Lisa Rowe [to Susanna]
You think you're free? I'm free! You don't know what freedom is! I'm free! I can breathe! And you - you're gonna go choke on your average ****in' mediocre life!
Most-quoted character in Girl, Interrupted (1999): in 21 of its 32 quotes
Most scenes with: Susanna Kaysen (9), Daisy Randone (3), Nurse Margie (3)
I am going to be the Cinderella at Walt Disney's new theme park, Susanna's gonna be Snow White. You can come if you want, you can be the Cocker Spaniel that eats spaghetti.
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Razors pain you, Rivers are damp / Acid stains you, Drugs cause cramps / Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give / Gas smells awful, Ya might as well live.
Lisa Rowe Note that the poem is a quote from Dorothy Parker's "Résumé" (1925)
Scenes with Lisa Rowe
17 scenes
What the **** are you doing, Lisa?
Lisa Rowe I'm playing the villain, baby, just like you want. I try to give you everything you want.
No you don't.
Lisa Rowe You wanted your file, I found you your file. You wanted out, I got you out. You needed money, I found you some. I'm **** consistent. I told you the truth. I didn't write it down in a **** book! I told you to your face. And I told Daisy to her face - what everybody knew and wouldn't say, and she killed herself. And I played the **** villain, just like you wanted.
Why would I want that?
Lisa Rowe Because it makes you the good guy, sweet pea. You come back here, all sweetness and light, and sad and contrite, and everybody congratulating you on your bravery. And meanwhile, I'm blowing the guys at the bus station for the money that was in her **** robe!
Lisa Rowe Hey, Torch.
Polly Clark Hey, Lisa.
Lisa Rowe Did you miss me?
Polly Clark Not much.
Get out, Lisa!
Lisa Rowe I'm not in your room, Daisy. I'm right **** here. I was gonna offer you nail polish.
GET OUT!
You're looking better, Lisa.
Lisa Rowe Why, thanks Margie. So how's the engagement going?
You know.
Lisa Rowe No, I don't know. I've been away.
Joe wants me to... you know, before the wedding.
Lisa Rowe **** his brains out - use a rubber.
Lisa Rowe So, have you had your first Melvin yet?
Who's that?
Lisa Rowe Bald guy with a little pecker and a fat wife. You're ther-rapist, sweet pea. Unless, uh... unless they're giving you shocks. Or, God forbid, letting you out. Then you get to see the great, wonderful Dr. ****.
She means Dr. Wick.
Oh, I've been in his office, but I haven't met him yet.
M.G. He's a she. Dr. Wick's a girl.
Lisa Rowe That's right, M.G., Wick's a chick.
M.G. Wick's a chick.
Lisa Rowe Hence the nickname.
My dad got me an apartment.
Really? Where?
It's near the airport. One bedroom, two baths, eat-in chicken.
You mean eat-in kitchen.
That's what I said, asshole. So what do you have that I want?
Lisa Rowe [from the door]
Put yours on the bed.
Oh, Jesus! Get out! GET OUT!
Lisa Rowe [Lisa enters and shuts the door behind her]
Come on Dais, don't take advantage of her just because she's new. Pony up some Valium.
Get the **** out of here or I'm calling Valerie! VALERIE!
Lisa Rowe Yeah, why don't you call Valerie, shall we? Let's call Valerie and ask her for some Colace just like Suzie Q's got in her ****in' hand. Why does it stink in here?
Georgina Tuskin Lisa, is Daisy really getting out?
Lisa Rowe Yeah, she coughed up a big one.
But how could - I mean she's... insane.
Lisa Rowe Yeah, well that's what ther-rape-me's all about. That's why ****in' Freud's pictures on every shrink's wall. He created a ****in' industry. You lie down, you confess your secrets and you're saved. Ca-ching! The more you confess, the more they think about settin' you free.
But what if you don't have a secret?
Lisa Rowe Then you're a lifer, like me.
Lisa Rowe [on phone]
So what's your diag-nonsense?
Who is this?
Lisa Rowe What'd he say to Mom and Pop?
[Susanna looks out and sees Lisa staring back at her two booths back]
I have a Borderline Personality.
Lisa Rowe Oh, well that's nothing. What else?
He didn't say. Thought it would affect my recovery.
Lisa Rowe All right, listen. Tongue your meds tonight. After 1 o'clock checks, Gretta always goes out for a smoke. Check the mirrors and if they're clear, you go down to Hector's closet. It's near the art room and it will be open.
Lisa Rowe We are very rare and we are mostly men.
Lisa thinks she's hot shit 'cause she's a sociopath.
Cynthia Crowley I'm a sociopath.
Lisa Rowe No, you're a ****.
