Melanie Quotes in Teeth (2007)

Melanie: [after having anal sex] You know, I do have a perfectly good pussy.

Brad: Oh I'm sure you do.

Melanie: Well, I do and other boys like it just fine.

Brad: Well fuck them then.

Brad: I think she bit it.

Melanie: She who?

Brad: Dawn.

Melanie: A baby bit into your finger?

Melanie: What is wrong with you?

Brad: You know what? You look a lot better with a dick in your mouth.

Melanie: Fucking bastard!

Melanie: There's apple, bubble gum, and Tandoori. I know it sounds gross, but have two of them and you won't feel your face.

Melanie: [to the three women who Connor broke up with on a conference call] Don't be sad, you whiny bitches.

[after Allie swallows a quarter]

Grandpa: Relax. Kids swallow quarters all the time.

Melanie: Really?

Grandpa: Sure. If she craps out two dimes and a nickel, then you can start worrying.

Melanie: I only wanted to warn you that Sammy can get into trouble faster than you can make most women smile.

[Melanie dials her cell phone]

Jack Taylor: Hello?

Melanie: Hi, it's me.

Jack Taylor: Me who?

Melanie: You have the kids?

Jack Taylor: What kids?

Melanie: [stands, alarmed] You didn't pick up the kids?

[Sammy and Maggie both yell "Hi" into the phone along with Jack]

Jack Taylor: Oh, you mean those kids.

Jack: You know what my mother used to say to me?

Melanie: Gee, no, what?

Jack: Love your guy like a little boy and he'll grow into a man.

Melanie: So she knew back then that you were gay?

Melanie: You MUST be Kristen's ex-husband?

Jack: Why do you say that?

Melanie: [pointing to Maggie] Well, that's Kristen's daughter...

Jack: What would you do if I kissed you right now?

Melanie: You wouldn't kiss me.

Jack: But what would you do if i did?

Melanie: Do you wanna kiss me right now?

Jack: I wouldn't've mentioned it if didn't.

[Phone rings]

Jack: What?

Melanie: I forgot to tell you that Sammy is allergic to shellfish and dander. And also, he's not allowed to watch commercial TV. And no matter what he says, he has to hold your hand when he crosses the street. Oh, and also, if you go to the playground, I'd like you to check the sandbox first, because you never know what people throw in there. And, also... OK. Bye.

Jack: Fine.

Melanie: Fine.

Jack Taylor: [curtly] My attitude is derived from your attitude.

Melanie: "Derived", you must be a writer.

Melanie: [on the phone while he can hear her] If I ever act interested in another man again, would you please shoot me?

Jack Taylor: [on the phone while she can hear him] A real superwoman. Can't open her door, won't shut her mouth.

Melanie: Excuse me, are you talking about me?

Jack Taylor: The first lady. We're thinking about doing a piece on her.

Melanie: If you don't want your balls juggled, don't throw them in my face.

Melanie: Men like you have made me the woman I am.

Jack Taylor: All the women I know like you have made me think all women are like you.

Melanie: Your Peter Pan complex is so 90s.

Jack: What Peter Pan complex?

Melanie: The one you're so proud of.

Jack: Do you have any friends?

Melanie: I don't have time for friends.

Jack: That's because of your Captain Hook complex.

Melanie: Look, I just called...

Jack Taylor: You just called to check up on me, because you don't really trust me... Sammy, no! Put the gun down!

[Melanie laughs]

Jack Taylor: ...and you only asked me to watch Sammy out of sheer desperation. Part of you would feel safer leaving Sammy at the 9th Street Drop-in Center, *with* LSD, isn't that true?

Melanie: No, that is not true. I just called to warn you that Sammy can get in trouble faster than you can make most women smile. Just be careful, okay?

Jack Taylor: I won't let him out of my sight... hey, Sammy! Guns aren't toys!

[into phone]

Jack Taylor: It's not loaded.

Melanie: Goodbye.

Melanie: [on the phone] ... So he went down on me and I came in like one second, haha...

Joel: Good morning Melanie.

Melanie: Oh my boss is here, I'll call you later. Bye dad.

Pina: [after discussing Nino's past with Angelo] Now can we please change the subject?

Mélanie: Ok. But if he ever asks you to strap on a dildo...

Pina: [giggling] Stop it!

Mélanie: Call me. I have quite a collection.

Alan: I don't know how you could come here every day.

Melanie: It's easy. I go to... I get up in the morning. I go to work. That's it.

Alan: So do I. That's it.

