Kathy Quotes in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Kathy: I wanted vanilla twist.

Kathy: But, Dad, they're not really bad, they're just... stupid.

Kathy: [picks up a cake] Here's one thing I learned from the movies!

[Throws it at Don but hits Lina]

Don Lockwood: What's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?

Kathy Selden: I'm an actress...

Don Lockwood: Oh...

Kathy: ...on the stage.

Don Lockwood: Oh, on the stage, well I'd like to see you act, what are you in right now? I could brush up on my English, or bring along an interpreter, that is if they'd let in a *movie* actor.

Kathy Selden: I'm not in a play right now, but I will be. I'm going to New York...

Don Lockwood: Oh, you're going to New York and then some day we'll all hear of you, won't we? Kathy Selden as Juliet, as Lady Macbeth, as King Lear. You'll have to wear a beard for that one of course.

Kathy Selden: Laugh all you want, but at least the stage is a dignified profession.

Don Lockwood: [scoffing] Dignified profession.

Kathy: What do you have to be so conceited about? You're nothing but a shadow on film... just a shadow. You're not flesh and blood.

Don Lockwood: Oh, no?

[moves amorously towards her]

Kathy: Stop!

Don Lockwood: What can I do to you, I'm only a shadow.

Kathy: Are you sure it's all right? Being seen with me?

Don Lockwood: You mean lofty star with humble player?

Kathy: Not exactly, but for lunch don't you usually tear a pheasant with Miss Lamont?

Don Lockwood: Kathy, all the stories about Lina and me are sheer publicity.

Kathy: Oh? It certainly seems more than that. From all those columns in the newspapers and articles in the fan magazines...

Don Lockwood: You read the fan magazines?

Kathy: I pick them up at the beauty parlor or the dentist's office, just like anybody.

Don Lockwood: Really?

Kathy: Well... I buy four or five a month.

Don Lockwood: Four or five...

Kathy: But anyway, to get back to the point, you and Miss Lamont do achieve a certain intimacy in all your pictures...

Don Lockwood: Did you say *all* our pictures?

Kathy: I guess if I think about it I've seen eight or nine of them.

Don Lockwood: You know I remember someone saying, "If you've seen one you've seen 'em all".

Kathy: I said some awful things that night, didn't I?

Don Lockwood: No. I deserved them. But I must admit I was hurt by them. So hurt in fact that I haven't been able to think about anything but you ever since.

Don Lockwood: I'm no actor. I never was. Just a bunch of dumb show. I know that now.

Cosmo Brown: Well, at least you're taking it lying down.

Don Lockwood: No. No kidding, Cosmo. Did you ever see anything as ridiculous as me on that screen tonight?

Kathy: Yeah, how about Lina?

Don Lockwood: All right. I ran her a close second. Maybe it was a photo finish. I'm through, fellas.

Kathy: Don, you're not through!

Cosmo Brown: Why of course not. Why, with your looks and figure, you could drive an ice wagon or shine shoes!

Kathy: Block hats!

Cosmo Brown: Sell pencils!

Kathy: Dig ditches!

Cosmo Brown: Or worse still, go back to vaudeville.

Kathy: You keep away from me! Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me!

Don Lockwood: [chanting] Fear not, sweet lady! I will not molest you. I am but a humble jester, and you? You are to far above me!

[he gets out of the car and closes the door on his coat tails]

Don Lockwood: Farewell, Ethel Barrymore! I must tear myself from your side!

[Don tears his coat. Kathy guffaws as Don walks away]

Don Lockwood: Which of my pictures have you seen?

Kathy: I don't remember. I saw one once.

Don Lockwood: You saw one once?

Kathy: Yes, I think you were dueling and there was a girl - Lina Lamont. But I don't go to the movies much. If you've seen one you've seen them all.

Don Lockwood: Thank you.

Kathy: Oh, no offense. Movies are entertaining enough for the masses but the personalities on the screen just don't impress me. I mean they don't talk, they don't act, the just make a lot of dumb show. Well, you know

[demonstrates]

Kathy: like that.

Don Lockwood: You mean like what I do?

Kathy: Well, yes!

Kathy: A lot of magical things have happened since you walked through those doors.

