawford : I don't ask much from you, girl. Why can't you give me the respect that I'm ENTITLED TO? Why can't you treat me like I would be treated by any STRANGER ON THE STREET?
Christina Crawford : Because I am not one of your FANS!
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[Joan is passed out in her dressing room]
Christina Crawford : I came in and I found her like this. You think she needs an ambulance?
Carol Ann : She doesn't need an ambulance. She's drunk.
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Christina : How are you, Miss Bennett?
Barbara Bennett : God, call me Barbara. They're teaching you some fancy manners at Chadwick.
Joan Crawford : That's not ALL they've been teaching her.
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Christina : [in character as Antigone] Understand. The first word I ever heard out of any of you was that word, understand. There'll be time enough to understand when I'm old, if I ever am old. Oh, but not now.
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Christina : [Seeing Joan in her coffin] Oh Mommie. I always loved you so. It's over. The Pain. There's no more pain. You're free. Free. Oh Mommie...
[she starts to cry]
