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Chuck: But tomorrow's Linda's big day. She needs me. Send somebody else.
Butchie Peraino: OK. How about I send Linda for the film, and you can spend tomorrow with Harry's cock down your throat?
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Butchie Peraino: [Eating oysters] You know, these are natural aphrodisiacs, honey.
Dolly: Yeah?
Butchie Peraino: Yeah, they make you horny.
Dolly: I'm always horny.
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Chuck: [to Anthony Romano] This isn't small-time. I'm meeting this guy at Hef's party, OK? This guy, he owns half the adult bookstores on the West Coast. Millions in merchandise. Linda, like, sweet talks this guy, right? Or better yet, she sweet sucks this guy... we're made in the shade!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Linda: Who's the real Linda Lovelace?
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Chuck: A foxy girl like you should love to show off her body. Come on. Come on. Let me see it. Come on. Let me see it.
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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.
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Linda: I've never done it with a married man before.
Chuck: Me neither.
Linda: Good.
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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?
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Gerry Damiano: Chuck, she's really cute. She's adorable. She's like a - a sexy Raggedy Ann or something. I really dug her freckles.
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Gerry Damiano: The point is, we traffic in fantasy here. Yeah, she's very *real*. The kind of girl you sit next to in class, you see her out in the street, you wanna ball her. But, you know, you've seen the girls that come in and do this now. I mean, they've all been to the surgeon. I mean, you can't light your cigarette around 'em, you're afraid there tits are gonna blow up like the Hindenburg or something.
Chuck: Linda has tits.
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Gerry Damiano: It's not like the old days, you know, where you just point a camera at two people screwin' and you call it art. I mean, the audience is expecting a lot more. She's beautiful, but, you know, more pizzazz. We need more pizzazz.
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Butchie Peraino: Now, this is the prototype. Right? People want blonde hair, *huge* tits, and a nice, beautiful, round ass. Its the harsh reality of our chosen profession.
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Butchie Peraino: Chuck, we are making a movie here. On 35 millimeter. Gerry even wrote a script.
Gerry Damiano: Forty-two pages.
Butchie Peraino: Did you hear that? Forty-two fuckin' pages. This thing is gonna be in theaters and people want what they want.
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Butchie Peraino: Chuck, your girl, she's cute, she's skinny, she's got no hips. It's like makin' a war movie without the fight.
Gerry Damiano: Tits and ass - that's the action!
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Gerry Damiano: Did you see this? Look at this. Look at this. Do you see this?
Butchie Peraino: No shit.
Gerry Damiano: Oh!
Butchie Peraino: Wait. Is that real?
Gerry Damiano: Is she actually doin' that?
Chuck: Yeah. Right.
Gerry Damiano: Oh my God!
Butchie Peraino: Could she do that with a big cock? No offense.
Chuck: She could do that with anything.
Gerry Damiano: That's far out. That is - you see that? That is art, baby. That is art.
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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!
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Anthony Romano: Sweetheart, let me tell you something, if what these guys are saying is true, this is gonna be the best investment of my life. I can't wait to see your work.
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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.
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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.
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Butchie Peraino: We're all gonna win Oscars.
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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.
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Butchie Peraino: That girl should be in the fuckin' Olympics.
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Thomas - Photographer: I don't think for the movie poster we can be so - anatomical.
Linda: I just don't want to disappoint anybody.
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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.
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Butchie Peraino: Alright, alright, alright.
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Butchie Peraino: A girl like Linda - you want to see her name in lights. Linda Lovelace. That's got to go up on a billboard, right? Lovely lace. Lovelace.
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Butchie Peraino: Chuck, your girl is gonna be a star. That's the value, man. And you - you own the product.
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Butchie Peraino: Did you hear about Goldstein? His magazine gave us 100% on the Peter Meter. Looks like we got a full-blown, *big* titted hit!
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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.
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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!
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Hugh Hefner: You, Harry. I'm a big fan of your work.
Harry Reems: It is truly an honor, sir.
Hugh Hefner: Well, I used to tell people that *I* had the best job in the world, until I saw what you do.
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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.
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Hugh Hefner: Ladies and gentlemen, the moment we've all been waiting for. The one, the only: Linda Lovelace.
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Lie Detector Operator: Just answer yes or no. Is your name Linda Lovelace?
Linda: Can we start with an easier question?
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Dorothy Boreman: God gave you a husband. He provides for you. And *you* - look at me - go home to Chuck. Be a good wife. Listen to him - and obey him.
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Linda: He controlled everything. I never saw a penny. Not even after we moved to Malibu.
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Chuck: It's America, man. Why wouldn't I want my name on the side of a dildo?
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Chuck: She's a brand name. She's like Betty "Fuckin'" Crocker.
Anthony Romano: No, she's Linda "Fuckin'' Lovelace.
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John Boreman: Your mother, she - every time that Johnny Carson mentions your name, she changes the channel. I saw your movie. I don't even know who that was up there. That's certainly not my little girl. I had to walk out. Is it something we did? I keep thinking it has to be.
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Hugh Hefner: You know how, some times life imitates art? Well, I think -
[puts his arm around Linda]
Hugh Hefner: I think this is one of those moments.
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John Boreman: Who's Sammy Davis, Jr.?
Dorothy Boreman: You know who he is. It's that colored guy. You know, "Mr. Bojangles."
Lovelace Quotes
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