My Favorite Performances of 2002 (Female)

Lena Leonard - Punch-Drunk Love
"I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them."

Honorable Mentions:
Reba McClane - Red Dragon

Yeong-mi Cha - Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
"The bad image kidnappers get is because of kids getting killed. But we're different. Give us the money and we'll return the kid pronto."

Susan Orlean - Adaptation.
"There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size."

Honorable Mentions:
Clarissa Vaughan - The Hours

Angélica - City of God

Roberta Hertzel - About Schmidt
"People used to think it was strange 'cause I breast-fed him 'til he was almost five, but I say - hunh, just look at the results!"

Connie Sumner - Unfaithful
"We can spend the rest of our lives on that beach, and when we die we can just push out to sea. What do you think?"

Meg Altman - Panic Room
"Get the *FUCK* out of my house!"

Selena - 28 Days Later
"You were thinking that you'll never hear another piece of original music ever again. You'll never read another book that hasn't already been written... or see a film that hasn't already been shot."

Ellie Burr - Insomnia
"A good cop can't sleep because he's missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can't sleep because his conscience won't let him."

Virginia Woolf - The Hours
"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard, always the years between us, always the years. Always, the love. Always, the hours."

Fiona Brewer - About a Boy
"Will, am I a bad mother?"

Honorable Mentions:
Kitty - The Hours

Naturelle Riviera - 25th Hour
"One minute ago, you were my friend. Are you drunk? Tell me you've been drinking too much. You're fucking drunk."

Rachel - The Ring
"I think before you die, you see the ring..."

Brenda Strong - Catch Me If You Can
"Frank? Frank? You're not a Lutheran?"

Lee Holloway - Secretary
"In one way or another, I've always suffered. I didn't know why, exactly. But I do know that I'm not so scared of suffering now. I feel more than I've ever felt, and I've found someone to feel with, to play with, to love, in a way that feels right for me. I hope he knows that I can see that he suffers, too. And that I want to love him."

Patricia Watson - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
"Insane asylums are filled with people who think they're Jesus or Satan. Very few have delusions of being a guy down the block who works for an insurance company."

Valerie Thomas - Adaptation.
"I guess we thought that maybe Susan Orlean and Leroche could fall in love, and..."

Sarah Altman - Panic Room
"You know, people never get buried alive anymore. I guess it used to happen all the time."

Marie - The Bourne Identity
"I see the exit sign, too. I'm not worried. I mean, you were shot. People do all kinds of weird and amazing stuff when they are scared."

Nora Wells - Death to Smoochy
"You're here to sell sugar and plastic."

Penny - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
"You could if you felt it. If you felt it, it would be easy. You would just spread your arms as wide as they would go and say: "This much, Penny.""

Mary D'Annunzio - 25th Hour
"Well, it's not real deep or anything. The guy wants to get laid and he's telling her to give it up."

Honorable Mentions:
Robyn Lee - Buffalo Soldiers

Agatha - Minority Report
"I'm sorry, John, but you're going to have to run again."

Annie Sullivan - Road to Perdition

Jenny Everdeane - Gangs of New York
"I was twelve years old, my mother was dead, and I was livin' in a doorway. He took me in. Took care of me, in his way. After they cut out the baby - well, he doesn't fancy girls that's scarred up. But you should know, in your own mind, that he never laid a hand on me until I asked him to."