My Favorite Performances of 1999 (Female)

Manuela - All About My Mother
"I'm not a whore. I've been fucked around a lot, but I'm not a whore."

Alice Harford - Eyes Wide Shut
"Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it in every place they can, but for women... women it is just about security and commitment and whatever the fuck else!"

Asami Yamazaki - Audition
"Only pain and suffering will make you realize who you are."

Tracy Flick - Election
"Some people say I'm an overachiever, but I think they're just jealous."

Honorable Mentions:
Annette Hargrove - Cruel Intentions

Lynn Sear - The Sixth Sense
"Do... Do I make her proud?"

Huma Rojo - All About My Mother
"Success has got no taste or smell. And when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist."

Linda Partridge - Magnolia
"Who the fuck are you, who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here, you don't know me, you don't know who I am, what my life is, you have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life?"

Marla Singer - Fight Club
"My God. I haven't been fucked like that since grade school."

Susanna - Girl, Interrupted
"Declared healthy and sent back into the world. My final diagnosis: a recovered borderline. What that means, I still don't know. Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is."

Sister María Rosa Sanz - All About My Mother
"I'm sorry about my mother. I'm sorry."

Carolyn Burnham - American Beauty
"Oh, you don't complain? Then please, excuse me, I must be psychotic, then! If you don't complain, what is this? Yeah, let's bring in the laugh-meter and see how loud it gets."

Maxine Lund - Being John Malkovich
"Let's have sex on his table and then make him eat an omelette off of it."

Marge Sherwood - The Talented Mr. Ripley
"Why is it when men play they always play at killing each other?"

Jane Burnham - American Beauty
"I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. What a lame-o. Someone really should just put him out of his misery."

Mary Burke - Bringing Out the Dead
"You have to be strong to survive in this city."

Lotte Schwartz - Being John Malkovich
"I think it's kinda sexy that John Malkovich has a portal, y'know, sort of like, it's like, like he has a vagina. It's sort of vaginal, y'know, like he has a, he has a penis AND a vagina. I mean, it's sort of like... Malkovich's... feminine side. I like that."

Trinity - The Matrix
"The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."

Meredith Logue - The Talented Mr. Ripley
"The truth is that if you've had money your entire life, even if you despise it, which we do - agreed? - you're only truly comfortable around other people who have it and despise it."

Claudia Wilson Gator - Magnolia
"I'll tell you everything, and you tell me everything, and maybe we can get through all the piss and shit and lies that kill other people."

Melinda Moores - The Green Mile
"I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark."

Kat Stratford - 10 Things I Hate About You
"I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time."

Lisa - Girl, Interrupted
"I'm playing the villain, baby, just like you want. I try to give you everything you want."

Allegra Geller - eXistenZ
"It's your character who said it. It's kind of a schizophrenic feeling, isn't it? You'll get used to it. There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the characters, and those things get said whether you want to say them or not. Don't fight it."

Anna Crowe - The Sixth Sense
"Good night, Malcolm..."

Ronna Martin - Go
"You know what makes it even better? If you take like a lot of pot with it. I mean like, like a lot of pot."

Honorable Mentions:
Merle - eXistenZ