Cecil B. Demented (2000)

Melanie Griffith: Honey Whitlock

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Quotes 

• Honey : How can you be a drug addict in the new millennium? It's so retro.

  Lyle : Before I was a drug addict, I had so many different problems. Now I just have one - drugs! Gave my life a real focus.

• Fidget : No! I want to go home! I don't want to be in show business anymore!

  Cecil : I knew you were the weak one, Fidget. Just remember, your parents liked Godzilla.

  Lyle : They wouldn't even let you see R-rated films as a child.

  Dinah : They've never even been to a midnight movie.

  Chardonnay : They enjoy classic TV sitcoms turned into feature length films.

  Cherish : They've never rented a porno movie.

  Cecil : And to top it all off, they talk out loud in the theatre once the feature has begun.

  Honey : Oh, that really is unforgivable, Fidget.

  Fidget : Okay, okay! My parents are the enemies of film!

• Honey : Family is just a dirty word for censorship.

• Honey : No! Please let me go! I promise I won't tell anyone about your little movie!

  Cecil : Little?

  Honey : I didn't mean, you know, *little*. I meant, you know, low-budget... ly cult.

• Honey : Cherish, this is America, you know. It's a free country. People can make bad movies if they so desire.

  Cecil : Not anymore they don't!

  Cherish : You think just cause you've made "real" movies you're better than me, don't you?

  Honey : Oh, please.

  Cherish : Do you know why I became a porno star?

  [everyone in van groans] 

  Cecil : Cherish has recovered memory.

  Cherish : When I was ten years old, my entire family fucked me under the Christmas tree.

  Honey : I'm so sorry.

  Cherish : Yeah, I bet you are... "jingle balls, jingle balls" my stupid brother started singing.

  Honey : [laughs] 

  Cherish : You think that's funny?

  Honey : [still laughing]  No, I don't.

  Cecil : That's all behind you now, Cherish. We're here, and we're makin' movies.

• [filming a scene for "Raving Beauty"] 

  Honey : It's that fucking new multiplex that opened in the mall, isn't it?

  Cherish : I heard they were sold out last night, mom.

  Lyle : No, not for the Flinstones sequel...!

• Honey : Raven, you know, you're a really pretty girl. You could escape from all of this madness.

  Raven : Escape to what, Honey? I mean, my father is Zo-Zo, the three headed guard dog at the gate to hell.

  Honey : Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

• Honey : I am ready for my close-up, Mr. Demented.

• Honey : I fucking hate Forrest Gump!

• Cecil : Do you see the pain your performance is causing me? Huh?

  Honey : Okay, yes I do. F... fine, uhm, I'll do it. Okay? Let's just shoot it.

• Honey : Attica... Rodney King !