Taboo (2002)
Lori Heuring: Katie
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Quotes
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Benjamin : Question: Would you sleep with a minor? Answer: yes. Let's begin our slide into the moral abyss.
Katie : Oh! Naughty naughty.
Adam : Aw, shit, I, for one, had sex before I was fourteen. I don't see what the big deal is.
Benjamin : Really. I didn't think that they had altar boys in the, uh, the Jewish faith.
Elizabeth : [hurriedly trying to deflect any animosity] Okay, Piper, your turn.
Piper : Question: Would you sleep with a person of the same sex? Answer: yes.
Christian Turner : What a great game to play with our best friends.
Adam : Yeah, fuck Taboo. Let's have an orgy, huh?
Elizabeth : Or enroll in group therapy.
Benjamin : Well, maybe you need new friends.
Piper : Well, actually? We all seem pretty well suited for each other, so far.
Elizabeth : [looks at Adam] Your turn.
Adam : All right, the question is: Would you have a threesome? The answer is yes.
Christian Turner : Two girls and one guy, right?
Piper : Does it matter?
Katie : Well, Mr. Right Wing Conservative over there looks like he might think two girls might be fun. Huh?
[Piper, his current girlfriend, looks at him worriedly]
Elizabeth : Okay, my turn. Question: Would you have sex for money? Answer: yes.
[She looks at Katie]
Katie : I like sex, okay? That does not make me a hooker. At least it doesn't make me a bitch.
Benjamin : That's my baby.
Katie : Question. Mmm. Would you sleep with your partner's best friend? Answer? A very disappointing no.
Christian Turner : Wow. There's one good person amongst us sinners.
Katie : Christian. Pardon me, but don't you have to be a lot fatter and less educated to be part of the Christian coalition?
Christian Turner : So says the prep school anarchist.
Katie : Ah. No, no no. See, I am just a shallow, materialistic party girl, and at least I don't pretend to believe in principles.
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[first lines]
Piper : [reading from a dictionary] "Taboo: A prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force." That's creepy. And, and I, I don't, I don't really get it.
Elizabeth : Well, the thing about taboos is that society shuns them. But if you really think about it, I mean, there's something very tempting about it. And the game will test whether or not we succumb to the taboo, whatever it might be.
Christian Turner : Such as?
Elizabeth : Such as, would you cheat on your husband or wife?
Katie : Oh, that's considered taboo? See, I just thought it was good Country Club etiquette.
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[They raise their champagne glasses in a toast, as the New Year approaches]
Christian Turner : Here, a toast. To the four people in the world that I most love to hate. And
[nodding to Elizabeth]
Christian Turner : to the one that I hate to love.
Elizabeth : [She grins] To relationships that last as long as we live.
[She smiles saucily at Christian]
Elizabeth : As short as that may be.
Piper : To the twelve seconds.
Benjamin : [mocking her drunkenness] "Twelve theconds." I'd like to make a toast to bread. Because without bread, there would be no toast.
Katie : [to Elizabeth, spitefully] Uh, a toast for the cure to cancer! And, uh, ending world hunger, and everything else I'll never be involved in!
Piper : [drunk but happy] To special people! And special times.
Adam : Special Olympics!