Melanie: No, what you do isn't work. It's...

Alan: Well, it pays my bills - and sometimes yours.

Ben: What do we look like? Criminals?

Melanie: Nah. Well, looks can be deceiving.

Ben: That's precisely why we're so successful.

Melanie: You've got to be kidding me.

Alan: Says the girl who's wearing a waffle.

Melanie: Hey, Marty.

Marty: [to his buddy] This is it.

Melanie: What can I get you?

Marty: A side of you.

[shows her a ring]

Robert Graysmith: [arriving to their date] How late am I?

[he knocks over a drink]

Melanie: Just a few minutes really. I just got here myself.

Robert Graysmith: Traffic was bumper to bumper. I was at the gun range.

Melanie: Glynis said you were a cartoonist.

Robert Graysmith: Oh,yeah.

Melanie: What were you doing at the gun range?

Robert Graysmith: Reading.

[Melanie and Louis are fighting over a bag of Ordell's money]

Louis: Gimme the bag...

Melanie: Watch it dipshit, you wanna rip the fucking bag.

Louis: Gimme that bag before I knock you out and take it.

Melanie: Okay take it. Jesus, what's wrong with you?

Louis: I'm carrying it.

Melanie: Okay, you got it. Just take a chill pill for Christ's sake.

Louis: Fuck you and your chill pill!

Ordell Robbie: Goddamn girl, you gettin' high already? It's just 2 o'clock!

Melanie: [chuckling] It's that late?

Ordell Robbie: You know you smoke too much of that shit, that shit gonna rob you of your own ambition.

Melanie: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV...

Ordell Robbie: Oh, ya'll a couple Cheech and Chongs, huh?

[phone rings]

Ordell Robbie: Well don't get up, I got it.

Jackie Brown: Melanie?

Melanie: Jackie?

Jackie Brown: Hey, girl, what's up?

Melanie: Hey, are you getting that suit?

Jackie Brown: Yeah. You like it?

Melanie: It looks really good on you.

Jackie Brown: You got something for me?

Melanie: You betcha.

Jackie Brown: I put a cherry on top. Booh-yah! What the fuck did Ordell ever do for us, huh?

Melanie: Thanks.

[Louis has forgotten where he parked]

Melanie: Jesus, but if you two are not the biggest pair of fuck-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No wonder you went to jail.

[Louis and Melanie are looking at a picture]

Melanie: That's Japan.

Louis: Uh, looks like... I can... It shows...

Melanie: Wanna fuck?

Louis: Yeah.

[three minutes later]

Melanie: That was fun.

Louis: Yeah, that hit the spot.

Melanie: Now, we can catch up.

Louis: Yeah.

[heavy breathing]

Louis: Got a beer?

Melanie: Sure. In the fridge.

Louis: Hey, we gotta go! We're late! Come on, Mel! We gotta go! Let's go!

Melanie: Hey, kiss my ass, fuck wad!

Louis: Hey, keep your fucking mouth shut, all right? I mean it not one fucking word!

Melanie: Okay, Louis...

[Louis pulls a gun and shoots Melanie twice]

Louis: [exhales smoke, heavy coughing]

Melanie: You ok?

Louis: Just... gettin' old.

[continues coughing]

Louis: Seems I can't smoke all that now without coughing.

Melanie: Coughing's good! It opens up the capillaries. You know, when you cough you're pulling in air, or in this case - smoke, into parts of the lungs that don't normally get used. So, coughing's good, it gets you higher.

Ordell Robbie: Definitely know a lot about that! Look here Louis, I got to run out for a little while so uh, if you like gettin high so much, why don't you hang out here with Mel' n' watch a little TV.

Louis: Way ahead of ya.

Ordell Robbie: See I get high later on when I come back, see I get high at NIGHT, when I get through with all my business.

Melanie: When did you get ouf of jail?

Louis: Four days ago.

Melanie: Where at?

Louis: Susanville.

Melanie: How long?

Louis: Two months shy of four years.

Melanie: Four years?

Louis: Uh huh.

Melanie: What for?

Louis: Bank robbery.

Melanie: Really? Shit, I'm impressed.

Melanie: [after sniffing glue] I'm flyin', man! I'm flyin'!

Helen Justineau: [Melanie stares at a cat poster] Do you want a cat?

Melanie: [as blood still drips from her face] I already had one.

Melanie: Pretend to be scared of me.

Sgt. Eddie Parks: [Incredulous] Pretend?

Melanie: We're alive?

