Miss Congeniality (2000)

Candice Bergen: Kathy Morningside

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• Kathy Morningside : New Jersey, as you know, there are many who consider the Miss United States Pageant to be outdated and anti-feminist. What would you say to them?

  Gracie Hart : Well, I would have to say - I used to be one of them. And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are just trying to make a difference in the world. And we've become really good friends. I mean, I know we all secretly hope the other one will trip and fall on her face, and - wait a minute, I've already done that! And for me this experience has been one of the most rewarding and liberating experiences of my life.

  [audience applauds] 

  Victor Melling : My God, I did it!

  Gracie Hart : And if anyone, anyone - tries to hurt one of my new friends, I would take them out. I would make them suffer so much that they'd wish they were never born. And if they ran, I would hunt them down. Thank you, Kathy.

  Victor Melling : A brief shining moment, and then that mouth!

• Kathy Morningside : Twenty-five years of bitching beauty queens, and what do I get? Fired! They steal my life, they steal my beauty pageant...

  Gracie Hart : Hey, hey! It is not a beauty pageant, it is a scholarship program.

  Kathy Morningside : Yeah, yeah.

  Gracie Hart : *Yes*!

• Kathy Morningside : Of course he had a gun. This is Texas, everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun!

  Stan Fields : I don't have a gun. My ancestors were Quakers.

• Kathy Morningside : Oh, oh, Victor, you'll take the bags to the room. I realize it's been a while since you've been with us, but you remember how everything goes, don't you?

  [Kathy walks off with Gracie] 

  Victor Melling : One little mistake, and I'm a bloody bellhop!

• Kathy Morningside : I would much rather cancel the show than have my girls blown up.

  Stan Fields : Especially without their knowledge.

• Kathy Morningside : You know, you think you saved something tonight, but all you did was to destroy the dream of young women all over this country.

  Gracie Hart : What? You think that their dream is to get blown up?

• Frank Tobin : You're a genius.

  Kathy Morningside : No, Frank, I'm just pissed off.