Carrie White [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.
Played by Sissy Spacek 
Carrie (1976) · 17 quotes
Carrie (1976) · 17 quotes
Most-quoted character in Carrie (1976): in 9 of its 17 quotes
Most scenes with: Margaret White (5)
SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET!
More lines from Carrie White
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IT'S CARRIE! (flips and throws the ashtray on the floor with her powers)
Carrie White Telekinesis, thought to be the ability to move or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.
Scenes with Carrie White
5 scenes
I know you're listening, Carrie, come on downstairs!
Carrie White [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.
Carrie White 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.
Carrie White Why didn't you tell me, Momma?
Say it. [hits Carrie in the face] The raven was called sin. [hits her again]
Carrie White No, Momma.
Carrie White [Margaret hits her again]
And the raven was called sin!
And the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.
Carrie White I didn't sin, Momma.
Say it. [hits her again]
Carrie White I didn't sin, Momma!
The first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.
Carrie White 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.
Carrie White No!
Eve was weak!
Carrie White NO!
Eve was weak, say it, woman!
Carrie White NO, NO, MOMMA!
Say it!
Carrie White 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!
Carrie White 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!
Carrie White No, momma, nooooo!
Don't lie to me, Carrieta, don't you know by now that I can see the inside of you?
Carrie White Noooo.
I can see the sin as surely as God can!
Carrie White Let me go, Momma, please, you're hurting me.
We'll pray.
Carrie White No! No, Momma! No! NO! NO, NO,...LET ME GO! God, NOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!
[puts Carrie in the closet and locks the closet door]
Carrie White [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!
Carrie White It gives me pimples, Momma.
Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
Carrie White [after long pause]
Momma?
Yeah.
Carrie White Momma, please say that I've to try and get along with people better.
Carrie White I've been invited to the prom.
Carrie White Yeah, the prom... everyone's goin'.
It was that teacher that called, wasn't it?
Carrie White 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!
Carrie White [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...
No.
Carrie White and he promised to come in and meet you--
I said no.
Carrie White and he'd have me home by midnight and--
No. [Carrie bangs the table] No, no, no!
Carrie White I ACCEPT IT, MOMMA! I ACCEPT, MOMMA, I accepted!
Go to your closet!
Carrie White No.
Carrie White Everyone ain't bad, Momma. Everything ain't no sin!
Go to your closet and pray, ask to be forgiven.
Carrie White 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!
Carrie White 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.
Carrie White Already said I would.
Tell that boy you're not going, or we're gonna move from here!
Carrie White No.
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.
Carrie White [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.
Carrie White [crying]
There's nothing to do with Satan, Momma, it's me, me, if I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.
You must renounce this power, you must give it up, you must never use it.
Carrie White I'm going momma, you can't stop me, and I don't wanna talk about it anymore.
Carrie White 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.
Carrie White Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.
Carrie White 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.
Carrie White Yes.
We'll pray. we'll pray. we'll pray for the last time, we'll pray.
