Carrie 1976 quotes

17 quotes · 4 characters
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Characters
Margaret White Piper Laurie · 8 quotes
Chris Hargensen 4 quotes

Most scenes together: Carrie White & Margaret White (5), Chris Hargensen & Billy Nolan (3)

Carrie quotes

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It was bad, Mama, they laughed at me, hold me, Momma, please hold me.

I should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised and I believed him, but sin never dies,... sin never dies, at first it was all right, we lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it, with all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.

We'll pray. we'll pray. we'll pray for the last time, we'll pray.

She can't get away with this. I'm gonna get her.

Sue Snell
[groans]

Let it go, Chris.

Like hell, I will.

Miss Collins

One, two. One, two. One, two. The period's not up, Hargensen!

It is for me!

Miss Collins
[to the girls]

Keep running! Well, there are 10 minutes left.

Stick 'em up your a...! [Miss Collins slaps her in the face, the girls gasp and Chris cries] YOU CAN'T HIT US! YOU'LL GET CANNED FOR THIS, YOU BITCH!

Miss Collins

ONE MORE WORD OUT OF YOU AND I'M GONNA KNOCK YOU DOWN, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!

SHE CAN'T GET AWAY WITH THIS IF WE ALL STICK TOGETHER, NORMA!

Miss Collins

KEEP RUNNING!

[Norma lowers her head and shakes her head 'no']

Helen? [Helen shakes her head 'no'] SUE?!

Sue Snell

Shut up, Chris, just shut up.

This isn't over! This isn't over by a LONG SHOT! [storms off]

Miss Collins

You're out of the prom, Hargensen! [turns back to the girls] Okay, the show's over, in place, run! One, two. One, two. One two.

[referring to Carrie's prom gown]

Red. I might have known it would be red.

It's pink, Momma. [presenting her corsage] Look what Tommy gave me, Mama, aren't they beautiful?

I can see your dirty pillows, everyone will.

Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.

I know you're listening, Carrie, come on downstairs!

[coming down from upstairs or closing the door, Margaret has called her down after the phone call she received]

Momma, who is that? Who called?

You're a woman now.

Why didn't you tell me, Momma? I... [Margaret slaps Carrie's face begins to read a verse]

[reading from religious manual]

And God made Eve from the rib of Adam, and Eve was weak and loosed the raven on the world, and the raven was called sin. (pause) Say it, the raven was called sin.

Why didn't you tell me, Momma?

Say it. [hits Carrie in the face] The raven was called sin. [hits her again]

No, Momma.

[Margaret hits her again]

And the raven was called sin!

And the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.

I didn't sin, Momma.

Say it. [hits her again]

I didn't sin, Momma!

The first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.

And the first sin was intercourse, momma, I was so scared, I thought I was dying, and the girls... they all (everyone) laughed at me and threw tampons at me, momma.

[hits her again]

And Eve was weak, say it, Carrie!

Eve was weak!

Eve was weak, say it, woman!

NO, NO, MOMMA!

Say it!

And Eve was weak... Eve was weak!

And the Lord visited Eve with the curse, and the curse was the curse of the Christ's blood!

You should have told me, momma, You should've told me.

[kneels down and grabs Carrie's hands]

Oh, Lord, help this sinning woman see the sin of her days and ways, show her that if she had remained sinless, this curse of the Christ's blood would never have come down on her!

No, momma, nooooo!

Don't lie to me, Carrieta, don't you know by now that I can see the inside of you?

Noooo.

I can see the sin as surely as God can!

Let me go, Momma, please, you're hurting me.

We'll pray.

No! No, Momma! No! NO! NO, NO,...LET ME GO! God, NOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!

[puts Carrie in the closet and locks the closet door]
[bangs on the door]

OW, AH, GET OFF ME, MOMMAAAAAAA! LET ME GOOOOO, LET ME GOOOOO! LET ME OUUUT! [bangs on the door] MOMMA, LET ME OUT, please, momma, please, help me, MOMMA, GOD!

I'm here on the Lord's work, Mrs. Snell; spreadin' the gospel of God's salvation through Christ's blood!

Mrs. Snell

Yes, of course.

These are godless times, Mrs. Snell.

Mrs. Snell

I'll drink to that, Mrs. White, I like to contribute five... ten dollars.

I see. I pray you find Jesus.

[The thunderstorm is heard]

Carrie, you haven't touched your apple cake.

It gives me pimples, Momma.

Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.

[after long pause]

Momma?

Momma, please say that I've to try and get along with people better.

[giggles]

What are you going on about, Carrie?

I've been invited to the prom.

[long pause, then looking sternly at Carrie]

Prom?

Yeah, the prom... everyone's goin'.

It was that teacher that called, wasn't it?

Please see that I'm not like you, Momma, I'm funny... I mean, all the kids think I'm funny I don't wanna be. I wanna be normal. I wanna start to try me, a whole person before it's too late for me!

[Margaret throws tea on her face and Carrie wipes it off.]

His (Carrie's boyfriend's) name is Tommy Ross, and he's a very nice boy, Momma...

and he promised to come in and meet you--

I said no.

and he'd have me home by midnight and--

No. [Carrie bangs the table] No, no, no!

I ACCEPT IT, MOMMA! I ACCEPT, MOMMA, I accepted!

Go to your closet!

[pause]

After all, you've been taught, Carrie!

Everyone ain't bad, Momma. Everything ain't no sin!

Go to your closet and pray, ask to be forgiven.

He's a nice boy, momma, We like you, mama, You'll like him.

Boys? [laughs and claps] The boys, the boys? Yes, the boys. [The thunderstorm is heard] After the blood, comes the boys like sniffing dogs, grinning and slobbering and trying to find out where that smell comes from!

Momma, momma, make it stop, momma.

Where that smell has that smell! Listen, I know where they take them, because I've seen it all right! Well, you're not going.

Already said I would.

Tell that boy you're not going, or we're gonna move from here!

We're gonna move from here and you'll never see that boy again. The rain's coming in. I'm gonna close the window.

[crying]

Please sit and talk with me. momma, I'll get him, PLEASE, SIT DOWN AND TALK TO ME! [Carrie's telekenetic powers make shades/windows/doors closed and the thunderstorm is heard again] I'm going, momma, things are gonna change around here.

Witch, Got Satan's Power.

[crying]

There's nothing to do with Satan, Momma, it's me, me, if I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.

Telekinesis, thought to be the ability to move or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.

[to Carrie, about Tommy Ross and everyone else]

He's going to laugh at you, they're all going to laugh at you!

[to Margaret White] (tries to grab her hair)

SIT DOWN, (grabs her hair and points her finger at Margaret White) you sit there mama and don't say a word 'til I'm goin', I'll be home early, I love you, mama.