Showgirls (1995)

Gina Gershon: Cristal Connors

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• Cristal Connors : There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.

• Nomi Malone : Hello? Anybody here?

  Cristal Connors : Back here.

  Nomi Malone : What are you doing here?

  Cristal Connors : What am I doing here?

  [Cristal sniffs cocaine] 

  Cristal Connors : I'm doin' some of the finest cocaine in the world, darlin'. You want some?

  [Nomi shakes her head] 

  Nomi Malone : Mm-mmm.

  Cristal Connors : It's great for the muscles. I told Marty I'd work on your turns with you, darlin', but I'm feelin' a little turned inside out myself today.

  Nomi Malone : Cut the shit.

  Cristal Connors : [smiling]  OK. We got off on the wrong foot. Wanna start dancin' all over again?

  Nomi Malone : Why?

  Cristal Connors : Why not? Wanna go down to Spago, get somethin' to eat?

  Nomi Malone : Where is it?

  Cristal Connors : [sarcastically]  Just down from Ver-sayce.

  Nomi Malone : It's Versace.

  Cristal Connors : Ohhhhh, yeah.

  Nomi Malone : Yeah.

• Nomi Malone : Don't they have brown rice and vegetables?

  Cristal Connors : Do you like brown rice and vegetables?

  Nomi Malone : Yeah.

  Cristal Connors : You do?

  Nomi Malone : Sort of.

  Cristal Connors : Really?

  Nomi Malone : It's worse than dog food.

  [Cristal laughs] 

  Nomi Malone : It is!

  Cristal Connors : I've had dog food.

  Nomi Malone : You have?

  Cristal Connors : Mmm-hmmm. Long time ago. Doggy Chow. I used to love Doggy Chow.

  Nomi Malone : I used to love Doggy Chow, too!

  [Cristal and Nomi touch their chips together] 

• Nomi Malone : I get a headache from champagne.

  Cristal Connors : This isn't champagne. This... is HOLY WATER. I named myself after this holy water. Chrissie Lou Connors used to have dingy brown hair and little bitty tits. It's amazing what paint and a surgeon can do.

  [they clink champagne glasses] 

  Cristal Connors : You have great tits. They're really beautiful.

  Nomi Malone : Thank you.

  Cristal Connors : I like nice tits. I always have, how about you?

  Nomi Malone : I like having nice tits.

  Cristal Connors : How do you like having 'em?

  Nomi Malone : What do you mean?

  Cristal Connors : You know what I mean.

  Nomi Malone : I like having them in a nice dress, or a tight top.

  Cristal Connors : Mmmm. You like to show em off.

  Nomi Malone : I didn't like showing them off at the Cheetah.

  Cristal Connors : Why not? I liked lookin' at 'em there. We ALL liked lookin' at 'em there!

  Nomi Malone : It made me feel like a hooker.

  Cristal Connors : You *are* a whore, darlin'.

  Nomi Malone : No I'm not!

  Cristal Connors : We all are. We take the cash, we cash the check, we show 'em what they wanna see.

  Nomi Malone : Maybe YOU are a whore, Cristal, but I'm not.

  Cristal Connors : You and me, we're exactly alike.

  Nomi Malone : [shakes her head]  I'll NEVER be like you.

• Cristal Connors : You fuck him for the spot? Or you fuck him cause you wanted to? I say you did it for the spot.

  Nomi Malone : Is that what you did, Cristal?

  Cristal Connors : You don't want to piss me off, darlin', now that we're friends.

  Nomi Malone : No... You shouldn't get pissed off. Makes you look older!

  [Nomi pinches Cristal's cheek] 

• Cristal Connors : Where do you dance at, darlin'?

  Nomi Malone : Um... at the Cheetah.

  Cristal Connors : I don't know how good you are, darlin', and I don't know what it is you're good at, but if it's at the Cheetah, it's not dancing, I know that much.

  Nomi Malone : You don't know shit!

• Cristal Connors : You fucked her, didn't you?

  Zack Carey : Does that piss you off because you're jealous, Cris? Or because I beat you to the punch?

• Cristal Connors : Nobody's going to take my lead anyway, darling. I haven't missed a show in eight years.

  Tony Moss : Well, you're not getting any younger, are you?

  Cristal Connors : Eat me.

• Nomi Malone : You got me the audition, didn't you?

  Cristal Connors : Uh-huh.

  Nomi Malone : Why?

  Cristal Connors : Maybe I like the way you dance. Maybe I like you, anyway, what difference does it make?

  Nomi Malone : Did you enjoy that out there?

  Cristal Connors : [smiling]  Yeah darlin', I think I did.

  Nomi Malone : I hate you.

  Cristal Connors : I know.

  [She hands Nomi a tissue] 

  Cristal Connors : Here, wipe your nose.

• Cristal Connors : Molly, this top is way too tight. My breasts are just getting crushed in here.

  Molly Abrams : I can loosen it for you.

  Cristal Connors : Okay... To about here... Maybe... No, no a little less. I want my nipples to press, but I don't want them to look like they're levitatin'!

• Cristal Connors : I'm gettin' a little too old for that whorey look.

• [after Zack's lap dance, to Zack] 

  Cristal Connors : Can you walk?

• Cristal Connors : You wanna dance?

  Nomi Malone : Right now?

  Cristal Connors : It's now or never, that's what Elvis said.

• Cristal Connors : Oh, you know the best advice I ever got? You're up there on stage, hopin' on a spot. If someone gets in your way, step on 'em. If you're the only one left standing there, they hire you. That's about it. Thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen. Elvis has left the building.

• Zack Carey : Nomi's got heat.

  Cristal Connors : Does she now?

  Marty Jacobsen : Yes, she does... in a totally different way, of course.

• Nomi Malone : I gotta go.

  Cristal Connors : Aren't you gonna come here and give me a big kiss?

  [Nomi and Cristal kiss] 

  Cristal Connors : Bye darlin.

  Nomi Malone : Bye darlin.

• Cristal Connors : Your friend has nice nails.

  Molly Abrams : She does them herself.

  Cristal Connors : Maybe she can do mine sometime.

• Nomi Malone : Hi, my name is Heather.

  Cristal Connors : Hey Nomi. I love your nails. We'd like you to have a private dance with both of us.

  Nomi Malone : We don't do that. One at a time. No women.

  Cristal Connors : A hundred dollars.

  Nomi Malone : Sorry. That's the rules.

  Cristal Connors : Two hundred. You just do Zack and I'll watch.

  [Nomi shakes her head no] 

  Cristal Connors : Five hundred.

• [Repeated line] 

  Cristal Connors : Hey darlin.

• Cristal Connors : It's amazing what paint and a surgeon can do.