My Favorite Performances of 2013 (Female)

Gong Er - The Grandmaster
"Remember when I told you that there is nothing to regret in life? It's all bullshit. If life had no regrets it would be really boring."

Wanda - Fruitvale Station
"I told him to take the train. I told him to catch the BART. I didn't know they were gonna hurt my baby. I should've just let him drive. I should've let him drive, but I wanted to keep him safe. You gotta let me hug him. Please, let me hug him. Please. Please! He didn't like to be alone."

Honorable Mentions:
Tanya - Snowpiercer

Eve - Only Lovers Left Alive
"How can you have lived for so long and still not get it? This self obsession is a waste of living, It could be spent surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. You have been pretty lucky in love though, if I may say so."

Honorable Mentions:
Mason - Snowpiercer

Patsey - 12 Years a Slave
"I got this from Mistress Shaw. Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap ta clean with. Stink so much I make myself gag."

Philomena Lee - Philomena
"I remember that day at the fair. His father made me laugh by pretending to be an old man and I made him laugh by pretending to be an old woman. Now I am one, and I'll never know if Anthony ever even thought about me. And I'll never be able to say sorry."

Jasmine - Blue Jasmine
"I can't be alone, Ginger. I really get some bad thoughts when I'm alone."

Ava - Only Lovers Left Alive

Honorable Mentions:
India Stoker - Stoker
Hannah - The Double

Samantha - Her
"The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love. I'm different from you. This doesn't make me love you any less. It actually makes me love you more."

Jean - Inside Llewyn Davis
"Everything you touch turns to shit, you're like king Midas's idiot brother."

Naomi Lapaglia - The Wolf of Wall Street
"Oh, no. No, Daddy doesn't even get to touch Mommy for a very, very... very long time."

Kate Grant - Nebraska
"Here's Delmer, Woody's cousin, he was a drunk. One time we were wrestling and he felt me up. Grabbed a handful of boob and Woody was right there and didn't have a clue, did ya Woody?"

Carol Solomon - In a World...
"I just want to give you my card. I'm not a vocal coach anymore, but I would make an exception for you because you sound like a squeaky toy. And I don't mean that in a bad way."

Ginger - Blue Jasmine
"He was a handsome guy with money. He was a smooth talker and pampered her. What's she gonna say? No?"

Mia - Evil Dead
"Go back to Hell, bitch!"

Amy - Her
"I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It's a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity."

Honorable Mentions:
Sydney Prosser - American Hustle

Emily Taylor - Side Effects
"Imagine everything you ever wanted shows up one day and calls itself your life. And then just when you start to believe in it - gone. And suddenly it gets very hard to imagine a future. That's depression, right?"

Honorable Mentions:
Catherine - Her

Ryan Stone - Gravity
"You're losing altitude fast, Tiangong. You keep dropping and you're going to kiss the atmosphere. But not without me, because you're my last ride."

Honorable Mentions:
Ashburn - The Heat

Dr. Victoria Siebert - Side Effects
"Everybody knows everything."

Mako Mori - Pacific Rim

Elizabeth - Trance
"We keep secrets from lots of people, but most of all we keep them from ourselves. And we call that forgetting."

Sophina - Fruitvale Station
"You think life's a fucking joke? You think you're gonna get fired and somebody's gonna give you your job back?"

Malkina - The Counselor
"Greed really takes you to the edge, doesn't it?"

Aimee - The Spectacular Now
"I like to think there's more to a person than just one thing."

Evelyn Stoker - Stoker
"India, who are you? You were supposed to love me, weren't you?"

Sam Chamberlain - The World's End
"If you think I'm going to have sex with you in the ladies, you're crazy!"