Imogene Quotes in Paper Moon (1973)
Imogene Quotes:
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[about Trixie Delight]
Addie Loggins: How come she had to leave that job back there?
Imogene: Cause the boss-man tried to make her put out for his friends, and she don't believe in puttin' out for free!
Addie Loggins: She put out much?
Imogene: Just like a gum machine. You drop some in and she'll put some out.
Addie Loggins: How much she charge?
Imogene: Most she can get. But, she always asks for five dollars.
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Addie Loggins: Imogene, what do you suppose Miss Trixie'd do if somebody offered her $25 to put out.
Imogene: Ooo Wee! You crazy? For that much money, that woman'd drop her pants down in the middle of the road!
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Addie Loggins: Why don't you quit?
Imogene: Quit! Now, how am I gonna quit? And what if I do quit, I ain't got no money to get home to Mama. And what if I do get home, they got hard times as it is. My Mama say, "You go work for that white lady, she'll take good care of you."
[Rolls her eyes]
Imogene: You wanna know what I think?
Addie Loggins: Yeah.
Imogene: You know the little white speck on top of chicken doo-doo?
Addie Loggins: Yeah.
Imogene: Well, that's the kind of white I think miss Trixie is. She's just like that little white speck on top of old chicken shit.
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Imogene: [of Miss Trixie] I tried to push her out of a window in Little Rock once.
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Addie Loggins: Where you from?
Imogene: Nowhere.
Addie Loggins: Well, you gotta be from somewhere.
Imogene: Down by Troy, I guess.
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Addie Loggins: She really do all that dancin'?
Imogene: Well, if you want to call it dancin'! All she do is wag her hips and shake her ole behind a little.
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Imogene: Mr. Mose, Miss Trixie don't feel so good. She says she gonna stay in bed today. She says she'll see you around supper time.
Moses Pray: She's sick? Sick in bed? I-I better get up there.
Imogene: Oh, she ain't real sick. Ain't nothin' to worry about. She's just havin' lady's time.
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Libby: What about your family?
Imogene: Uhhm, I grew up in the Atlantic City area, near the beach, so...
Libby: Then every day was like summer, right?
Imogene: No, every day was not like summer; every day was like being impaled with a blunt wooden object, over and over again.
Libby: Anyway...
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Imogene: Okay, were Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera the same person?
Lee: Yeah, they totally were.
Imogene: [rejoices] I knew it.
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