Imogene Quotes in Paper Moon (1973)

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Imogene Quotes:

  • [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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Imogene: [of Miss Trixie] I tried to push her out of a window in Little Rock once.

  • Addie Loggins: Where you from?

    Imogene: Nowhere.

    Addie Loggins: Well, you gotta be from somewhere.

    Imogene: Down by Troy, I guess.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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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