Karen: Amen.

Kathy: My menstrual cycle started back up again. And I don't even have a uterus. I mean I have it... it's in a jar. It's actually in the room that you're staying in.

Alicia DeGasario: Hey Kathy. Have you been over to Brad's?

Kathy: Yeah, it's nice.

Alicia DeGasario: Weird huh? His family seems so normal. You'd never guess they belonged to one of those doomsday cults.

Kathy: A - Are you serious?

Kathy: I would think that the lucky few who have jobs would be bending over with gratitude. Are you bending Drew?

Kathy: You guys are brothers?

Mitch: Well, it's a long story...

Sam: My dad boned his mom.

Mitch: Okay, it's a short story.

Mitch: There's two kinds of people in this world: Those who get stomped on and those who do the stomping.

Kathy: Where'd you come up with that theory?

Mitch: That famous guy said it. What's his name? Uh... Oh, yeah: Jesus!

Mitch: [after finding out Kathy works at a car dealership] Are you a dirty car salesman?

Kathy: No, I'm a dirty accountant.

[Kathy enters the Dirty Work headquarters, where Mitch is deep in thought]

Kathy: [flirtatiously] What havoc are you planning to wreak now?

Mitch: Kathy! What are you doing here?

Kathy: Um, actually I was looking for you. I saw how you and your friend saved that woman's house.

[giggles]

Kathy: Guess it turns out you can use your powers for good as well as evil.

Kathy: So... Would you like to come in for some coffee?

Mitch: No no. Uh, I can't. I have to lift weights? What?

Kathy: So, where are you from?

Johnny: Around.

Kathy: Around?

Johnny: Yup-yup.

Kathy: And then I went straight to Nick's house. And I didn't touch it at Nick's house.

Tommy Winslow: Ha-hah!

Kathy: Shut up.

Kathy: People can be who they want to be, as long as they're willing to work

Kathy: I'll see you later.

Johnny: You're seeing me now.

Kathy: Oh, I'm seeing you now.

Kathy: What are you doing here?

Johnny: Yo, you axed me.

Nick: How about a drink?

Kathy: I'll have a Diet Coke.

Nick: Diet Coke? Kathy, Kathy... be serious.

[Nick takes a shot of hard liquor]

Kathy: Nick, you be serious. You're driving.

Nick: Kathy, I'm a big boy. I'm also a thirsty one.

Nick: What was that all about?

Kathy: Forget him, I already have.

Gordon: Who was that?

Kathy: It was this guy who gave me a ride home.

Kathy: So what's important to you?

Johnny: If you ain't true to yourself then you ain't true to nobody

Johnny: Live your life for someone else, you ain't living

Nick: What the hell is that?

Kathy: Don't ask me

Johnny: A'ight, so how long have you lived here?

Kathy: Um, all my life, why?

Johnny: What's it like?

Kathy: What do you mean 'what's it like?'

Johnny: You know, having parents and all that stuff... a brother... all that stuff, yo.

Kimberly Joyce: Kathy?

Kathy: Yes?

Kimberly Joyce: Kathy!

Kathy: Yes?

Kimberly Joyce: Do you fuck dogs? When you were fucking my dog, he was going like this -

[imitates a dog having an orgasm]

Kathy: Kimberly! Kimberly, would you PLEASE take your dog for a walk?

Kimberly Joyce: Oh, are you done fucking him?

Mr. Joyce: Oh, enough of that already, geez!

Kimberly Joyce: What? I saw her. her red nails were running through his chest hair like fire through a forest...

Kathy: That's actually kinda poetic...

Kathy: Who here wants to be an ad-man?

[several hands go up]

Emory Leeson: Who here wants to be a fire engine?

[everyone raises their hands, with several standing and commenting things like "Ooh, I do!" and "Me! Pick me!"]

Kathy: You may think phone service stinks since deregulation, but don't mess with us, because we're all you've got. In fact, if we fold, you'll have no damn phones. AT&T - we're tired of taking your crap!

Kathy: Pretty girls are breaking everybody's back.

Emory Leeson: But you're pretty. I mean, really pretty.

Kathy: Yes, but I don't have the problems normally associated with prettiness... because, when I was a child, I looked like Ed McMahon.

