Helen Jordan Quotes in Happiness (1998)

Helen Jordan: [picks up phone] Hello?

Allen: I know who you are and you are nothing. You think you are fucking something, but you are fucking nothing. You are empty. You are a zero. You are a black hole, and I'm gonna fuck you so bad you'll be coming out of your ears.

[slams down phone, pants for air]

Helen Jordan: I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.

Joy Jordan: But I'm not laughing.

Helen Jordan: Y'know, people are always putting New Jersey down. None of my friends can believe I live here. But that's because they don't get it: I'm living in a state of irony.

Helen Jordan: It's just I'm... I'm so tired of being admired all the time. All these men I mean... they're all beautiful, artistic minds, great sex, the whole package, but hollow, you know what I mean? I feel nobody's really honest with me. Nobody wants me for me.

Helen Jordan: Anyway, so the police came and looked in her freezer and found baggies filled with the doorman's genitals.

Mona: I use baggies.

Joy Jordan: Me too.

Helen Jordan: Everyone uses baggies, that's why we can all relate to this crime. Don't you see?

Helen Jordan: If only I had been raped as a child! *Then* I would know authenticity!

Helen Jordan: I want you to fuck me.

Allen: I don't think I can do that.

Helen Jordan: I've had you on auto-redial all night.