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Dolores Claiborne (1995) More at IMDbPro »

Dolores Claiborne: If you say you're sorry one more time, I'll K I C K your butt up so high you'll look like a hunchback.

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Dolores Claiborne: It was just a bad patch.
Selena St. George: I had a fucking nervous breakdown, mother!

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Dolores Claiborne: [to Joe] That is the last time you ever hit me! Next time, one of us is going to the bone yard.

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Dolores Claiborne: If you wanna know what kind of life a person had, just look at their hands.

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Selena St. George: [to her boss, Peter] So not only are you not fucking me now, you're fucking me.

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Dolores Claiborne: [to Selena, who is frantically taking pills] How is that going to help?
Selena St. George: Because in ten minutes, I'm gonna be fine.
Dolores Claiborne: Selena...
Selena St. George: JUST GIVE ME TEN MINUTES!

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Vera Donovan: [to Dolores, who is hanging her sheets to dry] Six pins, Dolores! Six pins, not five!

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Dolores Claiborne: Go ahead and take what you want. I ain't doin' any beauty pageants today.

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Dolores Claiborne: Now, you listen to me, Mr. Grand High Poobah of Upper Buttcrack, I'm just about half-past give a shit with your fun and games.

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Dolores Claiborne: I did not murder that bitch any more than I'm wearing a diamond tiara.

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Vera Donovan: Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

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Vera Donovan: It's a depressingly masculine world, Dolores.

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Vera Donovan: Don't you just love the Bosa Nova. I found them in New York and simply had to have them.
Vera Donovan: Sometimes Delores, an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend.

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Vera Donovan: Don't we have a hair across our ass this morning Delores Claiborne?

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Vera Donovan: Well, don't look to me, Dolores. All my money is tied up in cash.

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Dolores Claiborne: You must have boyfriends. Beautiful girl like you, smart and out in the world... You tellin' me there's nobody?
Selena St. George: I'm telling you there's a *lot* of nobodies.

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Dolores Claiborne: [sobbing] Why? Why'd you do this, Vera?
Vera Donovan: Because I hate the smell of being old.

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Const. Frank Stamshaw: Going on a morning walk?
Dolores Claiborne: No, I'm just packing the get-away boat, so I can make my great escape.

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Vera Donovan: I want my china pig!
Dolores Claiborne: Which one? There's only about two-hundred of 'em.

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[Vera is not letting Dolores change her soiled sheets]
Dolores Claiborne: Vera, are ya gonna sit there and maranade in it? Come on!

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Vera Donovan: [Vera is ringing a bell] Doloooress!...
Dolores Claiborne: Hells bells. Look who's up.

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Dolores Claiborne: We're gonna sit down and have ourselves a drink! And after we're done - after *I'm* done, you can run upstairs and take whichever one of them little pills makes you feel the best.

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Selena St. George: Eighteen years ago, my father drank a bottle of scotch and fell down a well. Detective Mackey didn't think it was an accident, which is... why we're here today.
Det. John Mackey: And what do you think, Selena?
Selena St. George: I think I owe you an apology. I called you a son of a bitch. You said you thought we were a lot alike, and you were right. We both spent the past 18 years prosecuting this woman. We came out here- I know I did- believing she was guilty. We forgot this case is about Vera Donovan. Not my father.
Det. John Mackey: And what if it wasn't an accident?
Selena St. George: Look. It's been 18 years. I don't know what this has done to you, but let me tell you, it's consumed me. I have lived with this every day of my life. Every day. I was wrong and I won't do it anymore. And if I can say that, my God, can't you?

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Vera Donovan: [Dolores is crying in front of Vera in the drawing room] I insist that all women who have hysterics in my drawing room call me by my Christian name.

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Selena St. George: [when leaving her mother] I'm sorry, Mother. Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has hold onto.

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Det. John Mackey: I'm sorry, but I think it's for the best if you got yourself some legal representation.
Dolores Claiborne: You're sorry, are you? Bet the last time you were sorry was when you needed to use the pay toilet and the string on your pet dime broke.

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Const. Frank Stamshaw: Selena, we'd like her to stay at her house for the next few days.
Dolores Claiborne: If I decide to make my grand escape to South America, I'll be sure to let you know first.

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Vera Donovan: Husbands die every day, Dolores. Why... one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here weeping. They die... and leave their wives their money. I should know, shouldn't I? Sometimes they're driving home from their mistress' aparment and their brakes suddenly fail.

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Kid on street: Look!
Kid on street: Hey Miss Claiborne!
Kid on street: Kill anyone else today?
Dolores Claiborne: Not just yet, when I change my mind I'll know exactly where to start

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Dolores Claiborne: If anyone is going to accuse me of killing my husband go right ahead and call me Dolores!

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