Kathy: Hold me. Please hold me.

Emory Leeson: I am holding you.

Kathy: I know, but it's a woman thing. I have to say it.

Kathy: She's probebly on her period

Kathy: [Todd has unexpectedly returned; he was supposed to be in Hawaii] Todd, what happened?

Todd: The Honolulu Airport was snowed in.

Selma: Cvalda.

Kathy: Why do you call me that?

Selma: It's like, someone whose...

Kathy: What?

Selma: I don't know, just big and happy.

Kathy: I am not that big. And happy, I don't know.

Selma: You just need someone to pull it out.

Kathy: You were right, Selma - listen to your heart!

Kathy: But he needs his mother, you know, alive, no matter where!

Selma: You don't understand! He needs his eyes!

Kathy: He needs his mother!

Selma: No!

Kathy: Yes! Alive!

Selma: NO!

Kathy: Listen to reason for once, Selma! Selma...

Selma: I listen to my heart...

[last lines]

Kathy: It's been two weeks since I lost him. I've been given my notice now. My first donation is in a month's time. I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I've lost since my childhood has washed out. I tell myself, if that were true, and I waited long enough, then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field, and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy. He'd wave and maybe call. I don't let the fantasy go beyond that. I can't let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I'm not sure about is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

Miss Emily: We didn't have The Gallery in order to look into your souls. We had The Gallery to see if you had souls at all. Do you understand?

Kathy: Yes.

Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.

Nurse: [Kathy has just discovered Ruth at the same donation clinic] Is that someone you know?

Kathy: Yeah. Actually, we grew up together.

Nurse: Oh.

Kathy: How is she?

Nurse: ...Were you close?

Kathy: We haven't seen each other now for almost ten years.

Nurse: Well, Ruth isn't as strong as we would hope, at this stage.

Kathy: She's done two donations?

Nurse: She has.

Kathy: ...You think she'll complete on the third?

Nurse: I think she wants to complete. And, as you know, when they want to complete, they usually do.

Boy at Party: Okay, Okay Kathy, tell me - what is your goal in life?

Kathy: [drinking sloppily, giggling] To get fucked up.

Boy at Party: Okay. So what are you right now?

Kathy: [takes another drink] Pretty fucked up.

[last lines]

Officer at End: Are you Kathy Nicolo?

Kathy: Yeah.

Officer at End: Is this your house?

Kathy: No, it's not my house.

Kathy: I miss my dad. He worked really hard for that house... It took him... thirty years to pay it off. And it took me eight months to fuck it up!

Lester: [at Kathy's car] So, how's the El Rancho?

Kathy: I'm not there anymore. I'm staying at the Bonneville now.

Lester: I don't know it.

Kathy: [dryly] You're looking at it.

Frank: Kathy? K, is that you?

Kathy: [on the phone with her brother Frank, She is very upset] Yeah.

Frank: Mom said you sounded strange on the phone. What's going on?

Kathy: I need help. I really need some help.

Frank: What's wrong?

Kathy: Do you think you could just come out here? Please?

Frank: K, I'm sorry. I just got a real shit storm here. We just got the new models in, there's inventory...

[to co-worker]

Frank: I'll be right there. Just give me a second here.

Kathy: I just feel lost, Frankie. You know? I just, um... I just feel lost.

Frank: Look, Ma and the aunts will be out there on the 18th. They can help you, bring you back, straighten you out. Okay? I'm sorry, K, but I gotta go. Okay?

Kathy: Okay... Yeah.

Frank: All right. Chin up, baby sister. I'll call you later.

Kathy: Okay. Hey, don't tell Mom, all right?

[clicks, dial tone]

Kathy: ...Okay, bye.

[Crying and whimpering in frustration over her inability to explain to her brother why she needs help]

Kathy: FUCK!

[talking with Nadi]

Kathy: I grew up in this house. It's the house that my father left to me and my brother when he died. The county evicted me from this house by mistake and your husband bought it and now, he won't sell it back for less than four times what he paid. Now, I don't want to argue with him. You know, I really don't. It's just that if this goes to court, it could take...

Nadi: [interrupting] They want to deport us?

Kathy: I don't know.

