The Help (2011)
Bryce Dallas Howard: Hilly Holbrook
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Quotes
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Minny Jackson : Eat my shit.
Hilly Holbrook : What'd you say?
Minny Jackson : I said eat... my... shit.
Hilly Holbrook : Have you lost your mind?
Minny Jackson : No, ma'am but you is about to. 'Cause you just did.
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Hilly Holbrook : Maybe I can't send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.
Aibileen Clark : I know something about you. Don't you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.
Hilly Holbrook : Nobody will believe what you wrote!
Aibileen Clark : I don't know. I been told I'm a pretty good writer, already sold a lot of books!
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Hilly Holbrook : [check from Celia Foote] Pay to the order of: Two Slice Hilly, $200.00.
[tears it up]
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Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : What the hell? What are you doing here?
[Hilly throws her cigarette at Skeeter]
Hilly Holbrook : I contacted my lawyer. Hibby Goodman? He is the best libel attorney in the state. Oh, Missy, you are going to jail!
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : You can't prove anything!
Hilly Holbrook : Oh, I 100% know you wrote it, 'cause nobody in this town is as tacky as you!
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : [Pokes Hilly] You don't know anything, Hilly!
Hilly Holbrook : [Shoves Skeeter] Oh, I don't, do I? You tell Abilene the next time she wants to write about my good friend Elizabeth... Hm? Remember her? Had you in her wedding?... Let's just say Abilene should have been a bit smarter before writing about that L-shaped scratch in poor Elizabeth's dining table.
[takes off her sunglasses]
Hilly Holbrook : And that nigger Minny... do I have plans for her.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : Careful, Hilly. That's chapter 12.
[Hilly gasps]
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : Don't give yourself away now.
Hilly Holbrook : That was not me!
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Hilly Holbrook : They carry different diseases than we do. That's why I've drafted the Home Health Sanitation Initiative.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : The what?
Hilly Holbrook : A disease-preventative bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. It's been endorsed by the White Citizen's Council.
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan : Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
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Hilly Holbrook : I specifically said, "Drop old *coats* at my house", not *commodes*!
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Hilly Holbrook : [about the pie] What do you put in here that makes it taste so good?
Minny Jackson : That good vanilla from Mexico and something else real special.
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Hilly Holbrook : Minny? Minny, are you in there?
Minny Jackson : Yes, ma'am.
Hilly Holbrook : And just what are you doing?
[Minny flushes the toilet]
Hilly Holbrook : [shouting] Get off my toilet! You are fired, Minny Jackson!
[Minny leaves the house walking in the rain]
Hilly Holbrook : Go on!
