My Favorite Performances of 1996 (Female)

Marge Gunderson - Fargo
"I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou."

Honorable Mentions:
Molly - Primal Fear

Samantha Caine - The Long Kiss Goodnight
"Oh, no, baby, no. You're not going to die. They are. Cover your ears. Hey, should we get a dog?"

Janet Venable - Primal Fear
"Do you know what I would do if someone did that to me? I would kill him, I wouldn't hesitate. I would stab him 78 times. I would chop off his fingers, slash his throat open, carve numbers in his chest, gouge out his eyes, I swear to God!... But that's me."

Helen Remington - Primal Fear
"I'll wear a fucking kimono if I feel like it."

Diane - Trainspotting
"You're not getting any younger, Mark. The world's changing. Music's changing. Even drugs are changing. You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin and Ziggy Pop."

Rita Malone - The Daytrippers
"Don't be ridiculous. Nobody's desperately in love."

Sidney Prescott - Scream
"You sick fucks. You've seen one too many movies!"

Honorable Mentions:
Bonnie - The Craft

Vanessa Lutz - Freeway
"You shoulda let me out of the car when I asked you to, Bob. You see what happens when ya got bad manners?"

Honorable Mentions:
Nicole Walker - Fear

Libby Mae Brown - Waiting for Guffman
"What New York really is, is it's an island, with lots of people, lots of different people... I hope to maybe meet some guys, some Italian guys, and maybe watch some TV."

Honorable Mentions:
Jo Malone - The Daytrippers
Mary Boone - Basquiat

Dorothy Boyd - Jerry Maguire
"You had me at "hello"."

Agatha Trunchbull - Matilda
"I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me."

Sheila Albertson - Waiting for Guffman
"He's teaching me to change my instincts... or at least ignore them."

Eliza Malone D'Amico - The Daytrippers

Catherine Ballard - Crash
"They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months."

Clementine - Hard Eight
"Well, then I get questioned, like: "Why were so rude to them?", and, I mean, I can't talk back. I can't tell them to fuck off and leave me alone."

Claire Phelps - Mission: Impossible

Barbara Land - Mars Attacks!
"I am an alcoholic, but I haven't had a drink in three months!"

Juliet - Romeo + Juliet
"And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

Nancy Downs - The Craft
"You know, in the old days, if a witch betrayed her coven, they would kill her."

Kate Fuller - From Dusk Till Dawn
"Richie, would you do me a favor and eat my pussy for me... please?"

Marcee Tidwell - Jerry Maguire
"I don't know what you do for your four percent but my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play."

Matilda - Matilda
"I want to be in school. I told you I was supposed to start school in September. You wouldn't listen."

Gale Weathers - Scream
"If I'm right about this, I could save a man's life. Do you know what that would do for my book sales?"

Vic - Pusher

Sarah Bailey - The Craft
"By the power of three times three, make them see, make them see."