Desperate Living (1977)

Mink Stole: Peggy Gravel

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Quotes 

• Peggy Gravel : Hello? What number are you calling? You've dialed the wrong number! Sorry? What good is that? How can you ever repay the last thirty seconds you have stolen from my life? I hate you, your husband, your children, and your relatives!

• Peggy Gravel : Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some communist daycare center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!

• Peggy Gravel : Why did you tell me to come this way, Grizelda? You know I hate nature! Look at those disgusting trees, stealing my oxygen. Oh, I can't stand this scenery another minute. All natural forests should be turned into housing developments! I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation. Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?

• Bosley Jr. : [Kids are in the attic playing doctor]  Breathe hard. Do it again.

  Beth : [Giggles as she breathes]  Let me do it to you.

  Peggy Gravel : [Enters room and goes berserk when she sees the kids]  SODOMITES!

  [Rushes to them] 

  Peggy Gravel : CAUGHT RIGHT IN A SEX ORGY! FILTHY! DIRTY! FILTHY!

  Bosley Jr. : [Crying]  We're only playing!

  Peggy Gravel : [Slapping them]  Is that what you learned in private school?

  Beth : Don't, Mother, we're only playing!

  Peggy Gravel : [Hysterically to herself]  NUDE! NUDE! NUDE!

  [Suddenly seriously] 

  Peggy Gravel : You could be pregnant, Beth!

  [to Bosley, Jr] 

  Peggy Gravel : And YOU... I never thought you'd rape your own sister!

  [Suddenly wildly, to no one in particular] 

  Peggy Gravel : OH GOD, THE CHILDREN ARE HAVING SEX!

• Peggy Gravel : [to cop in lingerie]  No, please not a kiss, I swear I'll gag! Mount me if you must but not a kiss!

• Peggy Gravel : Peggy is about to die from being shot up the ass by Mole. Peggy: You're so low you make white trash look positively top drawer!

  Mole McHenry : Mole: Oh, blow it out your ass!

• Peggy Gravel : Go ahead, feel her up! Just like you did to me! Find em, feel em, fuck em, forget em... is THAT your new motto?

  Grizelda Brown : Zip that gaping hole of a mouth up, Peggy, before I plug it up with my fist.

  Peggy Gravel : You're just like all the rest of the common dykes in this town!

• Grizelda Brown : You better calm yourself down before I haul off and smack you upside your wide, wide head. We killed your husband. And I ain't your maid anymore bitch. I'm your sister in crime.

  Peggy Gravel : Please, don't sit on me!

• Peggy Gravel : [to cop in lingerie]  Will you please stop it! I have never found the antics of deviants to be one bit amusing!

• Peggy Gravel : Have I gone to Hell? Is that it? Have I gone straight to Hell?

• Queen Carlotta : Royal proclamation number one!

  [trumpet] 

  Queen Carlotta : As long as you live in Mortville, you must always consider me your god, and if you ever see me on the streets, fall to your knees and shout, "I honor you, Queen Carlotta!" Royal proclamation two!

  [trumpet] 

  Queen Carlotta : You must live here in constant mortification, solely existing to bring me and my tourists moments of royal amusement! I'm not responsible for your income, your living conditions, or your personal happiness. Have I made myself perfectly clear?

  Grizelda Brown : Yes, your royal majesty.

  Queen Carlotta : And you, Mrs. Gravel, murderess?

  Peggy Gravel : You've made yourself quite clear.

  Queen Carlotta : YOUR...?

  Peggy Gravel : Your royal majesty.

  Queen Carlotta : So be it! Lieutenant Williams, take them to our ugly expert and given them a complete overhaul, and when you walk down the streets of Mortville, make sure you're dressed like what you really are -- TRASH!