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Miss Congeniality
Gracie Hart: You think I'm gorgeous, you want
to kiss me...You want to hug me...You want to love me...You want to hug me...You
want to smooch me...You want to...
[To
models refusing pizza and beer.]
Gracie Hart: It's lite beer, and she's gonna
throw it up anyway.
Stan
Fields: Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date.
Cheryl
"Rhode Island": That's a tough one. I would have to say April 25th.
Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.
Gracie
Hart: I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved,
AND I'm armed! Don't MESS with me!
Gracie
Hart: Donut Nazi.
Gracie
Hart: I would so like to hurt you right now.
Victor Melling: As long as you
smile.
Victor
Melling: What, no armored car?
Gracie Hart: It's in my other dress.
Victor
Melling: What no armored car?
Gracie Hart: That would be in my other dress
Kathy
Morningside: Of course he had a gun. This is Texas! Everybody has a gun. My florist
has a gun!
Victor
Melling: Smilers wear a crown, losers wear a frown.
Eric
Matthews: Is this you not arguing? 'Cause you suck at it.
Victor
Melling: The last time I saw a walk like that was in "Jurassic Park."
Kathy
Morningside: I would much rather cancel the show than have my girls blown up.
Stan Fields: Especially without their knowledge.
Stan
Fields: And we'll be right back with our five final lesbians -- interviews!
[After
McDonald sees himself in a bikini on the computer]
Eric Matthews: We were
just looking for someone to go undercover at the Miss United States Pageant, sir.
McDonald: And I'm the best we got. That doesn't inspire much confidence.
Eric
Matthews: Don't look at me like I betrayed you.
Gracie Hart: No, betrayal
implies an action, you just stood there!
Gracie
Hart: Gracie Lou Freebush?!
Eric Matthews: I thought you'd like that.
Gracie
Hart: Yeah, well. My IQ just dropped ten points.
Eric
Matthews: Operation "Thong" has commenced.
Gracie Hart: Why don't
you stun-gun yourself?
Eric Matthews: I knew she'd like that one.
Victor
Melling: Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State"?
Gracie Hart:
Because "Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" wouldn't fit on a license
plate?
Gracie
Hart: You think I'm gorgeous... You want to kiss me... You want to hug me... You
want to love me... You want to smooch me... You want to hug me.
Stan
Fields: What is the one most important thing our society needs?
Gracie Hart:
That would be... harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan.
[Crowd is
silent.]
Gracie Hart: And world peace!
[Crowd cheers ecstatically.]
Stan
Fields: Isn't she lovely! Thank you, Gracie Lou.
Gracie Hart: And thank YOU,
Stan.
[Gracie walks offstage.]
Victor Melling: That was wonderful, are
you drunk?
Gracie Hart: I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now if you'll excuse me,
I have to go unscrew my smile!
Eric
Matthews: Why don't you shut up.
Gracie Hart: Why? You're shutting up enough
for both of us.
Gracie
Hart: Look I know what I'm gonna do. I haven't done this since high school but
it's like riding a bike.
Victor Melling: You are not having sex on this stage.
Gracie Hart: I didn't know that was an option.
Victor
Melling: This woman has no talent!
Eric Matthews: Geez Vic! You don't gotta
shout it out in front of her!
Victor
Melling: Your hair should make a statement.
Gracie Hart: As long as it doesn't
say 'Thank you very much for the Country Music Award'!
Victor
Melling: I'm sorry, what was the question? I was distracted by the half-masticated
cow rolling around in your wide-open trap.
[Explaining
why she was with a guy the night before]
Gracie Hart: Yeah, I was dating him
for a while because he told me he had an incurable disease...
All Girls: ooh.
Gracie Hart: Yeah, I didn't realize it was stupidity.
Victor
Melling: Glide! Glide! Don't pick your feet up. Don't, don't... Why are you picking
your feet up?
Gracie Hart: Because I'm preparing to run away!
Victor
Melling: [teaching Gracie how to glide] See? Glide. It's all in the buttocks.
Don't I look pretty?
Gracie Hart: It takes a very secure man to walk like
that.
Gracie
Hart: [a taxi nearly runs Gracie over] Hey! I'm gliding here!
Gracie
Hart: Look, she's gonna cry again.
[imitating winner]
Gracie Hart: "Oh,
if I only had a brain."
Gracie
Hart: My teeth-- What are you going to do with my teeth?
Victor Melling: Hopefully,
remove the beer stains and steak residue.
Cheryl
"Rhode Island": My idea of a perfect date would be a man who takes me
to a romantic dinner, and then we walk along the beach barefoot discussing books
and--and music and--and movies.
Karen "New York": No wonder you're
still a virgin.
Karen
"New York": I just want to let all the lesbians out there know if I
can make the top ten, so can you!
Gracie
Hart: In Hawaii don't they use aloha for hello and goodbye?
Miss Hawaii: Yeah,
so?
Gracie Hart: so if you're on the phone with somebody and they won't stop
talking and you say, ok aloha, don't they just start over again?
