Margaret White [to Carrie, about Tommy Ross and everyone else]
He's going to laugh at you, they're all going to laugh at you!
Played by Piper Laurie 
Carrie (1976) · 17 quotes
Carrie (1976) · 17 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Carrie (1976): in 8 of its 17 quotes
Most scenes with: Carrie White (5)
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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6 scenes Margaret White 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.
Margaret White These are godless times, Mrs. Snell.
Mrs. Snell I'll drink to that, Mrs. White, I like to contribute five... ten dollars.
Margaret White I see. I pray you find Jesus.
Margaret White 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?
Margaret White You're a woman now.
Why didn't you tell me, Momma? I... [Margaret slaps Carrie's face begins to read a verse]
Margaret White [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?
Margaret White Say it. [hits Carrie in the face] The raven was called sin. [hits her again]
No, Momma.
Margaret White And the first sin was intercourse, the first sin was intercourse.
I didn't sin, Momma.
Margaret White Say it. [hits her again]
I didn't sin, Momma!
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White [hits her again]
And Eve was weak, say it, Carrie!
No!
Margaret White Eve was weak!
NO!
Margaret White Eve was weak, say it, woman!
NO, NO, MOMMA!
Margaret White Say it!
And Eve was weak... Eve was weak!
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White [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!
Margaret White Don't lie to me, Carrieta, don't you know by now that I can see the inside of you?
Noooo.
Margaret White I can see the sin as surely as God can!
Let me go, Momma, please, you're hurting me.
Margaret White We'll pray.
No! No, Momma! No! NO! NO, NO,...LET ME GO! God, NOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!
Margaret White [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!
Margaret White [The thunderstorm is heard]
Carrie, you haven't touched your apple cake.
It gives me pimples, Momma.
Margaret White Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
Margaret White Yeah.
Momma, please say that I've to try and get along with people better.
Margaret White [giggles]
What are you going on about, Carrie?
I've been invited to the prom.
Margaret White [long pause, then looking sternly at Carrie]
Prom?
Yeah, the prom... everyone's goin'.
Margaret White 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...
Margaret White No.
and he promised to come in and meet you--
Margaret White I said no.
and he'd have me home by midnight and--
Margaret White No. [Carrie bangs the table] No, no, no!
I ACCEPT IT, MOMMA! I ACCEPT, MOMMA, I accepted!
Margaret White Go to your closet!
No.
Margaret White [pause]
After all, you've been taught, Carrie!
Everyone ain't bad, Momma. Everything ain't no sin!
Margaret White Go to your closet and pray, ask to be forgiven.
He's a nice boy, momma, We like you, mama, You'll like him.
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White Tell that boy you're not going, or we're gonna move from here!
No.
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White 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.
Margaret White You must renounce this power, you must give it up, you must never use it.
I'm going momma, you can't stop me, and I don't wanna talk about it anymore.
Margaret White [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?
Margaret White I can see your dirty pillows, everyone will.
Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.
It was bad, Mama, they laughed at me, hold me, Momma, please hold me.
Margaret White 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.
Yes.
Margaret White We'll pray. we'll pray. we'll pray for the last time, we'll pray.
