Female Trouble (1974)

Mary Vivian Pearce: Donna Dasher

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Quotes 

• Wink : I'm getting a hard-on! Beauty always gives me a hard-on!

  Donna Dasher : Aim it the other way then, Wink. You know how I detest organs. Beauty has absolutely nothing to do with that WORD, that THING you have hanging there like an obscene pickle. Spare me your anatomy.

• Taffy Davenport : What's that camera for?

  Donald Dasher : To take pictures of your mother.

  Taffy Davenport : HER?

  Donald Dasher : We happen to think she's quite beautiful.

  Taffy Davenport : You must be cockeyed, then! HEY, lady! Have some CHIPS!

  Donna Dasher : Really, I couldn't. Thanks, but uh, no thanks.

  Taffy Davenport : (mockingly) Nuh NYEHH nuh NYEEHHH.

  Dawn Davenport : You want your spaghetti with or without cheese?

  Donna Dasher : I'll have two chicken breasts please.

  Dawn Davenport : Well, uh, we're not having that, we're having spaghetti.

  Donna Dasher : I couldn't possibly eat spaghetti, do I look Italian?

  Donald Dasher : We rarely eat any form of noodle. But I'll take a small portion to be polite, with cheese, please.

  Donna Dasher : I'll have an extremely large glass of ice-water.

• Aunt Ida : Aahhh! Ahhhh! Dawn, ya son of a bitch! You're the one who did it! YOU! You drove Gater away!

  [as Ida enters the room] 

  Donald Dasher : Oh my God!

  Donna Dasher : Incredible!

  Dawn Davenport : Ida Nelson, you get out of my house!

  Aunt Ida : You made Gater leave! I got somethin for your face, motherfucker!

  [Ida hurls acid into Dawn's face] 

• Donna Dasher : Oh, God, this neighborhood's hideous. I'm scared rats are gonna come out and bite my new nylons.

• Donald Dasher : Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous!

  Donna Dasher : It makes the Mona Lisa look like a number painting.

• Dawn Davenport : I had never felt complete until I experienced an eyeliner rush.

  Donald Dasher : We've been on the stuff for months. Doctors and other simpletons may frown upon it; but, we beauty czars know what is good for the blood.

  Donna Dasher : Would you like to shoot some more? I had some orally earlier.

• Donald Dasher : We are always curious as to what drew you here to "Le Lipstique".

  Stripper : Well I heard all the strippers come here, and I got sick of my old salon.

  Donna Dasher : And supposing we become sick of you?

  Stripper : Well, I had hoped that wouldn't happen...!

  Donna Dasher : Well, I think it IS happening. It's hard to describe, but when I look into your face, I pick up a distinct feeling of nausea.

  Stripper : Hey, WAIT A MINUTE...!

• Taffy : [arrives at Dawn's dressing room backstage at Superstar Nightclub dressed in saffron robes]  Hare Krishna, mother!

  Dawn Davenport : Oh, you've finally done it, haven't you? Embarrassed me on my night of FAME!

  [grabbing her] 

  Dawn Davenport : No reporter saw you, did they?

  [Taffy shaking off her mother's hands] 

  Dawn Davenport : Ooh, look at you. I could vomit!

  Taffy : I thought I'd come and see you one last time before your karma caught up with you. Mother, it's not too late. Come to the temple with me.

  Donald Dasher : THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF BEAUTY!

  Donna Dasher : Remember Alice Crimmins.

• Donna Dasher : Dawn, we're planning a little experiment - a beauty experiment, you could call it. And we want you to be our model.

  Donald Dasher : Sort of a glamorous guinea pig, you might say.

• Donna Dasher : Say, yes, Dawn! Aren't you sick of getting your hair done? Don't you want the *throbbing* excitement of a modeling career? We'll give you a new look. An interest in life. And together we can overcome this *boredom* that imprisons us all.