Amanda Seyfried: Linda

Lovelace

Linda

Linda: You know I spent exactly seventeen days in the pornography industry and somehow these seventeen days are suppose to define who I am for the rest of my life, but I hope that people can see me for who I really am. I mean Linda Lovelace was a fictitious character. My name is Linda Marchiano. I can finally be myself. I'm a mother and a wife and that is where I found my joy.

Linda: I had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor, but it didn't start out like you're describing. He was a gentleman when I first met him. He was always opening doors for me and lighting my cigarettes and he was very charming when he wanted to be... and I was young, you know, I was twenty-one when I went to live with him... and it wasn't until after that, that things just started to change. He started talking about different sexual things, things that I had never heard of before, things that I - I couldn't imagine, you know? I didn't want to. I was raised... I was raised to obey my husband, to please him for better or for worse... so that's what I did.

Chuck: You lost us a movie deal tonight. Just sittin' up on stage, taking bows like - Princess "Fuckin'" Grace.
Linda: I'm sorry, Chuck.
Chuck: Fifty, maybe a hundred thousand.
Linda: To do another fuck film?
Chuck: No, Linda, it's Shakespeare. I told them you do a great English accent, particularly with a cock down your throat.

Chuck: Some girls were turning tricks out back.
Linda: What do you mean - like prostitution?
Chuck: Yeah. Linda, it's a tittie bar. What do you think - these girls live off minimum wage?

Chuck: Come on.
Linda: I don't want to.
Chuck: You know, maybe that's because you're not any good at it. Come on, you're going to love it.
Linda: Really?
Chuck: Yeah.
Linda: I'll like it? Choking myself?
Chuck: I could teach you. Remember how I got you to quit smoking?
Linda: Yeah. You gonna hypnotize me?
Chuck: Its the same mind-body control technique. Yeah? Outta sight! Ah! Okay, your mind has control. Come on. A little more. There you go. Take it in. That's right. Don't forget to breathe.

Dolly: When you get to be my age in this business, it helps to have as many skills as you can.
Linda: I don't have any skills.
Dolly: That's not what I heard!

Harry Reems: Linda? Harry. We're getting it on in the next scene.
Linda: Oh! Hey, its nice to meet you. I thought your name was Dick?
Harry Reems: My stage name used to be Dick Long. But, it sounded kinda obvious, so, you know.
Linda: Yeah. I agree.
Harry Reems: It's a great business, isn't it? Anyway, I just thought I'd come by and introduce myself before we started going at it.

Thomas - Photographer: I don't think for the movie poster we can be so - anatomical.
Linda: I just don't want to disappoint anybody.

Thomas - Photographer: Tell me about the role you're playing.
Linda: A girl who's clit...
Thomas - Photographer: I know all that.
Linda: Okay.
Thomas - Photographer: Tell me about the person - you're playing.
Linda: Well, at first I'm - closed up - like a flower bud.
Thomas - Photographer: Yeah?
Linda: And - and then, gradually, the petals start to - to open. And - and then, I finally learn about about myself. And I learn - how to - to enjoy sex.
Thomas - Photographer: Beautiful.
Linda: And I feel free.

Harry Reems: You okay?
Linda: I'm a little nervous. I never had lines to talk before.
Harry Reems: We got the best job in the world. We just tune everybody out and live in the moment, like we're the only two people on the planet.
Linda: Tune everybody out. Live in the moment.
Harry Reems: Exactly. You're gonna do great. And I can't wait to get it on.

Hugh Hefner: I think you can be a star. I don't mean just an adult movie star. I mean - a real star.
Linda: Oh, I wish I could believe that.

Linda: He controlled everything. I never saw a penny. Not even after we moved to Malibu.

Feminist Journalist: How does it feel to be the poster girl for the Sexual Revolution?
Linda: It's just a goof. To me it's - it's a movie. Like any other movie, only it has so many better things in it.
Feminist Journalist: Like what?
Linda: Like me.

Gerry Damiano: Cut! Cut! Cut! Whoa, Harry? What's a matter? What's happening?
Harry Reems: I - I - I
Linda: He came.
Gerry Damiano: He what? He came? You came? Get outta here. What is this? Your Junior Prom?
Harry Reems: I know - I didn't - I just wasn't - I - Just give me three minutes. I can go again.
Linda: I'm really sorry. Did I do something wrong?
Gerry Damiano, Butchie Peraino, Anthony Romano: No!
Gerry Damiano: Sweetie.
Gerry Damiano, Butchie Peraino, Anthony Romano: No! No.