Shattered Innocence Quotes

Shattered Innocence is a television show that first aired in 1988 on CBS. Shattered Innocence completed its run in 1970.

It features Milton Sperling as producer, Richard Bellis as composer, and Michael D. Margulies as head of cinematography.

Shattered Innocence is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Shattered Innocence is 93 minutes long. Shattered Innocence is produced by Lorimar Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television (syndication).

The cast includes: Jonna Lee as Pauleen Anderson, Melinda Dillon as Sharon, Dennis Howard as Del, Stephen Schnetzer as Danny, Kris Kamm as Cory Parker, Melissa Michaelsen as Patricia, Lucky Hayes as Susan, Nadine van der Velde as Nora, Richard Cox as Brad Pullman, Mark Gluckman as Roy, Randy Hamilton as Vince, Sheila Lane-Limon as Carolyn, and John Pleshette as Mel Erman.

Shattered Innocence Quotes

Melissa Michaelsen as Patricia

• (Melissa Michaelsen) "I saw your pictures."
• (Jonna Lee) "What pictures?"
• (Melissa Michaelsen) "In a magazine. They were circulating all over school. I handled it okay, I guess, but Lisa and Ann had a rough time. They got mad and Pat made it worse."
• (Jonna Lee) "But you didn't get mad?"
• (Melissa Michaelsen) "I didn't show it."
• (Jonna Lee) "But you were?"
• (Melissa Michaelsen) "Of course I was. Wouldn't you be mad if a bunch of guys were doing obscene things to pictures of me?"

Jonna Lee as Pauleen Anderson

• (Jonna Lee) "She dreams of mountains majestic and high, but she wakens to flatness beneath the sky. She reaches for something she can't explain, but they make her come in when she stands in the rain. She has hopes and wishes, she asks, she tries. But when she's alone she cries, she cries. She dreams of mountains she does not know. She needs to see them, she has to go."

• (Jonna Lee) "Did you enjoy it when you did it?"
• (Nadine van der Velde) "I enjoy sex."
• (Jonna Lee) "I don't much. Not even with Brad -- or Cory."
• (Jonna Lee) "I deserved every penny of that money."

• (Jonna Lee) "You said nude and semi-nude."

• (Jonna Lee) "You better get used to me being naked, because I'm gonna be on the January issue of Penthouse."

Sheila Lane-Limon as Carolyn

• (Sheila Lane-Limon) "Listen, I know you're scared. I was the first time, too."
• (Jonna Lee) "I feel nauseous."
• (Sheila Lane-Limon) "You wanna try some of this?"
• (Jonna Lee) "Thanks."

Stephen Schnetzer as Danny

• (Stephen Schnetzer) "Oh, they're your fans, honey, they love you. But it's not you, remember? It's Lara Dawn."
• (Jonna Lee) "It is me. It was me out there and it's me in those films."

John Pleshette as Mel Erman

• (John Pleshette) "You okay?"
• (Jonna Lee) "Oh, I fine. Just a nosebleed. Dr. Packett says there's allergies. The desert air dries up my membranes."
• (John Pleshette) "I'm closing the cupboard."
• (John Pleshette) "No more coke for you."
• (Jonna Lee) "It's the desert air."
• (John Pleshette) "You think you're talking to some farmer on the back forty? You burned a hole in your nose."
• (Jonna Lee) "I don't do that much."
• (John Pleshette) "I'm cutting you off."
• (Jonna Lee) "Mel, that is not fair."
• (John Pleshette) "It's the best I can do."
• (Jonna Lee) "Fine. I'll just move the hell out of here."
• (John Pleshette) "And do what, go back to pornos? That's what you wanna do with your life, go ahead. Do it."

Melinda Dillon as Sharon

• (Melinda Dillon) "Who did this to you? Pauleen? Pauleen. Why?"

• (Melinda Dillon) "Pauleen, now you got to understand something: these things you've done, they just don't disappear because you want them to. I mean, the pictures are still around, and even if they weren't, people don't forget so quickly."
• (Jonna Lee) "You mean you don't? You were embarrassed to be seen of me."
• (Melinda Dillon) "That is not true."
• (Jonna Lee) "Yes it is, and you know it. I'm an embarrassment to you, to this family, and this entire town."

• (Melinda Dillon) "We should never have given her an ultimatum."
• (Dennis Howard) "What could we could, Sharon? Ground her? We don't have that power anymore."
• (Melinda Dillon) "God only knows where she is and what she's doing."
• (Dennis Howard) "She's alright. It's, uh, it's a phase."
• (Melinda Dillon) "Oh, Lord, it's not a phase. She's not putting glitter on her fingernails and dyeing her hair green; she's taking her clothes off. You can't dismiss that."
• (Dennis Howard) "I'm not trying to dismiss it; I'm trying to be realistic."
• (Melinda Dillon) "Realistic? Driving her away is no more realistic than walking away."
• (Dennis Howard) "I did what I thought was right."
• (Melinda Dillon) "I know you did."
• (Dennis Howard) "Then why try and make me feel guilty about it?"
• (Melinda Dillon) "I'm sorry."
• (Dennis Howard) "I know Pauleen. She'll get homesick real fast."
• (Melinda Dillon) "You want to talk realistic? Del, you don't know Pauleen. For the first ten years of her life, you were not home to get to know her."
• (Melinda Dillon) "And then when you came home to work, you didn't get to know her; you were never around. She's still a little girl with stars in her eyes to you. But she's not; she's grown up and she's grown away, and she's stubborn when she gets an idea in her head. Nothing can shake it. She can find all kinds of justifications, even if she has to manufacture them. And that scares me, and that's your reality."

• (Melinda Dillon) "What's wrong with her?"
• (Dennis Howard) "She's growing up."
• (Melinda Dillon) "She's growing away."

Kris Kamm as Cory Parker

• (Kris Kamm) "You dumb broad. You're just gonna get sweet-talked out of your pants with every guy that comes along."
• (Jonna Lee) "Get out of here."
• (Kris Kamm) "Don't be stupid. Get in the car."
• (Jonna Lee) "GET OUT."

Mark Gluckman as Roy

• (Mark Gluckman) "Don't overdo it. Not too much fear. He's standing there naked. I don't wanna rape; I wanna seduction."

Randy Hamilton as Vince

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Lucky Hayes as Susan

• (Lucky Hayes) "Maybe you think because your father's a supervisor, you can do what you want. Well, I have been at this job for 14 years, and we're gonna see who they're gonna listen to. I'm talking to Mary about this."

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