Black Snake Moan (2006)
Adriane Lenox: Rose Woods
Quotes
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Rose Woods : How many times we been over this, Laz? How many times?
[pause]
Rose Woods : Thought we was gonna be friendly about this.
Lazarus : Carryin' on behind my back. Make me out to look like a fool to all our people. Tell me, what's friendly about that?
Rose Woods : I'm not ready to grow old, Laz. Livin' with you. I feel it. Like I'm one foot in the dirt. Saw it happen to my momma. And that's not gonna happen to me. I got living to do.
Lazarus : And you gonna live it with him?
[pause]
Lazarus : Rose. Folks get sick. But you do what you can to get on the mend. Our marriage... it just got sick. That's all.
Rose Woods : Talk to me about sick. Ain't been right since I moved into that drafty house.
Lazarus : I kept the heat on...
Rose Woods : That damned, rusty, radiator, bout burned the skin off my legs each time I passed.
Lazarus : Kept us warm for twelve years.
Rose Woods : I deserve better than this.
Lazarus : Better than me?
Rose Woods : Better than what you give.
Lazarus : Rose, please...
Rose Woods : Laz... You can't say nothin'...
Lazarus : If we get with a counselor. At the church, maybe they's...
Rose Woods : I don't love you no more!
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Rose Woods : [to Lazarus] Don't you lay a curse on me.
[everyone at the diner glares]
Rose Woods : Yeah, go on, look! SEE IF I GIVE A SHIT ABOUT *ANY* OF YOU PEOPLE!