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Citizen Shame (2000)

Andrea Bendewald: Bonnie

Quotes 

• Brooke McQueen : [after class, admiring teacher]  I love your jacket. Where did you get it?

  Bonnie : This? Uh, Paris. Have you been?

  Brooke McQueen : No. Oh, well, not yet.

  [giggles] 

  Brooke McQueen : Maybe you could recommend some colleges over there. Not that I'd get in.

  Bonnie : You know, I can provide the legal cheat sheet. What I can't give you, is confidence. It's Brooke, right?

  Brooke McQueen : Yeah.

  Bonnie : Let me guess. You're holding down a 3.7 average, juggling too many extra-curricular activities, a dad who worships you a little bit too much, a mom you can't completely trust and friends who would secretly love it if you had to go to beauty college.

  Brooke McQueen : [amazed]  Where did you get all of that from?

  Bonnie : That was my resume, circa 1991.

  Brooke McQueen : Wow. Were you a cheerleader?

  Bonnie : Three years. It was good training. You have to climb on a lot of backs to get through law school.

  Brooke McQueen : You went to law school, too?

  Bonnie : Graduated ninth in my class,

  [impressing Brooke] 

  Bonnie : clerked for two years, hated the people, and decided that I valued flexibility more than Armani suits.

  [Brooke smiles] 

  Bonnie : At least with this job, I feel like I'm... actually affecting people's lives. What about you? What do you wanna do?

  Brooke McQueen : Oh...! Uhm...

  [scoffs] 

  Brooke McQueen : I don't know... uhm... I just wanna be out of high school. You know, living on my own. My family situation's kinda screwed up.

  Bonnie : Who's isn't? But that can help. Once I realized that home is where the heartbreak is, I made some major life decisions.

  Brooke McQueen : Really?

  [eagerly:] 

  Brooke McQueen : So how do I get to be you?