Patty Hearst (1988)

Natasha Richardson: Patricia Hearst

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• Patricia Hearst : Never doubted my ability to handle myself well in any circumstance. Of course, there is little one can do to prepare for the unknown.

• Patricia Hearst : The important thing is the struggle.

  Cinque : Why should we take you? What good are you - to us?

  Patricia Hearst : I know the enemy. I'm the expert.

• Patricia Hearst : [to Cinque]  I'm really struggling to overcome my bourgeois upbringing.

• Teko : [after a mock gunfight]  Draw. You're dead.

  Patricia Hearst : [whining]  I'm always dead! It's just not fair, you know.

• Patricia Hearst : Concentrate one day at a time. False hopes and fantasies don't help one bit.

• Cinque : My name is Cin.

  Patricia Hearst : Like the devil?

  Cinque : Cinque. I'm the General Field Marshall of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

  Patricia Hearst : What's that?

  Cinque : Everybody know about the SLA.

• Cinque : Any trouble from you and we hang you from the ceiling by your feet like the dead *pig* you are. Barnyard slaughter. And don't be thinking rescue, baby. FBI come, you get our first bullet. Police come, you go. Dead twigs snap outside, dogs bark, birds sing - *oink*!

  Patricia Hearst : When will you let me go?

• Cinque : There's a revolution going on in this country. The people have declared war on the fascist American government. The Revolution is happening right now, bitch! In good ole fascist A-mer-i-ca!

  Patricia Hearst : Against me?

• Gelina : Everyone in the Cell feels much closer to you now. And part of being in a Cell, is being comradely to the other people. I feel so sorry for you, being around us and not being able to join in. Don't you have sexual feelings?

  Patricia Hearst : Of course.

  Gelina : Cujo wants to get is on with you.

• Patricia Hearst : Don't examine your feelings. Never examine your feelings. They're no help at all.

• Patricia Hearst : Say, the other units - are they going to help us rob the bank?

  Cinque : What other units? This is it, baby. We the whole army.

• Patricia Hearst : Yesterday, Yolanda kissed me on my mouth. Today, she watches my every gesture. My old life slips further and further away. Crush every part of you that was Patty Hearst. Think before you speak.

• Patricia Hearst : Thousands of dollars from a bakery?

  Gelina : A bank. We call it a bakery because that's were the bread is.

• Cinque : See that.

  Patricia Hearst : What?

  Cinque : At this hour, it could be pigs. Undercover pigs pretending to be queers.

• Teko : Listen. I've been thinking that - maybe its time you and me get together.

  Patricia Hearst : What?

  Teko : I have a need. Its the comradely thing to do. Right, comrade?

  Patricia Hearst : Right.

  Teko : Come on. Come on.

• Gelina : Of course, there's a kind of pattern. Cin mostly sleeps with me. Sometimes he makes it with Fahizah, who adores him. Or, Yolanda. Yo also sleeps with Teko, who used to be her husband. I mean, well, they're still married, but, marriage is such bourgeois bull shit. Right?

  Patricia Hearst : Right.

  Gelina : Or, Teko will fuck Zoya. Or, all three of them together. Or, just Zoya and Yolanda. Cujo mostly masturbates. He also fucks Zoya. Gabi, who was Zoya's lover on the outside, still makes it with Zoya when Zoya lets her; but, does not too often. So, Gabi is pretty frustrated. Basically, sex is a low priority. We're just too tired.

  Patricia Hearst : Right.

• Teko : Great. Perfect. No gas. No electricity.

  Patricia Hearst : Sounds great.

  Yolanda : At last! We're really poor.

• Patricia Hearst : [referring to Yolanda and Teko]  It seems like you have a kind of exclusive relationship.

  Yolanda : I do not! I fuck who I want.

  Teko : Yeah. Anybody..

  Yolanda : Well, I got to get off with somebody.

  Teko : You see what you do. Do you see what you do to this team?

  Patricia Hearst : I'm sorry.

  Yolanda : It's Teko's fault. He's still crippled by sexism.

• Teko : You know what the newspapers say?

  Yolanda : You really joined us now.

  Teko : Only, we don't believe you.

  Patricia Hearst : Why? What do we have to do?

  Yolanda : We want you to know.

  Teko : We're watching you.

  Yolanda : You think you're fooling us?

  Teko : You're not.

  Yolanda : One day you're going to fuck up.

  Teko : We're going to blow your fucking brains out.

  Cinque : Lighten up! You no more bourgeois than you two suckers.

• Patricia Hearst : You should have seen it. I saved my comrades. There were bullets flying everywhere. People screaming. It was like "Starsky and Hutch".

• [last lines] 

  Patricia Hearst : Pardon my French, Dad, but, fuck them. Fuck them all.

• Patricia Hearst : I'm trying to get into condition. I really am. There's no place for selfishness or weakness in the Revolution.

• Patricia Hearst : I finally figured out what my crime was.

  Randolph A. Hearst : There was none. You were kidnapped.

  Patricia Hearst : Yes, but, I lived. Big mistake. Emotionally messy.

• Patricia Hearst : I'm not sure what happened to me.

• Booking Officer : Name?

  Patricia Hearst : Patricia Campbell Hearst.

  Booking Officer : Occupation? Occupation? You gotta have an occupation.

  Patricia Hearst : [smiles]  Urban Guerrilla.

• Patricia Hearst : I want to confront peoples prejudices about me. I'm a woman and I had - I was forced to have sex with my captors. So, they think I'm a whore. See, people fantasized about me so long they thought they knew me. When I finally surfaced: real person, real story. I was inconvenient. But, I'm here - and I'll let 'em know it, too.

• Patricia Hearst : Only blacks can lead the struggle. Whites can't be trusted because historically they've been traitors.

• Teko : We got to be ready when the pigs come surround the house.

  Wendy Yoshimura : If they do, I'm giving up.

  Patricia Hearst : They shoot on sight.

  Wendy Yoshimura : I'll take my chances.

  Teko : End up in pig concentration camp. They'll torture you. Maybe kill you.

  Wendy Yoshimura : Joe's there! They haven't tortured or killed him.