Nadi: You must see... they will kill us. They will shoot my childen.

[breaks down and crys]

Kathy: [comforting her] Hey, hey. You don't understand a word I'm saying, do you?

Nadi: Please, you are a very nice girl.

[grabs a notepad and pen]

Nadi: Please, you write for me everything. I want for to understand for discussing with my husband. OK?

Kathy: OK.

Kathy: I lived here, and you stole this house from me.

[first lines]

Officer at End: Are you Kathy Nicolo?

Kathy: Yeah.

Officer at End: Is this your house?

Kathy: THIS IS A STOLEN HOUSE!

Lester: Rough night, ha?

Kathy: Seems to be heading in that direction...

Behrani: [to Kathy] You think you can frighten me? You think you can frighten me with your stupid deputy coming here telling me lies?

[Grabs Kathy by the arm and frog-marches her down the path]

Behrani: What do you think I am? Tell me that. Am I stupid? You think I'm stupid?

Nadi: [Following them] Don't!

Behrani: In my country, you're not worthy to raise your eyes to me. You're nothing! And you can tell your deputy friend his superior officers know everything!

[Opens Kathy's car and shoves her inside the driver's seat, banging her head]

Behrani: You tell him that! This is our home!

Kathy: Please...

Behrani: OUR HOME!

Nadi: [In Farsi] Leave her alone! That's enough!

[In English]

Nadi: Please, stop! Please, to stop, Behrani!

[Kathy drives off. Massoud glares at Nadi]

Kathy: [Repeated line] This is MY house.

Carol: God says to Adam, "Adam, I have something for you, but it's gonna cost you an arm and a leg." Adam thinks for a moment, then decides, "What can you give me for a rib?"

Kathy: That's funny. Where'd you hear it?

Carol: From the Bible.

Kathy: You can stop staring. I'm not a ghost!

[after being attacked by an enormous alien mouth]

Kathy: What... the FUCK was THAT?

Kathy: Today we have a very special show for you. It's a full menu of recipes for revenge. We begin with a pig appetiser. Take one schoolyard bully. You know the one, he chased you into the alley behind the butcher's shop, and pushed you into a dumpster full of rotting meat. Let him ripen into a misogynistic jerk, stab quickly, and hang to bleed. Serve with a side of party-crasher entrails. Now we're on to the first course. A little something I like to call the Two Faces of Bitch. You remember that girl you met on the first day of work in your exiting new job? Do you remember how nice you thought she was? You thought she was your friend, but then she stole your ideas and took all the credit. She got a promotion and the fat girl got fired. Take this lying, manipulative hag, butterfly neatly with an axe, wipe your hands, and you're done! Second course, the heart of a whore. This one's a real rib sticker! And all you need is the slut who stole your first real boyfriend, just to prove that she could. She lured him away with her shameless seductions, then dumped him six weeks later when something better came along. Remove her still-beating heart and stuff it into her wide-open mouth. Garnish with her latest conquest, plate and serve. Of course, on this show, we always leave room for desert, because revenge should be sweet. Take one high school crush, who destroyed your feelings of self worth without batting an eye, turn the tables, and serve cold. Mmm! Doesn't that look yummy? Just follow my easy step, and you'll be greeting the New Year with that deep hunger inside of you satisfied... like never before.

Vincent Millett: [Millett knocks on the door of the office of Helene Griffin, the headmistriss] Can I have a word with you, Miss Griffin?

Helene Griffin: Not right now, if you don't mind, Professor Millett.

[she shuts the door in his face and turns to Kathy, a student in her office, who is upset that Millett dumped her]

Helene Griffin: Now, why didn't you tell me about this sooner?

Kathy: [crying] I thought it would go away.

Helene Griffin: You can't love a man like that. He's a self-centered ruthless man! You'd think he'd have more sense than to have an affair with one of his students.

Kathy: [sobbing] I thought he really liked me.

Helene Griffin: And I'll tell you what. His teaching days at this school are over. I am not going to allow that Professor Millett to use this school as a playground for his sexual exploits!

Kathy: Why do you have a bag full of tape and rope.

Ken: Because it's my tape and rope bag. What else would keep in there?

Patty Myers: When's your due date?