[reading from a book]
"Borderline Personality Disorder. An instability of self-image, relationships and moods... uncertainty about goals, impulsive in activities that are self-damaging, such as casual sex."
Lisa Rowe I like that.
"Social contrariness and a generally pessimistic attitude and often observed" Well, that's me.
Lisa Rowe That's everybody.
I mean, what kind of sex isn't casual?
They mean promiscuous.
I'm not promiscuous. I'm not.
Lisa Rowe Lady, back off!
Mrs. Gilcrest
Was I talking to you?
Lisa Rowe No, you were spitting on me, so mellow ****in' out!
Mrs. Cilcrest
Don't you tell me what to do.
Lisa Rowe Look, she gave your husband a rim job. Big ****in' deal! I'm sure he was begging for it, I heard it was like a pencil anyway.
Mrs. Gilcrest
Why you - how dare you!
Lisa Rowe Some advice, okay? Just don't point you ****in' finger at crazy people!
Did you enjoy the fresh air, Lisa?
Lisa Yeah I did, Val. Thanks.
Good, 'cause it's the last time you're leaving the ward.
Lisa Is that a dare or a double dare?
That is not fair. That is not fair! That is not fair! Seventy-four is the perfect weight!
Lisa Rowe [to Daisy]
Good luck, crazy bitch.
Instructor
Now what kind of a tree can you be, Janet, down there on the floor?
I'm a **** shrub, all right?
Lisa Rowe Hey Torch! Whatcha' doin'?
Polly Clark Nothing.
Lisa Rowe Well, why don't you go to your room and do nothing?
[she waves at Polly with puppet, and Polly runs to room crying]
Lisa Rowe [Nurse Margie is doing her checks. Lisa decides to distract her so Susanna can have time with her boyfriend. She wheels in front of Nurse Margie]
Hey Margie!
Hey, Lisa!
Lisa Rowe Watcha doin'?
Checks?
Lisa Rowe How's Joe?
He's fine.
Lisa Rowe [she tries to move around Lisa, but Lisa moves in front of her again]
Yeah...
Lisa, I have to do my checks!
Lisa Rowe Yeah, and what? Taking five minutes for me would be a dereliction of duty?
Lisa Rowe [Nurse Margie tries to move again, Lisa moves in front of her]
Huh? What if I had a punctured artery? What would you do? Would you just keep going about your rounds, ignoring my wounds?
Lisa, stop it!
Lisa Rowe Stop what? You **** piece-
Lisa Rowe [She grabs the pen from the clipboard and holds it to her neck, clicking the pen open]
Look at this! Go ahead!
That's enough!
Lisa Rowe Take one ****in' step and I'll jam this in my aorta! GO AHEAD!
[Nurse Valerie comes over, a smirk on her face]
Lisa...your aorta is in your chest.
Lisa Rowe [Lisa clicks the pen shut and gives it back to Nurse Margie]
Good to know! I'll make a note of that...
Good.
You're just jealous, Lisa... because I got better... because I was released... because I have a chance... at a life.
Lisa Rowe They didn't release you 'cause you're better, Daisy, they just gave up. You call this a life, hmm? Taking Daddy's money, buying your dollies and your knickknacks. And eating his ****in' chicken, fattening up like a prize ****in' heifer. You changed the scenery, but not the ****in' situation, and the warden makes housecalls. And everybody knows, everybody knows that he ****s you. What they don't know is that you like it, hmm? You like it.
Lisa Rowe Hey, man, it's cool, it's okay. It's fine, it's **** fine! A man is a dick is a man is a dick is a chicken... is a dad... a Valium, a speculum, whatever, whatever. [to Daisy] You like being Mrs. Randone. Probably all you've ever known.
Have fun in Florida. [goes upstairs to her room]
Lisa Rowe You know, there's too many buttons in the world. There's too many buttons and they're just - there's way too many just begging to be pressed, they're just begging to be pressed, you know? They're just - they're just begging to be pressed! And it makes me wonder, it really makes me **** wonder, why doesn't anyone ever press mine? Why am I so neglected? Why doesn't anyone reach in and rip out the truth and tell me that I'm a **** whore, or that my parents wish I were dead?
Because you're dead already, Lisa! No one cares if you die, Lisa, because you're dead already. Your heart is cold. That's why you keep coming back here. You're not free. You need this place to feel alive. It's pathetic.
Lisa Rowe [Lisa's arms and legs are strapped to the bed. Susanna takes out nail polish and starts painting Lisa's nails] [crying]
I'm not really dead.
I know.
Lisa Rowe I'm gonna miss you, Suzie Q.
No, you're not. You're going get out of here, and you're gonna come and see me. Okay?
Lisa Rowe [takes a deep breath and looks away]
Yeah.
