Dallas (TV Series)
Black Market Baby (1978)
Talia Balsam: Rita Briggs
Quotes
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Sue Ellen Ewing : [picking up portrait] You look very pretty in your bathing suit.
Rita Briggs : Give me that!
[rushing down stairs]
Rita Briggs : Who said you could go through my things?
[grabs portrait]
Sue Ellen Ewing : Well, I'm sorry.
Rita Briggs : You spent a couple of bucks on me, you think... you think you can... own me?
Sue Ellen Ewing : That's from a beauty contest, isn't it?
Rita Briggs : Maybe.
Sue Ellen Ewing : I was in a beauty pageant once.
Rita Briggs : Oh, yeah? Which one?
Sue Ellen Ewing : Miss Texas.
Rita Briggs : So big deal. I... I was in the Miss... Teen Texas one.
Sue Ellen Ewing : How did you do?
Rita Briggs : I was voted Miss Congeniality.
[almost spelling that out]
Rita Briggs : That means they liked me.
[Sue Ellen smiles]
Rita Briggs : How did you do?
Sue Ellen Ewing : Well, I was, uh, voted Miss Texas.
Rita Briggs : [nods] I knew it. I knew it! I... You always get what you want, don't you?
Sue Ellen Ewing : Well, I didn't get Miss America.
[scoffs]
Sue Ellen Ewing : I didn't even make it to the finals.
Rita Briggs : Did you cry?
Sue Ellen Ewing : [nods] Yeah. I cried for three days.
Rita Briggs : [sad smirk, nods] I... I cried when I lost, too.
Sue Ellen Ewing : [reaching out to the girl who is now subdued] Uh, why don't we have a little lunch?
Rita Briggs : [pushes hand away] Look, Mrs. Ewing, you don't gotta keep hanging around here, you know?
Sue Ellen Ewing : I know. But I want to. Let's go.