Kathy: Oh, 3 long weeks.

Patty Myers: [giggling] You'll make it.

Kathy: That's easy for you to say.

Patty Myers: Are you sure you want this book?

Kathy: It's about computers isn't it?

Patty Myers: It's a religious book about people who worship computers. One of the stock boys read it though, he said it was really scary.

David Michaels: Good, you have to scare some people just to get their attention. Should we allow these people to find themselves in the Tribulation period, scared to death? Or get their attention now while something can be done?

Patty Myers: Like what?

David Michaels: Like receiving Christ.

Kathy: I'll read the book, honey, but I'm like you, Patty, I just find all this prophecy stuff to be a little hard to believe.

David Michaels: You know, I'm afraid unless both you girls open up your minds, and your hearts, you're going to be in for a rude awakening.

Kathy: How'd you get that uniform?

David Michaels: Somewhere out there, ladies, lies a soldier in the mud, his only earthly possessions being his government issued underwear, and his RFD code in his right hand.

Leslie: Did you kill him?

David Michaels: I'm not sure. If I did, it was self defense.

David Michaels: The only benefit of being a believer these days is where we go if they win.

Kathy: What if one were not a believer?

David Michaels: My advice to that person would be stay alive as long as possible.

Kathy: Then you've got to get us out of here.

Kathy: But I went to church, I even taught Sunday school.

Leslie: I know. I worked with handicapped kids. And all that's alright, but when we say 'I', 'I did this' and 'I did that' like I did. It proves we left out the only thing that really matters.

Kathy: What's that?

David Michaels: Jesus Christ.

Leslie: That's right. You and I and millions of others like us tried to work our way to Heaven our way.

David Michaels: Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the Life, and no man cometh to the Father, but by Me."

Leslie: The Bible says it's a gift.

Kathy: What's a gift?

Leslie: Eternal life.

David Michaels: I'm curious, if you're not a believer, why haven't you taken the mark yet?

[Kathy hands him a book]

David Michaels: Computer Prophecies. Hmm, you uh, know anything about computers?

Kathy: Uh huh, I used to be a computer analyst, and there's a chapter in here called 'The day of the Beast'. It says that if a person takes the mark, that he is selling his soul to the devil, and he'll be tormented forever.

[Billy coughs]

Kathy: I won't take it, I'd rather die first.

David Michaels: Well, that could be any minute if we don't get out of here. That chief goon is mean enough to be Satan himself.

Kathy: Oh no, I'll help. You can always depend on the ol' spy fucker.

Joe Turner: I've got a plan. I don't know if it'll work or not, but I'll need your help.

Kathy: Have I ever denied you anything?

Kathy: You had bad dreams. Talked in your sleep.

Joe Turner: What did I say?

Kathy: Who's Janice? Well, was she a volunteer or a draftee like me?

Kathy: You're not entitled to personal questions! That gun gives you the right to rough me up; it doesn't give you the right to ask me...

Joe Turner: Wh- wh- Rough you up? Have I roughed you up?

Kathy: Yes! What are you doing in my house?

Joe Turner: Have I? Have I?

Kathy: Going through all my stuff? Force...

Joe Turner: Have I raped you?

Kathy: The night is young.

Kathy: You... you have a lot of very fine qualities. But...

Joe Turner: What fine qualities?

Kathy: You have good eyes. Not kind, but they don't lie, and they don't look away much, and they don't miss anything. I could use eyes like that.

Joe Turner: But you're overdue in Vermont. Is he a tough guy?

Kathy: He's pretty tough.

Joe Turner: What will he do?

Kathy: Understand, probably.

Joe Turner: Boy. That is tough.

Kathy: Sometimes I take a picture that isn't like me. But I took it so it is like me. It has to be. I put those pictures away.

Joe Turner: I'd like to see those pictures.

Kathy: We don't know each other that well.

Joe Turner: Do you know anybody that well?

Kathy: I don't think I want to know you very well. I don't think you're going to live much longer.

Joe Turner: I may surprise you.

Kathy: I don't think you'll live much longer.

Joe Turner: I may surprise you.

Joe Turner: I need your car.

Kathy: It's called grand theft. You don't want to get in trouble with the police.