Cecil B. Demented Quotes

  • Cherish: All my directors fuck me.

    Cecil: I am not all your directors! I am Cecil B. Demented!

  • Sniffles: Nobody here but us whackers.

  • Honey: How can you be a drug addict in the new millennium? It's so retro.

    Lyle: Before I was a drug addict, I had so many different problems. Now I just have one - drugs! Gave my life a real focus.

  • Cecil: I have a vision!

  • Fidget: Hey, hey MPAA, how many movies have you censored today?

  • [takes a big sip from a chalice]

    Raven: It's goat's urine. Want some?

  • Cecil: Power to the people who punish bad cinema!

  • Cecil: Demented forever!

  • Cecil: Death to mainstream cinema!

  • Petie: Tell me about Mel Gibson's dick and balls!

  • Cecil: Action Fans! Help us!

  • Cecil: I am Cecil B. Demented! And this is a fucking kidnapping!

  • Rodney: I'm ashamed of my heterosexuality!

  • Honey: No! Please let me go! I promise I won't tell anyone about your little movie!

    Cecil: Little?

    Honey: I didn't mean, you know, *little*. I meant, you know, low-budget... ly cult.

  • Raven: Pain is pleasure! Slavery is freedom! Suicide for Satan!

  • Cecil: Celibacy for celluloid!

  • Candy counter girl: Do you know Quentin Tarantino? I love his movies!

    Cecil: No adlibbing!

    [fires gun]

  • Dinah: Hey! We're not union! And we're takin' over this movie!

  • Cecil: I'm Cecil B. Demented, and you're in my movie. Do not look into the lens and ruin the shot or you will be shot.

  • [filming a scene for "Raving Beauty"]

    Honey: It's that fucking new multiplex that opened in the mall, isn't it?

    Cherish: I heard they were sold out last night, mom.

    Lyle: No, not for the Flinstones sequel...!

  • Cecil: No one gets laid until we've finished our movie. We're horny, but our film comes first!

  • [Raven introduces herself to Honey]

    Raven: Hi, I'm Raven, I'm a Satanist and I'll be doing your make-up.

    [changes tone]

    Raven: You look so pale...

    [angrily slaps Honey, then turns sweet again]

    Raven: Sorry, but Satan says you need more color.

  • Cherish: Porno Fans! It's me, Cherish! And I need your hardcore help!

  • Cecil: I'm a prophet against profit!

  • Honey: Raven, you know, you're a really pretty girl. You could escape from all of this madness.

    Raven: Escape to what, Honey? I mean, my father is Zo-Zo, the three headed guard dog at the gate to hell.

    Honey: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

  • Honey: I am ready for my close-up, Mr. Demented.

  • Cecil: Technique is nothing more than failed style.

  • Cecil: [the camera operator has just been shot] Principal photography has been completed!

  • Honey: Family is just a dirty word for censorship.

  • Cherish: We can fuck now?

    Cecil: From here to Timbuktu!

  • Cecil: There are no rules in underground cinema, only edges.

  • Fidget: No! I want to go home! I don't want to be in show business anymore!

    Cecil: I knew you were the weak one, Fidget. Just remember, your parents liked Godzilla.

    Lyle: They wouldn't even let you see R-rated films as a child.

    Dinah: They've never even been to a midnight movie.

    Chardonnay: They enjoy classic TV sitcoms turned into feature length films.

    Cherish: They've never rented a porno movie.

    Cecil: And to top it all off, they talk out loud in the theatre once the feature has begun.

    Honey: Oh, that really is unforgivable, Fidget.

    Fidget: Okay, okay! My parents are the enemies of film!

  • Honey: Cherish, this is America, you know. It's a free country. People can make bad movies if they so desire.

    Cecil: Not anymore they don't!

    Cherish: You think just cause you've made "real" movies you're better than me, don't you?

    Honey: Oh, please.

    Cherish: Do you know why I became a porno star?

    [everyone in van groans]

    Cecil: Cherish has recovered memory.

    Cherish: When I was ten years old, my entire family fucked me under the Christmas tree.

    Honey: I'm so sorry.

    Cherish: Yeah, I bet you are... "jingle balls, jingle balls" my stupid brother started singing.

    Honey: [laughs]

    Cherish: You think that's funny?

    Honey: [still laughing] No, I don't.

    Cecil: That's all behind you now, Cherish. We're here, and we're makin' movies.

  • Cecil: Continue eating the oysters or you will be shot and killed!

  • Honey: I fucking hate Forrest Gump!

  • Cecil: Do you see the pain your performance is causing me? Huh?

    Honey: Okay, yes I do. F... fine, uhm, I'll do it. Okay? Let's just shoot it.

  • Cecil: How's this for motivated, huh?

  • Honey: Attica... Rodney King !

  • Cecil's Mom: Well, that's what you get.

Cecil B. Demented

Director: John Waters

Language: English Release date: September 1, 2000