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LaVona Golden: Call that a clean skate, for Christ's sake?
Skater Mom: Do not swear in front of the kids.
LaVona Golden: I didn't swear, you cunt.
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Tonya Harding: I mean, come on! What kind of friggin' person bashes in their friend's knee? Who would do that to a friend?
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LaVona Golden: You fuck dumb. You don't marry dumb.
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Tonya Harding: Where the fuck are my Dove Bars?
Jeff Gillooly: We can't afford 'em. Eskimo Pie is just as good.
Tonya Harding: I'm America's best figure skater! I don't want friggin' Eskimo Pies.
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Tonya Harding: I was loved for a minute, then I was hated. Then I was just a punch line.
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Tonya Harding: They got 18 months. I'll do that. Your honor. I don't have education. All I know is skating. I'm no one if I'm can't- I'm not this monster. I'm trying to do the best with what I know how to-. It's like you're giving me a life sentence. You can't do that.
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Tonya Harding: It was like being abused all over again. Only this time it was by you. All of you. You're all my attackers too.
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Tonya Harding: Suck my dick!
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Tonya Harding: Look, Nancy gets hit one time and the whole world shits... For me it was an all-the-time occurrence.
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LaVona Golden: So... have you two fucked yet?
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Tonya Harding: [to Jeff] I really think that you should just kill yourself.
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Tonya Harding: America. They want someone to love, they want someone to hate.
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LaVona Golden: You skated like a graceless bull dyke. I was embarrassed for you.
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Tonya Harding: [to camera, immediately after firing a gun at Jeff] This is bullshit. I never did this!
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LaVona Golden: I made you a champion, knowing you'd hate me for it. That's the sacrifice a mother makes! I wish I'd had a mother like me instead of nice. Nice gets you shit! I didn't like my mother either, so what? I fucking gave you a gift!
Tonya Harding: You cursed me.
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Tonya Harding: There's no such thing as truth. It's bullshit. Everyone has their own truth, and life just does whatever the fuck it wants.
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Diane Rawlinson: I'm sorry but there's no smoking on the ice.
LaVona Golden: Oh, then I'll smoke it quietly, then.
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Tonya Harding: I mean it's what you all came for, folks. The fucking incident!
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LaVona Golden: I can see that shiner through that make up, you know.
Tonya Harding: I fell on the ice yesterday.
LaVona Golden: I don't know, Tonnie. I would never be with someone who would fucking hit me.
Tonya Harding: You hit Dad.
LaVona Golden: That's different.
Tonya Harding: Anyway he said he was sorry.
LaVona Golden: You're a dumb piece of shit who thinks she deserves to get hit.
Tonya Harding: I wonder how I got that idea?
LaVona Golden: Maybe he should hit you. Maybe you'd learn to keep your big mouth shut. Sure helps me out.
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Tonya Harding: So I became a lady boxer. I mean why not? Violence was all I knew anyway.
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Tonya Harding: All I did was the hindering of prosecution. What, you're never gonna let me skate again? I mean, I'd rather do the jail time. Please, they only got eighteen months. They got eighteen months, I'll do that. Your honour, I don't have an education. All I know is skating. That's all I know. I am no one if I can't skate.
[starts crying]
Tonya Harding: I mean, I'm not some monster. I'm trying to do my best. It's like you're giving me a life sentence if you do that, you can't do that.
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Tonya Harding: Most people's impression of me? That I'm a real person, you know? I never apologized for growing up poor or being a redneck - which is what I am, you know... and it's a sport where the friggin' judges want you to be this old-timey version of what a woman is supposed to be... for being the first US woman to land a triple axel. So fuck 'em.
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Tonya Harding: [after completing the triple axel] Oh my God, It was totally the most awesomest thing. 'Cause leading up it, you're like, "I can't do it! I can't. I can't!" And then, bam, I can! And all those people who said I couldn't make it, well fuck you! I did!
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Diane Rawlinson: Generally, people either love Tonya or... not big fans. Just like people either love America or they're not big fans. Tonya was... totally American.
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LaVona Golden: Are you a garden or a flower? In every relationship, you're either a garden or a flower. I'm a garden that wants to be a flower, how fucked up am I?
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LaVona Golden: Skate wet!
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Tonya Harding: She just said "Nancy Kerrigan trains at Tuna Can arena". She just said that.
Jeff Gillooly: Ok, well... Who's gonna name an arena "Tuna Can"?
Tonya Harding: Fishermen. Everyone's fishermen in Massachusetts.
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Tonya Harding: Hi Vera, it's Tonya again. Our machine's a piece of crap. Could you just tell me where Nancy Kerrigan trains again?
Tonya Harding: Yeah, I have a stupid bet with Jeff. Spell that for me, hon? What time? Got it. Thanks, Vera.
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Jeff Gillooly: I can't believe it. You gave me up!
Tonya Harding: No, I didn't.
Jeff Gillooly: Yeah, well the FBI showed me your transcript!
Tonya Harding: [throws up her hands] Well, that's just cheating!
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LaVona: You a gardener or a flower, John?
Jeff: Jeff.
LaVona: In a relationship there's a flower and there's a gardener.
Tonya: Mom...
Jeff: Um, I don't know. I never thought...
LaVona: I'm a gardener who wants to be a flower. How fucked am I?
[downs a drink]
LaVona: Tonya won't garden to save her life. You're gonna have to do all the gardening there fella.
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Tonya: Look, Nancy gets hit one time...
Nancy Kerrigan: [cut to file footage] Why? Why?
Tonya: .. and the whole world shits. For me it was an all-the-time occurrence.
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Diane Rawlinson: You okay?
Tonya: Well, My skating career's over. I have no savings. I ended up a waitress like my mom. On the plus side I'm unskilled.
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LaVona: So what do you want from me? Money?
Tonya: God. I just wanted to see you.
LaVona: You're a taker. Every cent I made went to your skating and you took it. What do you want?
Tonya: Well this was a stupid fucking idea. Was anything I ever did good enough for you?
LaVona: You were soft.
Tonya: At three?
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Shawn: People don't take me seriously, Jeff. But I am in control of the situations. I think I proved that.
Jeff: This is out'a control!
Shawn: Relax. Everything's great. Yes. My parents taped over my favorite Star Trek episode to record the CNN, but I'm keeping it together!
Jeff: You're a fucking idiot!
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FBI Agent #1: It's just a formality. We're talking to everyone.
Tonya: We don't know anything.
FBI Agent #2: That must make life difficult.
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[last lines]
Tonya: [narrating] I was the second most known person, behind Bill Clinton, in the world. That meant something. People still wanted to see me. So I became a lady boxer. I mean, why not? Violence was always what I knew anyway. America, you know, they want someone to love - but they want someone to hate. And they want it easy. But what's easy?
Tonya: The haters always say, "Tonya, just tell the truth." But there's no such thing as truth. It's bullshit. Everyone has their own truth. And life just does whatever the fuck it wants.
Tonya: That's the story of my life... . And that's the fucking truth!
I, Tonya Quotes
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