Eric
Matthews: This earpiece lets you hear anybody on our frequencies, and they can
hear you.
Gracie Hart: Don't need that, with all this foil in my hair I'm
getting HBO.
Kathy
Morningside: Oh, Oh Victor. You'll take the bags to the room. I realize it's been
awhile since you've been with us, but you remember how everything goes, don't
you?
[Kathy walks off with Gracie]
Victor Melling: One little mistake
and I'm a bloody bellhop!
Miss
Hawaii: Oh I know and it's an honor to have made it this far, I mean especially
when you come from such a small state,
Cheryl "Rhode Island": Oh
that's so true. Us Rhode Islanders...
Miss Hawaii: Umm I wasn't finished.
Did it sound like I was finished?
Cheryl "Rhode Island": I'm sorry.
I,
Karen "New York": Big Deals, what are you apologizing to her
for? She's obviously been drinking too much Coppertone.
Gracie
Hart: Good evening, I know the program says I'm supposed to play the water glasses
for you, but some of the girls got dehydrated.
[Vic
puts some fake boobs in Gracie's suit]
Gracie Hart: Oh good. I guess it's
time to go apply at my local Hooters.
[Vic holds up a tube Hemeroid ointment]
Gracie Hart: What? Hemeriod ointment? You really think the judges are going
to be looking that closely?
Victor Melling: It's for the little baggies under
your eyes.
Gracie Hart: Really.
[Vic shakes a can of hairspray]
Gracie
Hart: Oh good, hairspray. Something I finally recognize.
[Vic sprays the bottom
of her suit and she bonks into the mirror]
Gracie Hart: What are you doing?
Victor Melling: It stops the suit from riding up.
Gracie Hart: Riding
up where?
Victor Melling: Just...up!
Gracie Hart: That is enough!
Victor
Melling: Why do you make things difficult for me?
Gracie Hart: Oh yeah. I
can see this is an incredibly embarrassing situation for YOU!
Eric
Matthews: Just imagine that she's me and there's something you wanna know but
I don't wanna talk about it. What would you do?
Victor Melling: You want me
to beat it out of her?!?
[Gracie
pulls earpiece out of her ear]
Eric Matthews: Wo wo wo. Wait a minute, what
are you doing?
Gracie Hart: I can't talk girl talk with a guy in my head!
I can't even do it with me in my head!
Kathy
Morningside: New Jersey, as you know, there are people who consider the Miss United
States Pageant outdated and anti-feminist. What would you say to them?
Gracie
Hart: Well, I would have to say that I used to be one of them. And then I came
here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are trying
to make a difference in the world. And we've become really good friends. I mean,
I know we all secretly hope the other one will trip and fall flat on her face...but
oh wait a minute, I've already done that! And for me this experience has been
one of the most rewarding and liberating experiences of my life.
Victor Melling:
My god, I did it!
Gracie Hart: And if anyone, anyone tries to hurt one of
my new friends, I would take them out. I would make them suffer so much that they'd
wish they were never born. And if they ran, I would hunt them down. Thank you,
Kathy.
Victor Melling: A brief shinning moment and then that mouth!
Kathy
Morningside: You know, you think you saved something tonight, but all you did
was to destroy the dream of young women all over this country.
Gracie Hart:
What? You think that their dream is to get blown up?
Eric
Matthews: You gotta admit, part of you is going to miss this.
Gracie Hart:
I know I am going to miss the heels because they do something for my posture.
And suddenly very aware and proud of my breasts.
Eric Matthews: Funny, so
am I.
Victor
Melling: I knew I'd never get you here, unless you had the chance to shoot something.
[after
getting a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream]
Gracie
Hart: I'm going to get chip faced.
[After
Eric pulls Gracie into the pool]
Gracie Hart: Oh, Vic's gonna kill you. You
in big trouble.
Eric Matthews: You look good wet.
Gracie Hart: Shut up!
Victor
Melling: If I'd ever had a daughter, I imagine she might have been something like
you...which is perhaps why I've never reproduced.
Eric
Matthews: Maybe we could have dinner...
Gracie Hart: What do you mean? Like
a date?
Eric Matthews: No! Just casual dinner... If we happen to have sex
afterwards so be it!
Cheryl
"Rhode Island": Once I stole a pair of red underwear from the department
store. My mom wouldn't buy them for me--she said they were Satan's panties!
Victor
Melling: He's with me.
Eric Matthews: I'm not "with him" with him,
you know? It's not like-
Victor Melling: Come on, Muffin!
Gracie
Hart: The last time I was this naked in public I was coming out of a uterus!
Gracie
Hart: Where am I gonna keep my gun?
Eric Matthews: Nowhere I wanna know about!
Gracie
Hart: [To Victor] You know, you're gonna get yours, Henry Higgins.
Kathy
Morningside: Twenty-five years of bitching beauty queens and what do I get? Fired!
They steal my life. They steal my beauty pageant!
Gracie Hart: Hey! It is
not a beauty pageant. It is a scholarship program.
Kathy Morningside: Yeah,
yeah.
Gracie Hart: YES.