Dr. Caroline Caldwell: Yes. You're alive.

Melanie: Then why should it be us who die for you?

Sgt. Eddie Parks: [Seeing Melanie cock a pistol and check the chamber] Where did you learn that?

Melanie: I watched you.

Sgt. Eddie Parks: Of course you did.

Melanie: [to Parks] If I had a box of bad things I'd put you in it and close the lid.

Sgt. Eddie Parks: [On discovering a devoured Kieran Gallagher] Dirty little FUCKERS.

Melanie: [On the feral Hungry kids] They just want to live. Everybody wants that.

Sgt. Eddie Parks: It's over. It's all over.

Melanie: It's not over. It's just not yours any more.

Melanie: [to Tracy] I love you and your brother more than anything in the world. I would die for you, but I won't leave you alone right now.

Melanie: [to Tracy] How do you explain $860 in your purse?

Tracy: What do you expect me to say, Mom? We jacked it, okay? It's not like your broke ass ever has any money to give me. Mom, when Brady went to the halfway house, what happened to our phone, our cable? You didn't even know how to pay the bills. It's no wonder Dad didn't want to be with you! You didn't even finish high school!

Melanie: We don't have extra stuff, but we're doing okay. You know we're doing okay. You don't have to steal.

Tracy: Mom, you knew what was going on! You're not that dumb, are you?

Melanie: [shouts] I didn't know it went that far!

Tracy: Mom, I have to go to the bathroom now!

Melanie: Can't you hold it a minute?

Tracy: That's how you get a bladder infection, you child abuser.

Melanie: That's dramatic.

Melanie: [When Evie walks on Melanie having a cigarette in her bedroom] Don't ever start smoking.

Evie: Is everything okay, Mel?

Melanie: Yeah.

[pauses]

Melanie: No. Evie, I'm sorry, but I think it's time for you to go home.

Evie: I can't go home. Brooke had a convention in Bakersfield. She said she sent you an e-mail.

Melanie: I guess I didn't check my E-mail.

[laughs nervously]

Evie: I'm sorry, Mel. I hope it's okay that I'm here.

Melanie: Well, I guess it's gonna have to be, isn't it?

Evie: Her boyfriend hits me, Mel.

[sits down on Melanie's bed and pulls her hair back to reveal a bruise on her neck]

Evie: He grabbed my throat and he threw me against his van.

Melanie: [gasps softly] Oh, Jesus.

[sits down beside Evie on the bed]

Melanie: Where's your mother, baby?

Evie: [sniffles] She - she passed away.

Melanie: I didn't have a mother when I was your age either. I know how hard it is. I do.

[she and Evie hug each other]

Brooke: We'll be moving up to Ojai so you won't be seeing Evie again. Ever. You're really cruel, Tracy. I mean, I'm sure you can be a sweet kid when you want to, but right now, you're a really bad influence. I mean, you cheat, you lie, you steal...

Tracy: [shouting in disbelief] Oh, my God! Are you kidding me? Where do you think I learned all this shit from?

[walks off into the kitchen]

Melanie: Tracy was playing Barbies before she met Evie.

[Melanie, Evie and Brooke follow Tracy into the kitchen]

Brooke: Did she teach you how to beat the crap out of her as well? I've seen the bruises.

Tracy: What the hell did you tell her, Evie?

Brooke: [turns to Evie] Come here. What about this?

[shows the scrape by Evie's hairline that Tracy accidentally made while the two girls were play-fighting]

Tracy: [shouts] What the fuck? We were just goofing.

Melanie: Tracy didn't hit her.

Evie: [starting to cry] Yes, she did.

Tracy: I don't believe this! She hit me too!

Brooke: [grabs Tracy's arm and struggles with her to pull back her sleeve] And look at this, Mel.

Tracy: Don't you dare! No! Please!

Melanie: Get your hands off her.

[Tracy starts to cry as the cuts on her arm are revealed when Brooke pulls down her sleeve]

Brooke: She cuts.

[Melanie looks stunned and horrified at the cuts on Tracy's arm]

Tracy: [crying] It's none of your business, you fucking Frankenstein!

Brooke: Oh, no, this child is my business, you little cunt.

Melanie: That's enough. You need to get out.

Brooke: [to Evie] Honey, come on.

[she and Evie slowly start to leave the house]

Melanie: [yelling] Get out!

Evie: [crying] Who would want to be in this shit hole anyway? It fucking stinks in here, Mel!

