Whip It (2009)

Marcia Gay Harden: Brooke Cavendar

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• Brooke Cavendar : What do you think, that the world thinks of those girls with all their tattoos? Do you think they have an easy time finding a job? Or getting a loan application? Or going to a decent college?

  Bliss Cavendar : I think it depends on the girl.

  Brooke Cavendar : Or finding a husband? No, you just limit your choices.

  Bliss Cavendar : Seriously, you need to stop. You really need to stop shoving your psychotic idea of '50s womanhood down my throat. And pageants? I mean, what have they ever done for you?

  Brooke Cavendar : That's my point, Bliss! I didn't have a mother.. to navigate all my opportunities.

  Bliss Cavendar : Jesus Christ. I am in love with this. I mean, don't you get it?

  Brooke Cavendar : It won't last. In two or three years, it'll be over. This is a moment.

  Bliss Cavendar : Well, how great is that?

  Brooke Cavendar : You don't understand. You will when you have to support yourself.

  Bliss Cavendar : I do support myself.

  Brooke Cavendar : No, you don't. You buy shoes.

  Bliss Cavendar : You're full of shit. You know what, actually...

  Earl Cavender : Hey. Hey, you calm down, little lady.

  Bliss Cavendar : Why don't you go back to your turtle shell so you don't have to freaking confront anything?

• Brooke Cavendar : I'm supposed to buy you shoes from a... a head shop? Does that really strike you as responsible parenting?

  Bliss Cavendar : Fine, the shoes are a gateway drug.

• Bliss Cavendar : I gave him everything.

  Brooke Cavendar : No, don't say that.

  Bliss Cavendar : No, it's true.

  [Brooke tilts her head a little to the right looking for confirmation] 

  Bliss Cavendar : I did.

  Brooke Cavendar : [Looks away. Gets up, goes to the kitchen and lights up a cigarette]  That's a lot to process.

• Brooke Cavendar : So enlighten me. What was that little stunt all about? Are you trying to sabotage your chances? Or was it just your biological urge to make your mother look like a jackass?

• Brooke Cavendar : I'm sorry that these pageants don't live up to your high moral standards, Bliss, but there's a lot you can learn from them, no matter what you go on to be in life. You think you're being judged up there on that stage, but no one's asking you to be Miss America.

• Earl Cavender : And had I known what you were up to, I would have bought a ticket.

  Brooke Cavendar : Earl.

  Earl Cavender : I mean, dang it, girl, what has gotten into you?

  Bliss Cavendar : Just defective, I guess.

  Brooke Cavendar : Nice parenting, Earl.

• Bliss Cavendar : You hate them.

  Brooke Cavendar : Well, they don't have duct tape on them. That's an improvement.

• Earl Cavender : Yeah, it's Earl.

  Brooke Cavendar : Hello, Earl. Can you please explain to your daughter why it's inappropriate to buy shoes in a head shop?

  Bliss Cavendar : Dad, it's not like that.

  Earl Cavender : You took your mother to a head shop? Are you off your nut?

  Bliss Cavendar : You know, if she wasn't here and I used my own money, it wouldn't make a difference.

  Brooke Cavendar : That's not the point.

  Earl Cavender : Look, I am in the middle of a deal here, okay? So whatever you all work out is fine with me.

  Brooke Cavendar : Give me that.

  Earl Cavender : Okay?

  Brooke Cavendar : Earl, do you know how hard I have worked to raise these girls in a drug-free environment?

  Earl Cavender : Yes, I do.

  Brooke Cavendar : Exactly.

• Brooke Cavendar : You think you have all the time in the world, but there's not many girls who are both smart and pretty like you. And I hate to admit it, but the pretty part doesn't last forever. You got to make the most of what you have while you can. Nobody tells you that.

• Bliss Cavendar : Mom, you're still really beautiful.

  Brooke Cavendar : Save your sarcasm for later.

• Brooke Cavendar : I know that you're just too bohemian to care, but she has to cheer tonight.

  Bliss Cavendar : And she's gonna go through with it? What an athlete.

• Brooke Cavendar : Well, I know I can go overboard sometimes. But when the person that you love more than anything tells you that you suck, it...

• Bliss Cavendar : It's the only cool thing you own.

  Brooke Cavendar : That you'd know about.

• Brooke Cavendar : Pretty vases.

  Atomic City Clerk #1 : They're great for tulips, really.