White Oleander (film) Quotes

White Oleander (film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . White Oleander stopped airing in 1970.

It features Hunt Lowry as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Elliot Davis (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

White Oleander (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of White Oleander (film) is 109 minutes long. White Oleander (film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Patrick Fugit as Paul, Alison Lohman as Astrid, Michelle Pfeiffer as Ingrid, Robin Wright as Starr, Renée Zellweger as Claire Richards, Svetlana Efremova as Rena, and Billy Connolly as Ray.

White Oleander (film) Quotes

Alison Lohman as Astrid

• (Alison Lohman) "How long were you gone?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "About a year, give or take a few months."
• (Alison Lohman) "My God."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back."
• (Alison Lohman) "You should have been sterilized."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing. When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along."
• (Alison Lohman) "I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Are you still waiting?"
• (Alison Lohman) "No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind."
• (Alison Lohman) "You were in love with him."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap."
• (Alison Lohman) "Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "I didn't leave him. He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old."
• (Alison Lohman) "He came to see me?"
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?"
• (Alison Lohman) "Because it wasn't about you. It was about me, and I wanted to see him. My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "No. No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go."
• (Alison Lohman) "Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "If I could, I'd take it all back. I would."
• (Alison Lohman) "Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was."

• (Alison Lohman) "Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn't understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing, too much you would never tell. I could sell these things. People want to buy them, but I'd set all this on fire first. She'd like that, that's what she would do. She'd make it just to burn it. I couldn't afford this one, but the beginning deserves something special. But how do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky, has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don't know how to express the being with someone so dangerous is the last time I felt safe --"

• (Alison Lohman) "There's nothing wrong with being a Christian."
• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Are you out of your mind? How did this happen? I raised you, not a pack of Bible-thumping trailer trash. I raised you to think for yourself."
• (Alison Lohman) "No you didn't. You raised me to think like you."

• (Alison Lohman) "The Next time you and your friends jump me, I'll cut your throats when you're sleeping."

• (Alison Lohman) "You look at me mother and you don't like what you see. But this is the price -- the price of belonging to you."

• (Alison Lohman) "But --"
• (Robin Wright) "Don't "But" me. He is a man, and he sees what he sees, and does what he can."

• (Alison Lohman) "My mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was also the most dangerous."

• (Alison Lohman) "Looks don't interest me."
• (Patrick Fugit) "That's easy for you to say, you've never been ugly."

• (Alison Lohman) "You look at me, and you don't like what you see. But this is the price, Mother; the price of belonging to you."

• (Alison Lohman) "Never let a man spend the night, she said. Never apologize, never explain. She was breaking all her rules, and it would change everything."

• (Alison Lohman) "You're either an artist or you're not. You are."

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ingrid

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "I made you. I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go"
• (Alison Lohman) "Then let me go"

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Of course I was jealous. I live in a cell with a women who has a vocabulary of 25 words."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself -- know what you want."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "You don't go anywhere until I let you go."
• (Alison Lohman) "Then let me go."

Robin Wright as Starr

• (Robin Wright) "Astrid, those are ugly shoes."
• (Alison Lohman) "Snakes don't bite above ankle."
• (Robin Wright) "Well, take my word for it, you better being bitten by snakes then dressin' for them."

• (Robin Wright) "He who believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall live. And don't you forget it, missy."

Renée Zellweger as Claire Richards

• (Renée Zellweger) "Take my advice and stay away from broken people."

• (Renée Zellweger) "What was the best day of your life?"
• (Alison Lohman) "Today."

Patrick Fugit as Paul

• (Patrick Fugit) "What happened?"
• (Alison Lohman) "She let me go."

• (Patrick Fugit) "I was born addicted to heroin."
• (Alison Lohman) "And what was that like?"
• (Patrick Fugit) "I don't know; I was out of rehab by the time I was six months old."

Billy Connolly as Ray

• (Billy Connolly) "My opinion is if there is a god he sure as hell ain't worth prayin' to."

Svetlana Efremova as Rena

• (Svetlana Efremova) "Workers of the world arise. You've got nothing to lose but Visa card, happy meal, and Kotex with wings."

• (Svetlana Efremova) "You're a stupid girl, you walk away from money to punish mother?"

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