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Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby (1978)

Brooke Shields: Violet

Pretty Baby

Brooke Shields credited as playing...

Violet

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Quotes10

  • [said to Bellocq twice]
  • Violet: I love you once. I love you twice. I love you more than beans and rice!
  • Bellocq: Her father unknown, and her mother deserted the child.
  • Violet: My mother's name was Hildegarde. Hildegarde Marr. M-A-R-R.
  • Priest: And she was Caucasian, or other?
  • Violet: She was a whore, Father.
  • Frieda: Do not forget, this guy is buying a virgin, so she's got to act it right. You've got to give him the idea that you don't know nothing. It should be like a rape.
  • Josephine: You don't know. Could be a different kind of guy. Someone that wants you to act like she wants it.
  • Frieda: The main thing is to whimper and cry when he starts, but then you've got to act like it feels good.
  • Violet: I know what to do. Leave me alone.
  • Hattie: Well, don't act like you know it all. You won't even get a tip that way.
  • Fanny: Violet, you should touch him down there, you know, like it's accidental.
  • Violet: I know, I know all that.
  • Violet: Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life.
  • Bellocq: Perhaps Madame Nell is imagining she knows more than she does. Do you think she's having fun?
  • Violet: She's as happy as anybody. Are the afraid you'll get the little casino? The clap?
  • Bellocq: No.
  • Violet: Well, why, then?
  • Bellocq: Do I ask you questions? I don't have to explain myself to a child.
  • Violet: I am not a child!
  • Nell: Sold to the man with the four hundred dollars cash.
  • Frieda: [to Violet] Do not give him any argument.
  • Violet's First Customer: Do you want some whiskey?
  • [He hands Violet a glass of whiskey. She drinks it all]
  • Violet's First Customer: Well, Jesus, I didn't mean the whole damn thing.
  • Violet: I'm glad it's you.
  • Violet's First Customer: Why are you glad it's me?
  • Violet: Well, you look nice, and you have a nice chest. I can feel the steam inside me right through my dress.
  • Bellocq: Leave me alone.
  • Violet: You hate me.
  • Bellocq: I have no time for hate or love.
  • Violet: You think of me as a child.
  • Violet: I love you once, I love you twice, I love you more than beans and rice.
  • [they kiss, and she strokes his face]
  • Violet: I'm gonna make you so happy. You're just my kinda man, you really are. I'm really good, you know, cheri.
  • Bellocq: [flies up] Don't talk to me like that, please. Don't talk like a whore!
  • Violet: Well, what do you want me to say? I feel something inside me, so I say it. And when you go away, it hurts me. Right here.
  • [clutches her chest]
  • Bellocq: You're only hungry, pet
  • Violet: And what's wrong with whores, anyhow? I thought you liked us.
  • [he doesn't answer, so she leans in close]
  • Violet: Everybody says I'm pretty, and getting to fill out soon. And all the other men like me. Don't you like me?
  • [gets hugged and kissed]
  • Bellocq: Why are you crying?
  • Violet: [with irony] With joy. And to amuse myself.
  • [walks in]
  • Bellocq: You wanna come with me?
  • Violet: No!
  • Violet: Why did you buy me a doll?
  • Bellocq: Every child should have a doll.
  • Violet: I'm a child to you?

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