[after dying Cynthia's hair]

Melanie: If this gets you laid, you owe me double.

Melanie: [to Tracy] What the hell is that?

[Tracy doesn't answer her]

Melanie: I'm talking to you!

Tracy: [whispers] It's a belly-button ring.

Melanie: Speak up. I can't hear you.

Tracy: It's a belly button ring! How else can I say it? I don't speak no other languages! Oh. And do you want to know what that is?

[sticks her tongue out]

Tracy: That is a tongue ring.

Melanie: I want you here with me. You're my heart. I'll make it right.

Melanie: [tearing up the floor in her kitchen] Goddamn dollar-fifty-a-square-foot floor!

Melanie: [to Tracy] Have you been drinking?

Tracy: No!

Mason: She's always fucking drinking!

Brady: Oh, like you never have!

Melanie: Hey, hey, hey. Come on. You guys!

Brady: Hey, Kayla. What's going on?

[Kayla starts crying]

[first lines]

Melanie: New patient?

New Dental Patient: Yes, I was referred by my lawyer about veneers.

[big grin]

Melanie: You're a new patient, that's all I need to know. Fill this out so we know who to contact in case we loose you in the chair.

New Dental Patient: [speechless]

Melanie: That was a joke, sweetie, I was being funny.

[abruptly slides the window closed]

Melanie: He could still, many years from now, recall the scene in all its detail. The lock of hair she placed behind her ear. The way the washing label stuck out from the neck of her tanktop. The streetlights that went out as they passed Kevin Anderson's house. That strangely familiar smell of damp earth that he couldn't quite place.

Melanie: Rooming with you is kinda like having an anchor I didn't even know I needed.

Melanie: [Young Thomas enters the house in his oversized uniform] What are you wearing ? That's not Youth Movement!

Thomas: No - it's the People's Army. All able bodied men between sixteen and sixty have been conscripted.

Melanie: But you're only fourteen!

[Thomas shrugs passively, Melanie is alarmed]

Grandpa: [interupting] A couple of years makes no difference. You know yourself that all the sixteen year olds have gone already!

Thomas: [Young Thomas sees Melanie walking through the park. He runs from the football game to catch her up. She is reading an American comic book] What's that - can I see it ?

[she passes the comic to him, he flicks through the pages in awe]

Melanie: Hans Schaffer sent it to me. He swapped a pack of cigarettes for it with an American prisoner he caught.

Thomas: [flicking through the pages] This is fantastic! Can I borrow it ?

Melanie: [she takes the comic back] No, but you may have it - so long as you have something to swap for it!

[she walks off with a smile leaving Thomas standing]

Melanie: [to John] I don't want another one of your rational explanations, John. I know what I experienced, and I'm not crazy.

Caroline: C'mon. I'm not going alone.

Melanie: Hold up. It could be a trick. Let's make sure we're not walking into some sort of trap. Get back in here.

Isabella: Think about it. She kicked out the back window. She ran. She's not still around here.

Melanie: We don't know that.

Isabella: Well, pretend!

Melanie: Caroline.. Jamie needs our help. We need to worry about her right now. Not Stephanie.

Caroline: Stop acting like Stephanie's dead.

Melanie: I don't wanna do this, but maybe it's best if we just assume the worst. Okay, I need your help here.

[pause]

Melanie: Don't worry, Stef will be okay.

Caroline: Don't go and say stuff like that. That's being contradictory and it confuses me.

[After killing Jenny and her boyfriend]

Melanie: I love taking out the garbage!

Venice Dorian: Capiche?

Melanie: Bi-lingual whore destroying every marriage.

[first lines]

Melanie: Have we decided what we're going to do yet?

Dominik: Not yet. Who knows, maybe the fresh air will help.

Franklin: This is a vacation, right?

Dominik: More or less. Actually, it's a moral support weekend.

Harriet: Oh, I do hope I'm loved as much as Cleopatra.

Melanie: I shouldn't liked to be loved out loud like Cleopatra.

Harriet: I should! The louder the better. I want everyone to know about me and I want to be loved by hundreds of men.

Melanie: One person's love is enough for one person.

Harriet: Wouldn't you rather marry an American?

Melanie: I don't understand them.

Melanie: Can I help you?

Capt. John: Can anyone?

Harriet: Ten minutes ago, she wasn't born. And, tomorrow, we'll be used to her. And yesterday, we...

Valerie: Bother yesterday.

Melanie: This is today.

Harriet: And today. Here is the baby. The baby and us. The big river. The whole world and everything.