My Favorite Performances of 1997 (Female)

Jackie Brown - Jackie Brown
"I ain't playin' with you. I'm gonna unload both of these motherfuckers if you don't do what I tell you to do. You understand what I'm sayin'?"

Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield - Lost Highway
"You'll never have me."

Jackie-O - The House of Yes
"Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed."

Honorable Mentions:
Margaret - Clockwatchers

Amber Waves - Boogie Nights
"Don't worry, I'm fixed. I want you to cum in me. Okay."

Honorable Mentions:
Sarah Harding - The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Skylar - Good Will Hunting
"You're afraid of me! You're afraid that I won't love you back! Fuck it, I wanna give it a shot! At least I'm honest with you."

Honorable Mentions:
Debi Newberry - Grosse Pointe Blank

Elena Benedetti - Live Flesh
"A really great fuck? You didn't even stick it in! You've got a lot to learn!"

Janey Carver - The Ice Storm
"You're boring me. I have a husband. I don't particularly feel the need for another."

Rose Dewitt Bukater - Titanic
"I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go. I promise."

Melanie - Jackie Brown
"Jesus, but if you two are not the biggest pair of fuck-ups I've ever met in my entire life. How did you ever rob a bank? When you robbed banks, did you forget where your car was then too? No wonder you went to jail."

Michele - Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
"For me, it's like I've just given birth to my own baby girl, except she's like a big giant girl who smokes and says "shit" a lot. You know?"

Honorable Mentions:
Paula - Clockwatchers

Wendy Hood - The Ice Storm
"Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal their tribal lands. And stuff ourselves like pigs, even though children in Asia are being napalmed."

Clara - Live Flesh
"I'm not asking you to love me! I love you enough for both of us."

Iris Chapman - Clockwatchers
"Sometimes it hits you how quickly the present fades into the past, and you question everything around you. You wonder if anything you'd ever do would matter."

Lynn Bracken - L.A. Confidential
"I see Bud because I want to. I see Bud because he can't hide the good inside of him. I see Bud because he treats me like Lynn Bracken and not some Veronica Lake look-alike who fucks for money."

Elena Hood - The Ice Storm
"I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that."

Honorable Mentions:
Eve Archer - Face/Off

Romy - Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
"I was so lucky getting mono. That was like the best diet ever."

Honorable Mentions:
Susan Tyler - Mimic

Rollergirl - Boogie Nights
"You don't ever disrespect me. FUCKER! YOU NEVER DISRESPECT ME, YOU FUCKER!"

Julianne Potter - My Best Friend's Wedding
"I'm a busy girl. I've got exactly four days to break up a wedding, steal the bride's fella and I haven't one clue how to do it. He was in love with me everyday for nine goddamn years. Me!"

Honorable Mentions:
Alice Sutton - Conspiracy Theory

Molly Brown - Titanic
"Ain't nothing to it, is there, Jack? Remember, they love money so pretend like you own a gold mine and then you're in the club."

Irene - Gattaca
"I have this crazy idea you're more interested in the murder case than me."

Winifred Ames - Wag the Dog
"Oh, God. What do we do now? Huh? Huh? What do we do now, huh, boy producer? Huh? Mister win-an-Emmy, social-conscience, whale-shit, save-the-rain-forest, peacenik-commie, fuckin'-hire-a-convict-shithead? Huh? What do we do now, liberal, affirmative action, shithead, peacenik commie fuck? What do you want to do now?"

Honorable Mentions:
Maggie Pistone - Donnie Brasco
Melissa Egan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Christine - The Game
"What *is* the going rate for a trapped-in-an-elevator adventure?"

Leeloo - The Fifth Element
"Everything you create, you use to destroy."

Kimberly Wallace - My Best Friend's Wedding
"Shut up! Now I love this man, and there is no way I'm gonna give him up to some two-faced, big-haired food critic."

Honorable Mentions:
Celine - A Life Less Ordinary

Carol Connelly - As Good as It Gets
"When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke."