20 Best Annette Bening Quotes

Sue: I don't have the answers, Charley. But I know that people get confused in this life about what they want, and what they've done, and what they think they should've because of it. Everything they think they are or did, takes hold so hard that it won't let them see what they can be.

Carolyn: Oh, I see. You think you're the only one who's sexually frustrated?
Lester: I'm not? Well, then, come on, baby, I'm ready!

Carolyn: Honey, I'm so proud of you. I watched you very closely, and you didn't screw up once!

Barbara: Hello, my name is Barbara.
AA: Hello, Barbara.
Barbara: I am an alcoholic, but I haven't had a drink in three months!

Sue: So is it marriage that scares you two, or putting down roots?
Boss: No. Who'd have him? All rangy and mangy like a rough old dog.
Charley: How about I hold your head under water for just a little while?

Carolyn: Are you trying to look unattractive?
Jane: Yes.
Carolyn: Well, congratulations. You've succeeded admirably.

[Lester has just caught Caroline cheating with the Real Estate King]
Carolyn: Uh, Buddy, this is my...
Lester: Her husband. We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time.

Carolyn: What are you doing?
Lester: Nothing.
Carolyn: You were masturbating!
Lester: I was not.
Carolyn: Yes you were!
Lester: Oh, all right! So shoot me, I was whacking off! That's right, I was choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying "hi" to my monster!

Sue: You're a disgrace, Marshal Poole. You always have been.
Sheriff: I know it. That's just the way it is.

Barbara: Do you have to drink in front of me?
Art: You're an adult. Cope.

Sue: [checking injuries] Are you the boy's father?
Boss: No ma'am. His name's Button, and he works for me.
Sue: It appears that's not very healthy.

Lester: I am sick and tired of being treated like I don't exist. You two do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it, and I don't complain.
Carolyn: Oh, you don't complain? Then please, excuse me, I must be psychotic, then! If you don't complain, what is this? Yeah, let's bring in the laugh-meter and see how loud it gets.
Lester: [Lester throws the asparagus plate at the wall] Don't interrupt me, honey!
Lester: [sits back down to eat] Oh, yeah, and one more thing, from now on we're going to have alternate dinner music because frankly - and I don't think I'm alone here...
[looks in Jane's direction]
Lester: I'm tired of this Lawrence Welk shit!

- and enough champagne to fill the nile.
Simon: Champagne!
Euphemia: It's not even half ten.
- Then we're behind.
- Poirot: So, there is one more above, yes?
- Hello, Egypt.

Barbara: Know anyone who can fly a plane?
Byron: Yeah, your husband Art.
Barbara: No... he's dead. I told him this was gonna happen.

Mr. Smiley's Counter Girl: Whoa! You are so busted.
Carolyn: You know, this really doesn't concern you.
Lester: Well, actually, Janine is Senior Drive-thru Manager. So you are, kind of, on her turf.

Carolyn: [Carolyn is having sex in a motel room with the Real Estate King] Oh god, I love it!
Buddy: You like gettin' nailed by the King?
Carolyn: Oh yes, I love it! Fuck me, your majesty!
Buddy: Who's the King?
Carolyn: You are!

[at the dinner table]
Carolyn: Your father and I were just discussing his day at work. Why don't you tell our daughter about it, honey?
Lester: Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Carolyn: Your father seems to think this kind of behavior is something to be proud of.
Lester: And your mother seems to prefer that I go through life like a fucking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink.
Carolyn: How dare you speak to me that way in front of her. And I marvel that you can be so contemptuous of me, on the same day that you LOSE your job.
Lester: Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. Someone pass the asparagus, please.

Lester: You don't think it's kinda weird & fascist?
Carolyn: Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed.
Lester: Oh well, all right, let's all sell our souls and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way.

Euphemia: Looking good, Simon!
Simon: Come, everyone! Let's go!
- Come on.
Salome: [Continues singing]
- Only feed me
- Till I want no more then you take me to your blessed home above

Sue: You are coming back, aren't you? Then I'll be waiting for you Charles Postlewaite.
Charley: [to Boss, who is riding away] You bucket mouth! Can't keep nothing private.