Lovelace (2013)

Amanda Seyfried: Linda

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• Linda : You know I spent exactly seventeen days in the pornography industry and somehow these seventeen days are suppose to define who I am for the rest of my life, but I hope that people can see me for who I really am. I mean Linda Lovelace was a fictitious character. My name is Linda Marchiano. I can finally be myself. I'm a mother and a wife and that is where I found my joy.

• Linda : I had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor, but it didn't start out like you're describing. He was a gentleman when I first met him. He was always opening doors for me and lighting my cigarettes and he was very charming when he wanted to be... and I was young, you know, I was twenty-one when I went to live with him... and it wasn't until after that, that things just started to change. He started talking about different sexual things, things that I had never heard of before, things that I - I couldn't imagine, you know? I didn't want to. I was raised... I was raised to obey my husband, to please him for better or for worse... so that's what I did.

• Chuck : You lost us a movie deal tonight. Just sittin' up on stage, taking bows like - Princess "Fuckin'" Grace.

  Linda : I'm sorry, Chuck.

  Chuck : Fifty, maybe a hundred thousand.

  Linda : To do another fuck film?

  Chuck : No, Linda, it's Shakespeare. I told them you do a great English accent, particularly with a cock down your throat.

• Linda : Who's the real Linda Lovelace?

• Chuck : Some girls were turning tricks out back.

  Linda : What do you mean - like prostitution?

  Chuck : Yeah. Linda, it's a tittie bar. What do you think - these girls live off minimum wage?

• Chuck : Come on.

  Linda : I don't want to.

  Chuck : You know, maybe that's because you're not any good at it. Come on, you're going to love it.

  Linda : Really?

  Chuck : Yeah.

  Linda : I'll like it? Choking myself?

  Chuck : I could teach you. Remember how I got you to quit smoking?

  Linda : Yeah. You gonna hypnotize me?

  Chuck : Its the same mind-body control technique. Yeah? Outta sight! Ah! Okay, your mind has control. Come on. A little more. There you go. Take it in. That's right. Don't forget to breathe.

• Linda : I've never done it with a married man before.

  Chuck : Me neither.

  Linda : Good.

• Dolly : When you get to be my age in this business, it helps to have as many skills as you can.

  Linda : I don't have any skills.

  Dolly : That's not what I heard!

• Harry Reems : Linda? Harry. We're getting it on in the next scene.

  Linda : Oh! Hey, its nice to meet you. I thought your name was Dick?

  Harry Reems : My stage name used to be Dick Long. But, it sounded kinda obvious, so, you know.

  Linda : Yeah. I agree.

  Harry Reems : It's a great business, isn't it? Anyway, I just thought I'd come by and introduce myself before we started going at it.

• Thomas - Photographer : I don't think for the movie poster we can be so - anatomical.

  Linda : I just don't want to disappoint anybody.

• Thomas - Photographer : Tell me about the role you're playing.

  Linda : A girl who's clit...

  Thomas - Photographer : I know all that.

  Linda : Okay.

  Thomas - Photographer : Tell me about the person - you're playing.

  Linda : Well, at first I'm - closed up - like a flower bud.

  Thomas - Photographer : Yeah?

  Linda : And - and then, gradually, the petals start to - to open. And - and then, I finally learn about about myself. And I learn - how to - to enjoy sex.

  Thomas - Photographer : Beautiful.

  Linda : And I feel free.

• Gerry Damiano : Cut! Cut! Cut! Whoa, Harry? What's a matter? What's happening?

  Harry Reems : I - I - I

  Linda : He came.

  Gerry Damiano : He what? He came? You came? Get outta here. What is this? Your Junior Prom?

  Harry Reems : I know - I didn't - I just wasn't - I - Just give me three minutes. I can go again.

  Linda : I'm really sorry. Did I do something wrong?

  Gerry Damiano , Butchie Peraino , Anthony Romano : No!

  Gerry Damiano : Sweetie.

  Gerry Damiano , Butchie Peraino , Anthony Romano : No! No.

• Harry Reems : You okay?

  Linda : I'm a little nervous. I never had lines to talk before.

  Harry Reems : We got the best job in the world. We just tune everybody out and live in the moment, like we're the only two people on the planet.

  Linda : Tune everybody out. Live in the moment.

  Harry Reems : Exactly. You're gonna do great. And I can't wait to get it on.

• Hugh Hefner : I think you can be a star. I don't mean just an adult movie star. I mean - a real star.

  Linda : Oh, I wish I could believe that.

• Linda : He controlled everything. I never saw a penny. Not even after we moved to Malibu.

• Hugh Hefner : Linda!

  Chuck : That's what I call a welcoming committee. Right on.

  Hugh Hefner : Linda.

  Linda : Hi, Mr. Hefner.

  Hugh Hefner : Hef, please. Welcome to your party.

  [to Chuck] 

  Hugh Hefner : How about I trade you two blondes for a brunette?

  Chuck : Yeah!

• Lie Detector Operator : Just answer yes or no. Is your name Linda Lovelace?

  Linda : Can we start with an easier question?

• Feminist Journalist : How does it feel to be the poster girl for the Sexual Revolution?

  Linda : It's just a goof. To me it's - it's a movie. Like any other movie, only it has so many better things in it.

  Feminist Journalist : Like what?

  Linda : Like me.