Of Mice and Men (1992)

Sherilyn Fenn: Curley's Wife

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Quotes 

• Curley's Wife : Nobody can't blame a person for looking. See y'around.

  [She exits the bunkhouse] 

  Lennie : She's pretty.

  George : Lennie! Listen to me, God damn it! Don't you even look at her! I don't care what she says or what she does, she's a rat trap if I ever seen one.

  Lennie : But I wasn't doing nothing.

  George : No, but when she was shoving her legs around you weren't looking the other way neither. Keep away from her!

  Lennie : I don't like this place.

• Curley's Wife : [approaches Lennie with sympathy]  I know how you got them bruises on your face, and how Curley got his hand busted.

  Lennie : He got his hand cut in the machine...

  Curley's Wife : [sadly]  Oh, yeah, all right. If you say so.

  [she walks away from him] 

  Curley's Wife : [tearfully in anger]  Someday, I'm going into town, and no one's ever gonna see me again - not Curley, not his old man, NOT A DAMN ONE OF YOU BINDLE STIFFS!

  [she runs off crying] 

• Curley's Wife : [as Lennie strokes Curley's wife hair]  Don't muss it up. Look out now, you'll muss it up. Don't muss it up. Let go.

  [Lennie laughs as he begins to stroke harder] 

  Curley's Wife : I said, let go. You let go! LET GO!

  [Lennie panics and begins to grab Curley's wife to keep her quiet, Curley's wife screams violently] 

  Lennie : Shh! Shh! Hey! Don't do none of that, please! Don't you go yelling! Shh! Don't--don't you go yelling!

  [Lennie continues to restrain Curley's wife until she frees her mouth and bites Lennie's hand and screams even louder] 

  Lennie : [jerks her hard, furiously]  DON'T YELL! Don't do that! George is gonna be mad if you yell!

  [Lennie places Curley's wife on a pile of hay, she is not moving] 

  Lennie : Don't wanna hurt you, but you're gonna get me in a lot of trouble.

  [Lennie notices her not moving] 

  Lennie : [moves her now lifeless body around]  You done a bad thing!

  [Lennie somehow realizes that Curley's wife is dead for he had broken her neck] 

  Lennie : [petrified with fear]  I... I done a bad thing. I done a--a really bad thing.

  [Lennie gets spooked by the sound of flapping wings from a pigeon, he slowly gets up runs out of the barn as the men continue their horseshoe tournament]