Pretty Baby (1978)

Brooke Shields: Violet

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• Bellocq : Her father unknown, and her mother deserted the child.

  Violet : My mother's name was Hildegarde. Hildegarde Marr. M-A-R-R.

  Priest : And she was Caucasian, or other?

  Violet : She was a whore, Father.

• [said to Bellocq twice] 

  Violet : I love you once. I love you twice. I love you more than beans and rice!

• Frieda : Do not forget, this guy is buying a virgin, so she's got to act it right. You've got to give him the idea that you don't know nothing. It should be like a rape.

  Josephine : You don't know. Could be a different kind of guy. Someone that wants you to act like she wants it.

  Frieda : The main thing is to whimper and cry when he starts, but then you've got to act like it feels good.

  Violet : I know what to do. Leave me alone.

  Hattie : Well, don't act like you know it all. You won't even get a tip that way.

  Fanny : Violet, you should touch him down there, you know, like it's accidental.

  Violet : I know, I know all that.

• Violet : Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life.

  Bellocq : Perhaps Madame Nell is imagining she knows more than she does. Do you think she's having fun?

  Violet : She's as happy as anybody. Are the afraid you'll get the little casino? The clap?

  Bellocq : No.

  Violet : Well, why, then?

  Bellocq : Do I ask you questions? I don't have to explain myself to a child.

  Violet : I am not a child!

• Nell : Sold to the man with the four hundred dollars cash.

  Frieda : [to Violet]  Do not give him any argument.

  Violet's First Customer : Do you want some whiskey?

  [He hands Violet a glass of whiskey. She drinks it all] 

  Violet's First Customer : Well, Jesus, I didn't mean the whole damn thing.

  Violet : I'm glad it's you.

  Violet's First Customer : Why are you glad it's me?

  Violet : Well, you look nice, and you have a nice chest. I can feel the steam inside me right through my dress.

• Bellocq : Leave me alone.

  Violet : You hate me.

  Bellocq : I have no time for hate or love.

• Violet : You think of me as a child.

• Violet : I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans and rice.

  [they kiss, and she strokes his face] 

  Violet : I'm gonna make you so happy. You're just my kinda man, you really are. I'm really good, you know, cheri.

  Bellocq : [flies up]  Don't talk to me like that, please. Don't talk like a whore!

  Violet : Well, what do you want me to say? I feel something inside me, so I say it. And when you go away, it hurts me. Right here.

  [clutches her chest] 

  Bellocq : You're only hungry, pet

  Violet : And what's wrong with whores, anyhow? I thought you liked us.

  [he doesn't answer, so she leans in close] 

  Violet : Everybody says I'm pretty, and getting to fill out soon. And all the other men like me. Don't you like me?

  [gets hugged and kissed] 

• Bellocq : Why are you crying?

  Violet : [with irony]  With joy. And to amuse myself.

  [walks in] 

  Bellocq : You wanna come with me?

  Violet : No!

• Violet : Why did you buy me a doll?

  Bellocq : Every child should have a doll.

  Violet : I'm a child to you?