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Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, and Emma Stone in The Help (2011)

Bryce Dallas Howard: Hilly Holbrook

The Help

Bryce Dallas Howard credited as playing...

Hilly Holbrook

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  • Minny Jackson: Eat my shit.
  • Hilly Holbrook: What'd you say?
  • Minny Jackson: I said eat... my... shit.
  • Hilly Holbrook: Have you lost your mind?
  • Minny Jackson: No, ma'am, but you is about to. 'Cause you just did.
  • Hilly Holbrook: Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.
  • Aibileen Clark: I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.
  • Hilly Holbrook: Nobody will believe what you wrote!
  • Aibileen Clark: I don't know. I been told I'm a pretty good writer, already sold a lot of books!
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: What the hell? What are you doing here?
  • [Hilly throws her cigarette at Skeeter]
  • Hilly Holbrook: I contacted my lawyer. Hibby Goodman? He is the best libel attorney in the state. Oh, Missy, you are going to jail!
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: You can't prove anything!
  • Hilly Holbrook: Oh, I 100% know you wrote it, 'cause nobody in this town is as tacky as you!
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: [Pokes Hilly] You don't know anything, Hilly!
  • Hilly Holbrook: [Shoves Skeeter] Oh, I don't, do I? You tell Aibileen the next time she wants to write about my good friend Elizabeth... Hm? Remember her? Had you in her wedding?... Let's just say Aibileen should have been a bit smarter before writing about that L-shaped scratch in poor Elizabeth's dining table.
  • [takes off her sunglasses]
  • Hilly Holbrook: And that nigger Minny... do I have plans for her.
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Careful, Hilly. That's chapter 12.
  • [Hilly gasps]
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Don't give yourself away now.
  • Hilly Holbrook: That was not me!
  • Hilly Holbrook: [check from Celia Foote] Pay to the order of: Two-Slice Hilly, $200.00.
  • [tears it up]
  • Hilly Holbrook: They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative.
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: The what?
  • Hilly Holbrook: A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
  • Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
  • Hilly Holbrook: I specifically said, "Drop old *coats* at my house", not *commodes*!
  • Hilly Holbrook: [about the pie] What do you put in here that makes it taste so good?
  • Minny Jackson: That good vanilla from Mexico and something else real special.
  • Hilly Holbrook: Minny? Minny, are you in there?
  • Minny Jackson: Yes, ma'am.
  • Hilly Holbrook: And just what are you doing?
  • [Minny flushes the toilet]
  • Hilly Holbrook: [shouting] Get off my toilet! You are fired, Minny Jackson!
  • [Minny leaves the house walking in the rain]
  • Hilly Holbrook: Go on!

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