Cry-Baby (1990)

Traci Lords: Wanda Woodward

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Quotes 

• Wanda's Father : Hi, Wanda honey.

  Wanda's mother : You were on the radio.

  Wanda : Would you just get me the fuck out of here?

  Wanda's mother : What's "fuck" mean, Hector?

  Wanda's Father : Oh, Maggie, it's just a teen nonsense word Wanda uses to make herself feel all grown-up.

  Wanda's mother : Your Honor, could we take Wanda the fuck home?

• Wanda : Think Cry-Baby's got blue balls for the chick?

  Hatchet Face : Allison's a square, Wanda. Cry-Baby don't dig squares.

  Pepper : No, she's a scrape - part square, part drape. I think she's pretty.

• Milton Hackett : Looks like somebody lost their laundry.

  Lenora Frigid : Hello Cry-Baby. You've scorched me, man.

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Later, Lenora.

  Lenora Frigid : But Cry-baby, I need a date for tonight's Jukebox Jamboree.

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Well, I'm solo, sugar.

  Lenora Frigid : [offering to show her breasts]  Wanna see these gunboats? I give, Cry-baby. I give bare second on the first date.

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Use your mentality and cool down!

  Wanda : Yeah, Lenora, your bosoms ain't nothin'!

  Hatchet-Face : Better watch it, bozo! You might catch a cold!

  Pepper : My brother wouldn't touch your titties with a ten-foot pole. He likes his women bad, Lenora, not cheap!

• Wanda : You wanna learn about America, Inga? In America, we like boys! We like hot boys! Boys with roaming hands and rushing fingers!

  Wanda's mother : Wanda honey, want some Ovaltine?

  Inga : Ja, ja, ja!

  Wanda : Yeah, I'm just a bebop baby, and I don't take nothing from no one! See ya later, daddy-os. Have a cool Yule and a frantic First!

• Allison : It's really wild, but I'm-I'm afraid that I'm not gonna fit in here. You know, with your friends, and stuff.

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : You're cool, Allison. You just look square. Underneath it all, I think you're really hep.

  Hatchet-Face : Well, what have we here?

  Wanda : The first square to ever set foot in Turkey Point.

  Pepper : Hey fine mama, welcome to the Jukebox Jamboree!

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : These are the Cry-Baby girls. That's Wanda.

  Wanda : Dig it, babe. You need a new look!

  Hatchet-Face : Don't you got tits? Stick 'em out, for God's sake!

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : That's Hatchet-face. She don't mean no harm.

  Pepper : The first thing a Cry-Baby girl learns: our bazooms are our weapons!

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : Now, Pepper's pregnant, but she can fight like a man!

  Wanda : I wouldn't be caught dead in a full skirt.

  Pepper : Hey girls, what do you think? Let's give Allison here a bad girl beauty makeover. You game?

  Allison : Sure! Think I got what it takes?

  Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper : Whoa ho ho!

  Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker : You got it, Allison. You got it raw!

• Cry-Baby : [singing]  High school hell cats.

  Pepper , Hatchet Face , Milton Hackett , Allison , Wanda : [singing]  On our own.

  Cry-Baby : [singing]  High school hell cats.

  Pepper , Hatchet Face , Milton Hackett , Allison , Wanda : [singing]  Almost grown.

  Cry-Baby : [singing]  Come on pick a fight, we wish you would. I love being bad cause it sure feels good. Oh-oh!

• Uncle Belvedere Rickettes : Today's a special day for me and your grandmother. We've been together ten whole years.

  Ramona Rickettes : I'm just so proud of all my drape children! Oh Wanda, you sure is pretty in them tight clothes, all painted up like trash!

  Wanda : I wish you and Belvedere were my parents.

  Ramona Rickettes : Now Milton, boy, you are everything a man should be: you're young, stupid, and... mean!

  Milton Hackett : We're gonna play some cool music for you tonight, Ramona.

  Ramona Rickettes : And Hatchet-face, oh honey! You're just like me. Now, you put the T in tough! So hard you could've been eating nails for breakfast! But that's the way a woman's got to be these days.

  Hatchet-Face : I'd kick a square's ass for you in a minute, Mrs. Rickettes!

  Ramona Rickettes : Oh, this is the best gang my grandson could ever have!

• [first lines] 

  Wanda's mother : Hi Kids. Remember, always look both ways before crossing.

  Wanda : [embarassed]  Mother!

• Cry-Baby : [singing]  I had my first cigarette before I could walk / And I was strumming this guitar before I could talk, Cause I'm the King.

  Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing]  King Cry Baby.

  Cry-Baby : [singing]  Yeah, I'm the King.

  Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing]  King Cry Baby.

  Cry-Baby : [singing]  Oh, I'm the King.

  Hatchet-Face , Wanda , Pepper , Milton Hackett , Allison : [singing]  King Cry Baby.

  Cry-Baby : [singing]  A King Cry Baby with a tear in my eye / If you mess with the King you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry.

• Ko Jo Jackson : Hey, you! Yeah, you, the looker with the Class-A sealed-beam headlights. You wanna pose for Ko Jo?

  Wanda : Beat it, creep.

• Wanda : I'm blowin' this joint.