My Favorite Performances of 2001 (Female)

Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn - Mulholland Drive
"It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else."

Amélie Poulain - Amélie
"At least you'll never be a vegetable - even artichokes have hearts."

Leticia Musgrove - Monster's Ball
"Make me feel good."

Honorable Mentions:
Ginger - Swordfish

Fiona - Josie and the Pussycats
"It's Mr. Moviefone. He does all our subliminal tracks."

Rita / Camilla Rhodes - Mulholland Drive
"Good night, sweet Betty."

Bridget Jones - Bridget Jones's Diary
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces."

Enid - Ghost World
"This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again."

Etheline Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
"Raleigh says you've been spending 6 hours a day locked in here, watching television and soaking in the tub."

Sofia Serrano - Vanilla Sky
"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."

Grace - The Others
"I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world."

Margot Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
"I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie."

Monica Swinton - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
"David, listen. Now... you won't understand the reasons, but... I have - I have to leave you here."

Elle Woods - Legally Blonde
"I just don't think that Brooke could've done this. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't shoot their husbands, they just don't."

Rebecca - Ghost World
"That guy is many things but he's definitely not cool."

Gretchen Ross - Donnie Darko
"And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?"

Jessica - Made

Galadriel - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true."

Josie McCoy - Josie and the Pussycats
"Puppies... turn into dogs... who get get old... AND DIE!"

Lindsay - Josie and the Pussycats
"You're not so bad yourself, Mr. Man."

Julie Gianni - Vanilla Sky
"I swallowed your cum! That means something!"

Sonji - Ali
"Are you a virgin?"

Doris Crane - The Man Who Wasn't There
"Life is so goddamn wonderful you almost won't believe it. It's a bowl of goddamn cherries..."

Elizabeth Darko - Donnie Darko
"You can go suck a fuck."

Melody Valentine - Josie and the Pussycats
"If I could go back in time, I would want to meet Snoopy."

Arwen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."