Black Snake Moan (2006)

Adriane Lenox: Rose Woods

Quotes 

• 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!

• 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!