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April 10, 2026
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"[addressing the fans camped out in front of her house on Oscar night] I would rather be here with you than anywhere else in the world. You, all of you here and everywhere, gave me this award tonight. And I accept it from you and only you. I love all of you. Now please forgive me, good night."
"Alice Nunn - Helga"
"Belita Moreno - Belinda Rosenberg"
"Margaret Fairchild - the orphanage's Mother Superior"
"NO... WIRE... HANGERS! What's wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you NO WIRE HANGERS, EVER?! I work and work 'til I'm half-dead, and I hear people say, "She's getting old." And what do I get? A daughter... who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her... as she cares about me! WHAT'S WIRE HANGERS DOING IN THIS CLOSET?! ANSWER ME! I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dishrag! You do! $300 dress on a wire hanger? We'll see how many you've got, if they're hidden somewhere! We'll see! We'll see! Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out! Out...out...out...out!!! You got any more? We're gonna see how many wire hangers you've got in your closet! [throws items out of Christina's closet onto the floor despite Christina's protests, and soon discovers a second dress on a wire hanger] A wi... wire hanger! WHY?! WHY?!!!! Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed! You live in the most beautiful house in Brentwood... [begins beating Christina with the hanger; Christina tells her to stop hurting her as she shrieks and bawls in pain] ...and you don't care if your clothes get stretched out from wire hangers?! And your room looks like some $2-a-week furnished room in some two-bit back street town in Oklahoma! Get up! Clean up this mess!"
"Carolyn Coates - Mother Superior of Flintridge Sacred Heart"
"Xander Berkeley - Christopher Crawford"
"Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Chadwick"
"Jocelyn Brando - Barbara Bennett"
"Michael Edwards - Ted Gelber"
"Harry Goz - Alfred Steele"
"Rutanya Alda - Carol Ann"
"Howard Da silva - Louis B. Mayer"
"Steve Forrest - Greg Savitt"
"Diana Scarwid - Christina Crawford"
"Faye Dunaway - Joan Crawford"
"One thing is certain: You'll never look at a wire hanger the same way again!"
"Faye Dunaway is Joan Crawford, a star...a legend...and a mother...The illusion of perfection."
"The greatest role of her life...was her life."
"Meet the biggest MOTHER of them all!"
"The meanest mother of them all..."
"To my darling Christina, with love...Mommie Dearest"
"[in tears, after the "wire hangers"/bathroom cleaning incident] Jesus Christ!"
"Adopted children are luckiest because they were chosen."
"[lecturing her baby dolls after making Joan mad] You were very, very bad to wake Mommie up like that. VERY naughty. I told you, Mommie has to be beautiful today. This afternoon, she has to see MISTER MAYER. Today is so important. You are thoughtless and selfish. You must learn to think about other people. You are bad, bad spoiled children."
"[about Christina's refusal to eat her meat] WHY must EVERYTHING be a CONTEST?!"
"[yelling at her children for making noise when she is trying to take a nap] Christina, Christopher! DAMMIT!!!"
"You're a lousy substitute for someone who really cares."
"TINA! Bring me the axe!"
"[addressing the men in the Pepsi boardroom] DON'T FUCK WITH ME FELLAS! This ain't my first time at the rodeo. You forget the press that I delivered to Pepsi was MY POWER. I can use it any way I want. It's a sword... that cuts both ways."
"[singing] Oh where, oh where has my little Jake gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?"
"Nick Chinlund β Detective Tim"
"Eva Mendes β Sara"
"Charlotte Ayanna β Lisa Hoyt"
"Macy Gray β "Sandman"'s wife"
"Snoop Dogg β Blue"
"Dr. Dre β Detective Paul"
"Cliff Curtis β "Smiley""
"Raymond J. Barry β Captain Lou Jacobs"
"Harris Yulin β Detective Doug Rosselli"
"Tom Berenger β Stan Gursky"
"Scott Glenn β Roger"
"Ethan Hawke β Jake Hoyt"
"Denzel Washington β Detective Alonzo Harris"
"Smells like bacon in this muthafucka! What I look like, a sucka to you, nigga?! Fuck you, rookie! [Flees in wheelchair]"
"Hey pig, you ever had your shit pushed in? Your shit pushed in. Simple question."
"Alonzo, he's a hothead. Last week in Vegas some Russian starts talking shit and Alonzo he just snapped. Beat his ass to death. Turns out that Russian is a somebody and now Alonzo, he's into the Russians for a million."
"Three of a kind beats two pair, you fucking dumb truck."
"[Jake leaves with Alonzo's pay-off for the Russian mob] What? Oh, no, you didn't. Wait a minute, no, you didn't! Aye, aye, Jake! Hey! Jake! Jake! Jake, come back here! Jake! You disloyal fool-ass bitch-made-punk. Jake! I need my money! Jake! [to the neighbourhood residents who turned on him, tired of his abuse] Awwww, you motherfuckers. [chuckles] Okay. All right. I'm putting cases on all of you bitches! Huh? You think you can do this shit? Jake! You think you can do this to me?! You motherfuckers will be playin' basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you! SHU program, nigga! 23 hour lockdown! I'm the man up in this piece! You'll never see the light of-- Who the fuck do you think you fuckin' with?! I'm the police! I run shit here! You just live here! Yeah, that's right, you better walk away! Go on and walk away, 'cause I'm gonna burn this motherfucker down! King Kong ain't got shit on me! That's right, that's right. Shit, I don't fuck. I'm winnin' anyway. I'm winnin'. I'm winnin' any motherfuckin' way, I can't lose. Shit, you can shoot me, but you can't kill me. [laughing to himself] Shit! Oh, what a day! What a motherfucking day!"
"Shit gets deeper... You get the picture?"