Most-quoted character in Desperate Living (1977): in 9 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Grizelda Brown (2)
Am I living in hell?! Is that it?! Have I gone straight to hell?!
Peggy Gravel Hello? What number are you calling? You've dialed the wrong number! SORRY? What good is that? How can you ever repay the 30 seconds you have STOLEN FROM MY LIFE! I hate you, your husband, your children and your relatives!
Peggy Gravel Sodomites! Caught right in a sex orgy! You dirty filthy...! Is that what you learned in private school?! Nude, nude, nude! You could be pregnant, Beth! And as for you, I never thought you would rape your own SISTER! Oh God, the children are having SEX!
Peggy Gravel You know I hate nature! Look at those disgusting trees, stealing my oxygen!
Peggy Gravel You're just like the rest of the common **** in this town!
Peggy I knew they'd try it! Try to kill me in my own home! It's like war! Don't tell me I don't know what Vietnam is like! [opens the window] Brats! Brats! Brats!
Oh, I'm sorry Mrs. Gravel. I'll pay for the window out of my allowance.
Peggy How about my LIFE? Do you get enough allowance to pay for that?! I know you were trying to kill me! What's the matter with the courts? Do they allow this lawlesness and malicious destruction of property to run rampant? I HATE THE SUPREME COURT! [moves away from the window in a rage and throws a vase, breaking it, then moves back to the window] Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some communist day-care center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I HATE YOU!
We killed your husband, and I ain't your maid any more, bitch! I'm yo sister in crime!
Peggy Please, don't sit on me!
Peggy We were raped! Please, give us shelter!
You were raped?!
Peggy You obviously belong in a mental hospital!
Look who's calling the kettle black! She's just upset, now be easy on her!
Peggy I will not! I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as my roommate!
