Soldier's Girl (2003 TV Movie)

Lee Pace: Calpernia Addams

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Quotes 

• Barry Winchell) : You know what really pisses me off?

  Calpernia Addams : What?

  Barry Winchell) : You outrank me.

• Calpernia Addams : Oh, I must look a wreck!

  Barry Winchell) : Go back to sleep. Shh, close your eyes. Go to sleep.

  [pause] 

  Barry Winchell) : You look like an angel.

  Calpernia Addams : I look like some kind of corpse...

  Barry Winchell) : Sh! You're not allowed to say negative things about yourself in my presence. And that's an order, private.

• Barry Winchell) : You're not like the other girls.

  Calpernia Addams : That's an understatement!

• Calpernia Addams : He wants to see me again!

  Ginger : And what's wrong with that?

  Calpernia Addams : He's a straight boy!

• [last lines] 

  Calpernia Addams : [voiceover]  The imagination is the most powerful force known to mankind. And it is my imagined self, the one who is beautiful and loving and worthy of being loved, that has been my guiding force. My inspiration. I can only hope to become the person Barry imagined me to be. I pray for the courage it will take to become a real, live soldier's girl.

  [performs to "Fever"] 

  Title card : Calpernia Addams has completed her sex-reassignment surgery. She now works in hospital administration in Los Angeles.

  Title card : Calvin Glover was sentenced to life in prison for murder, and will be eligible for parole in fifteen years.

  Calvin Glover : Can I talk to my mom please?

  Justin Fisher : I could feel his will to live, and feel him dying at the same time. I was, I was holding Barry in my arms. I was the last person to do that.

  Title card : Justin Fisher was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison for obstruction of justice and providing alcohol to a minor. He will be eligible for parole in three years.

• Calpernia Addams : Under all this hair and make-up, I'm just a piece of white trash from the hills of tennessee. I like shit-kicking country music, and sometimes when I'm home all alone, I eat baked beans right out of the can.

• Calpernia Addams : [voiceover]  I'm gonna tell you a story. It's a simple story, although the details may seem to some bizarre, perhaps even sensational. Like all great stories it's a love story. And like all great stories it's terribly tragic. You may think that I'm the center of this story, the 'main character', as they say. But I'm not. True, I glitter more than others, and, I admit, I've always craved the spotlight. I get the attention 'cause I'm flashy like the gowns I wear. I'm the rhinestones of this story. But the true hero of this story... he was as quiet and as solid as a Chanel suit. His name is Barry. And like all great Americans he was born in Missouri.

• Calpernia Addams : I was beginning to coalesce a dream of me and Barry being together. The dangerous thing about dreams... you begin to believe they might come true.