Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)

Allison Janney: Loretta

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Quotes 

• Amber Atkins : Loretta, never have kids.

  Loretta : Oh, honey, God bless ya for thinking I still could.

• Amber Atkins : My mom never hid the fact that my dad chose his career over us. What was it she always said?

  Loretta : Once a carnie, always a carnie.

  Amber Atkins : Mom still cries every time she sees a tilt-a-whirl or a fat lady in a tube top.

• Loretta : Why do I think Becky'll win? You're talking about the richest family in a small town. It's front page news when one of them takes a shit.

• Loretta : Say, you boys been to the Leemans'?

  Annette Atkins : Shut it, Loretta.

  Loretta : If ya have, you got all the pictures of the winner you need.

  Annette Atkins : [giving her hair a yank]  Shut up, Loretta.

  Loretta : Let's just say who should win, who deserves to win, is Amber.

  Annette Atkins : Who don't you just pin a big old target on your ass?

  Loretta : She's the prettiest, ya know. Best damn tapper. The most smartest.

  Annette Atkins : Most smartest? Oh, that's great, you're real educated. Most smartest! Get a picture of that, most smartest!

  Loretta : Most smartest.

• Loretta : What is wrong with you?

  Amber Atkins : I don't know. I just didn't wanna win like this.

  Loretta : You stop right there. You are a good person. Good things happen to good people.

  Amber Atkins : Really?

  Loretta : No. It's pure bullshit, sweetie. You're lucky as hell, so you might as well enjoy it.

  Amber Atkins : Okay.

  Loretta : Do you guys want some shots? I'm buyin'!

• Candy Striper : Hello, Miss Sad Pants, and her friend, Serious Sally! How about a nice cool mint to help turn those frowns upside down?

  Loretta : Do you think a nice cool mint would help if I shoved your head up your ass?

• Loretta : Are we on 'Cops' again?

• Amber Atkins : [Running onto the scene of her and her mom's blown up trailer home]  Mom? MOM?

  Fireman : Whoa, whoa, whoa... you family?

  Loretta : No, she's just yelling, "Mom, mom," because she has Tourettes! She's Annette's kid, dipshit.

• Amber Atkins : [as Annette is being driven away in an ambulance]  Mom! I'll be right behind you in the hearse!

  Loretta : Don't let that worry you, Annette!

• Gladys Leeman : [wearing her old pageant outfit]  And can you believe it, they still fit!

  Loretta : She had a big ass then, she's got a big ass now.

• Loretta : Can one of you boys give me a ride home?

  Annette Atkins : Don't fall for it. She lives two trailers down.

  Loretta : So? Be real easy.

  Annette Atkins : [pushing her out the door]  Go on home, Loretta. Come on. Go on, go on the party's over.

• Amber Atkins : [shaken after seeing her mom in the hospital]  Ummm. I'm quitting the pagent.

  Loretta : [grabbing and shaking Amber]  You're WHAT?

  Amber Atkins : I'm quitting the...

  Loretta : I heard you! I was just trying to get you to change your mind. Amber, the woman clung to your tap shoes while she was flying through the air like a goddamn lawn dart!

• Annette Atkins : I wish my mom was here.

  Loretta : You can wave Hi, Annette you hear that?

  [Amber waves at the camera] 

  Amber Atkins : Hi, Monkey.

  [Annette waves up to the TV] 

  Loretta : I got some

  [she starts laughing] 

  Amber Atkins : [Annette laughs again and sticks her thumb up at the TV] 

• [all the contestants are vomiting] 

  Loretta : [exiting hotel room with her lover]  Did they hear us?

• Female Reporter #2 : Amber, how do you feel?

  Amber Atkins : Well, I feel like I need to take a shower.

  [everyone laughs] 

  Female Reporter #2 : Honey, is this the best day of your life?

  Amber Atkins : Yeah... I wish my mom was here, though.

  Loretta : You can wave hi, say hi to her!

  Amber Atkins : Hi mom!

  Loretta : Hey!

  [they both wave to the camera] 

  Annette Atkins : [sitting in her hospital room]  Hi, monkey!

  Loretta : I got some!

• Loretta : [referencing a pageant dress]  Your ma did want you to have this, though, since your other one got toasted an all.

  Amber Atkins : Oh, my God! It's just like Diane Sawyer's!

  Loretta : Yah?

  Amber Atkins : Oh! Of course it's not a size 10. Diane was little hippy then.

  Loretta : Not our girl.

  Amber Atkins : Oh, no.

• Voice of Documentarian : What makes you so sure that Becky's gonna win?

  Loretta : Why do I think she'll win? You're talking about-

  [to Annette] 

  Loretta : Ow, don't pinch! You're talking about the most famous family in Mount Rose. Its front page news when one of them takes a shit!

• Loretta : [to documentary film crew]  You guys want some shots? I'm buyin'!