Frankie and Johnny (1991)

Michelle Pfeiffer: Frankie

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Quotes 

• Johnny : You don't have to be afraid anymore.

  Frankie : I am. I'm afraid. I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know, I'm just so tired of being afraid.

• Frankie : Why do you want to kill yourself sometimes?

  Johnny : I want to kill myself sometimes when I think that I'm the only person in the world and that part of me that feels that way is trapped inside this body, that only bumps into other bodies, without ever connecting to the only other person in the world trapped inside of them. We have to connect. We just have to.

• Johnny : I think we should get married and have kids.

  Frankie : [hysterical]  I don't like kids!

  Johnny : I don't believe that.

  Frankie : [pause]  I can't have any! Are you happy now?

• [doorbell rings] 

  Tim : Are you expecting someone?

  Frankie : No.

  [doorbell rings again] 

  Frankie : Hello, who is it?

  Johnny : Frankie?

  Frankie : Johnny?

  Tim : Ooh, I just got goosebumps.

• Johnny : So, how about you? Do you ever want to kill yourself sometimes?

  Frankie : Yeah, everybody wants to kill themselves sometime.

• Frankie : Why are you doing this?

  Johnny : Everything I want is in this room.

• Frankie : [Johnny carves a rose out of a potato and gives it to Frankie]  What is *that?*

  Johnny : A rose. It grew in the kitchen.

• Frankie : [shows Johnny a scar on her neck]  The man I was with... he did this with a belt buckle. He's the reason I can't have kids. He, uh... he knocked me around while I was... pregnant.

  [begins crying] 

  Frankie : I lost the baby.

  Johnny : [gently kisses the scar]  It's gone.

  Frankie : It'll never be gone.

• Johnny : [Waiting for Frankie]  I have a cousin who's gay, by the way.

  Tim : Oh, most people do.

  Frankie : Ready!

  Johnny : He's a really great guy.

  Tim : I'm sure.

  Johnny : He just found out he was gay a couple of months ago.

  Tim : Well, I'll look him up in the directory. Under the new entries.

• [last lines] 

  Frankie : I'm thirty-six.

• Frankie : I'm a BLT down sort of person, and I think you're looking for someone a little more pheasant under glass.

• Johnny : Raw eggs, coming up!

  Frankie : Not raw! Runny!

• Frankie : [joking with Jorge]  Hey Jorge, the immigration!

  [a group of people run out of the cafe in a hurry] 

  Frankie : No! I didn't mean it!

• Frankie : I don't date, by choice.

  Tim : Too bad, because I love your choices. We went from Mr. Abuse You to Mr. Use You, plus a Christmas fling with a cross-dresser that I blew the whistle on, thank you very much.

• Frankie : [Frantically preparing for Johnny to come to the door]  Wait, wait! Who are you going to tell him you are?

  Tim : The man who shot Liberty Valance.

• Frankie : You know, sometimes you're fucking obnoxious.

  Johnny : I'm not obnoxious, I'm just eager to go out with you. That's a big difference.

• Frankie : [trying on dresses]  I'm too old for this shit.

  Tim : Oh, come on...

  [Frankie poses with an austere black dress held in front of her] 

  Tim : Ugh. I don't think so. You'll look like an Italian widow.

• Frankie : [checks herself before opening door]  I look like the bread girl!