The Champ (1979)

Faye Dunaway: Annie

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Quotes 

• Ring Doctor : [SPOILER] 

  [Champ has just died] 

  Ring Doctor : I'm sorry.

  T.J. : [Georgie and Jackie start to cry, TJ is shocked]  No! Champ! No! Champ. Is he out? Is he out? What's the matter, Champ? Champ, wake up! Wake up! Wake - wake up!

  [kisses his head] 

  T.J. : Champ, wake up, Champ! Hey, don't sleep now. We got to go home. Got to go home, Champ.

  [Georgie collapses into sobs] 

  T.J. : Georgie. Don't cry. Georgie.

  [TJ goes to the doctor] 

  T.J. : Mister, help me. Wake him up! Wake him!

  Ring Doctor : We're all real sorry.

  T.J. : Please, wake him up!

  Ring Doctor : Let's go outside.

  T.J. : No, no! I don't want to! I don't want to!

  [runs to Jackie] 

  T.J. : Jackie! Wake him up! Wake him!

  Jackie : TJ, please.

  T.J. : I want Champ!

  Jackie : TJ...

  T.J. : I want Champ!

  Jackie : TJ. Please, TJ, listen to me. He's gone. He's gone, son. He's gone.

  T.J. : [shakes his head and backs away from Jackie]  No. No! He's not gone! He's not! He's not!

  Jackie : [Annie comes in, a smile on her face until she sees Champ and Jackie trying to calm TJ]  Please.

  T.J. : He is not dead! He is not dead! I want Champ!

  Jackie : Please, listen to me, son.

  T.J. : I want Champ!

  Jackie : TJ, please, listen to me!

  T.J. : I want Champ! Champ! He is not gone!

  Jackie : [he and the doctor try to drag TJ away from Champ]  Come on, son. Come on. TJ.

  Annie : TJ.

  [TJ walks towards her and hugs her, holding on tightly as he sobs] 

• [Billy just sees Annie after 7 years] 

  Billy : You know what I told him? I told him that you died, that you were killed in a car wreck. That you were a tramp and we're better off without you. You're dead! Do you understand that? You're dead! The kid's got no mother!

  Annie : I am his mother.

  Billy : You're dead! He's got no mother!

  Annie : I'm here, I am his mother.

• Billy : No smoking in the barn area. What do you want?

  Annie : T.J.'s Timmy, isn't he?

  Billy : Yeah, T.J. is Timmy. So you figured it out, so what? Even a dumb horse knows her own foal.

• Annie : I'm not an angel in heaven.

  Billy : Who says?

  Annie : I'm not. I'm real. I'm here. I'm a woman who - suffers.

• Annie : The Champ didn't tell you?

  T.J. : Tell me what?

  Annie : I'm your mother.

  T.J. : No, my mother's dead.

  Annie : No she's not. You don't live with us, you're not married to Champ.

  T.J. : She's a beautiful angel and...

  Annie : No! She's not. I'm here and I love you. I love you very much.

  T.J. : You don't live with us. You're not married to Champ.

  Annie : No. Listen to me T.J. You don't have to live with someone to love them. I love you!

  T.J. : Do you love the Champ? Do you? Do you love him? No you're not my mother.

  Annie : No.

  T.J. : You're not my mother.

  Annie : No. No, please, listen to me. It's not that simple! T.J. listen to me.

  T.J. : Go away. Please don't touch me. I don't want you, I don't want you!

  Annie : Timmy!

  T.J. : Go away! Go away! I told you, go away! Go away! Go away! I want Champ! I don't want you. I want the Champ! I want Champ! Champ! I want Champ! I don't want you, I want to go back to the Champ! I want Champ! Get outta here!

• Billy : What about my heart! What about my mind! What about me! What about me? Billy Flynn. Me! You know, what about me? I'm real too!

  Annie : What's the matter, Billy? What is it?

  Billy : You could always come back. We"ll take you back You... We'll give you a second chance.

• Annie : The Chanel revolution - gave women a total look for day and evening. And always with her perfect sense of balance and proportion.

• Billy : Hey, do you know what? You looked pretty good up there. I couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about, but you got it across pretty good.

  Annie : Billy...

  Billy : You're a big shot, now.

  Annie : Billy, do you know what? There aren't any big shots.

• Mike : Did you see what he did to Dolly?

  Annie : I think Dolly was flirting with him.

  Mike : How about you?

  Annie : I guess, I was.

• Annie : The designers of the 30s rediscovered the beauty of the shape of a woman. They returned to languor, sexuality. They gave women a sense of their bodies - and draped them in satin, silk, fur, and filagree, clinging velvet, quantities of costume jewelry, sequined veils, and - feathers.

• Annie : Vionnet was the first designer to completely master the art of the bias-cut dress. She created clothes that *clung* to the body and yet moved freely.

• Billy : You know, you always did have a head on your shoulders. That's one of the things I liked about you. That you had a head on your shoulders.

  Annie : Until I wanted to use it.

• Annie : How's the horse? Is the horse alright?

  Billy : The horse is just fine. In five minutes they'll probably shoot it.

• Annie : Billy, there are - there are different ways of loving someone. Can't we find our way?

• Annie : Come on. I'll help you undress.

  T.J. : No. It's okay. The day a man can't take off his own pants - he - he ain't a man.