Lorraine Schleine Quotes in Uptown Girls (2003)

Lorraine Schleine: Fruit punch? Why don't you just drink cyanide? At least it's quick.

Molly Gunn: [Takes a big sip from her can] Damn!

[she throws it to the ground]

Molly Gunn: The last time I saw my mom and dad, I was eight going on nine... eight years, six months, and three days... almost as old as you are. They were going on tour and leaving me behind for the first time, because they didn't want me missing any more school, and they came to my room to say goodbye and I wouldn't open the door, so they left. I fell asleep and then the next thing I know, my nanny was waking me up in the middle of the night telling me their plane had crashed.

Lorraine Schleine: You're lucky... that you were mad. See, when you're mad you don't miss people and if you stay mad, it's like you never knew them at all... that way you don't have to feel sucky about it... You were lucky...

Molly Gunn: I wasn't mad, I was confused... everyone was talking, talking, talking at me and I couldn't understand a word they were saying, and then their voices became a blur and soon I couldn't even recognize their faces; they were like these blobs and they started to grow fangs and their eyes became green and I knew I had to run away. So I packed my knapsack, got on the train, and looked up at the map and decided I wanted to live on Coney Island. I thought it would be... you know... a real island. That I thought I could hide there like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin, but imagine my surprise... The teacups were the only ride they would let me on by myself, so I got on it and I started spinning around and 'round and 'round. But I feel like I am still there... spinning 'round and 'round and 'round... and the ride won't stop... You were right, Ray, I am scared. But you're scared too. You're scared as I am and I thought that maybe if we could go together...

Molly Gunn: [Having tea in Ray's room] You're supposed to put the cream in before the sugar.

Lorraine Schleine: I'm not having cream. I can't gain weight.

Molly Gunn: Isn't doing the dishes what the maid is supposed to be for?

Lorraine Schleine: She doesn't know how to dry without leaving spots.

Molly Gunn: You don't know how to dry without destroying the environment! For every roll of paper towels you waste, a tree in the rain forest dies.

Lorraine Schleine: I'm gonna die of botulism from the germs on that gunky towel, you tree-loving hippie.

Lorraine Schleine: [to Molly, about eating hamburgers] I'm not the one who's gonna get mad cow disease and go nuts, though you don't seem to have a brain to fry in the first place.

Molly Gunn: Kid, have you ever been to a shrink?

Lorraine Schleine: Since I was three.