Bound (1996)

Jennifer Tilly: Violet

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• [last lines] 

  Corky : You know what the difference is between you and me, Violet?

  Violet : No.

  Corky : Me neither.

• Caesar : What did she do to you?

  Violet : Everything you couldn't.

• Violet : I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

• Caesar : You don't wanna shoot me, Vi. Do ya. Do ya? I know you don't.

  Violet : Caesar, you don't know shit.

• Corky : What are you doing?

  Violet : Isn't it obvious? I'm trying to seduce you.

  Corky : Why?

  Violet : Because I want... to. I've wanted to ever since I saw you that day in the elevator. I know you don't believe me, but I can prove it to you. You can't believe what you see. But you can believe... what you feel. I've been thinking about you all day.

• Corky : You planned this whole thing. You dropped that earring down the sink on purpose, didn't you?

  Violet : If I say yes, will you take your hand away?

  Corky : No.

  Violet : Yes.

• Violet : Try not to steal anything on your way out...

• Violet : That's a great tattoo. Beautiful labrys. Are you surprised I know what it is?

  Corky : Maybe.

  Violet : I have a tattoo. Would you like to see it?

• Violet : You seem uncomfortable. Do I make you nervous, Corky?

  Corky : No.

  [drinks from beer bottle] 

  Violet : Thirsty, maybe?

• Violet : We're not that different, Corky.

  Corky : Ah, let's see. This is the part where you tell me what matters is on the inside, and that inside of you there's a little dyke just like me.

  Violet : No, she's nothing like you. She's a whole lot smarter than you are.

• Corky : So what are you saying? You don't have sex with men?

  Violet : I don't.

  Corky : Oh, for Christ's sake, Violet, I heard you. Thin walls, remember?

• Violet : Shelly knows what I am. He saw me in a bar with another woman.

  Corky : Yeah, I suppose he just wants to watch.

• Corky : So, Caesar works for the Mafia?

  Violet : It's funny. Nobody really calls it that anymore. Caesar just calls it "the Business."

• Violet : I want what's mine; I want half the money. We get rid of Micky, and no one else dies. No one. Say, "Yes, I understand."

  Caesar : Yes, I unnerstan'.

• [Caesar is aiming his gun at Corky, who is tied up - 'bound' as the title has it] 

  Caesar : God. I should have seen this coming the minute I met you. Everybody knows your kind can't be trusted. Fucking queers make me sick. But you made a fatal mistake. You tried fucking the wrong guy. And I swear to you that I'm going to kill you for it. Where's my money?

  Violet : Don't tell him.

  Caesar : Shut up, Violet!

  Violet : He can't kill you.

  Caesar : [He aims the gun at Violet]  Violet!

  Violet : Not until he has the money.

  [He fires the gun at the wall behind Violet to scare and silence her] 

  Caesar : Now. Where is it?

  Corky : Lick me.

  Caesar : Where is my money?

  Corky : Either pull the trigger or get that fucking thing out of my face.

• Violet : We make our own choices, we pay our own prices.

• Corky : For me, stealing's always been a lot like sex. Two people who want the same thing: they get in a room, they talk about it. They start to plan. It's kind of like flirting. It's kind of like... foreplay, 'cause the more they talk about it, the wetter they get. The only difference is, I can fuck someone I've just met. But to steal? I need to know someone like I know myself.

  Violet : You think you know me like that?

• Violet : Caesar, I'm leaving.

  Caesar : What? Oh, come on, I didn't use one of the good towels.

• Violet : Oh, Johnnie hits on me all the time. He hits on anything in high heels.

• Violet : Gino doesn't speak much English, or at least he pretends not to.

• Violet : They're just cops.

• Violet : [to Corky]  Hold the elevator. Thanks.

• Violet : I have this image of you - inside of me - like a part of me.