Almost Famous (2000)

Zooey Deschanel: Anita Miller

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Quotes 

• Elaine Miller : [to William]  Your Dad was so proud of you. He knew you were a predominantly accelerated child.

  Anita Miller : What about me?

  Elaine Miller : You are rebellious and ungrateful of my love.

• Anita Miller : First it was butter; then, it was sugar and white flour, bacon, eggs, bologna, rock 'n roll, motorcycles. Then! It was celebrating Christmas on a day in September when you knew it wouldn't be commercialized! What else are you gonna ban?

  Elaine Miller : Honey, you want to rebel against knowledge, I'm trying to give you the Cliff Notes on how to live life in this world.

  Anita Miller : We're like nobody else I know!

  Elaine Miller : I am a college professor. Why can't I teach my own kids? Use me!

  Anita Miller : Darryl says that you use knowledge to keep me down. He says that I'm a "Yes" person and *you* are trying to raise us in a "No" environment.

  Elaine Miller : Well, clearly "No" is a word Darryl doesn't hear much.

  Anita Miller : I can't live here! I hate you! Even William hates you!

  Young William : I don't hate her.

  Anita Miller : You *do* hate her. You don't even know the truth.

  Elaine Miller : Sweetheart, don't be a drama queen.

  Anita Miller : Feck you!

  Elaine Miller : Hey!

  Anita Miller : This is a house of lies!

• Anita Miller : One day you'll be cool. Look under your bed, it'll set you free.

• Anita Miller : All the kids make fun of him. They call him the Narc behind his back.

  Elaine Miller : What's a narc?

  Anita Miller : It's a narcotics officer.

  Elaine Miller : Well, what's wrong with THAT?

• Anita Miller : It's unfair that we can't listen to our music.

  Elaine Miller : It's because it is about drugs and promiscuous sex.

  Anita Miller : Simon and Garfunkel is poetry.

  Elaine Miller : Yes it's poetry. It is the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex! Honey, they're on - pot.

• Anita Miller : Listen to Tommy with a candle burning, and you'll see your entire future.

• Anita Miller : [talking to William at the airport, after his story was rejected by Rolling Stone]  You look awful, but it's great. You're living your life. You're free of Mom.

  [William makes a face at her] 

  Anita Miller : Hey, I'll take off work. Let's have an adventure together - you and me - finally. Anywhere you wanna go, anywhere in the world.

  Anita Miller : [cut to the Miller's house]  This is not my idea of a good time.

• Anita Miller : This song explains why I'm leaving home to become a stewardess.

  Elaine Miller : We can't talk? We have to listen to rock music?

  [Anita puts on Simon & Garfunkel's "America"] 

• Anita Miller : You've robbed him of an adolescence.

  Elaine Miller : Adolescence is a marketing tool.

• Elaine Miller : I forgive you.

  Anita Miller : I didn't apologize.