Nashville (1975)

Gwen Welles: Sueleen Gay

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• Wade : What's the matter with you? Ain't you gonna talk to me? Did it go all right?

  Sueleen Gay : Oh, Wade.

  Wade : What?

  Sueleen Gay : I had to do me a striptease tonight in front of all those men... in order to get to sing at the Parthenon with Barbara Jean.

  Wade : Oh, shit, Sueleen, I... That's dreadful! That's terrible, girl! I mean... I don't know how to tell you this, but I been meanin' to... you can't sing. You may as well face the fact you cannot sing. You ain't never gon' be no star. I wish you'd give it up. They gon' kill ya. They gon' tear your heart out if you keep on. They gon' walk on your soul, girl.

  Sueleen Gay : What are you talkin' about?

  Wade : You can't sing. Do you understand that?

  Sueleen Gay : Yeah? You wanna make a bet? You wanna come to the Parthenon and watch me sing with Barbara Jean?

  Wade : I am leavin' for Detroit Wednesday.

  Sueleen Gay : You just come and watch, Wade.

  Wade : I'm leavin' for Detroit, and if you wanna go you just come on. They gonna kill you in this town.

  Sueleen Gay : Well, you come and see.

  Wade : They gon' use you. You know that.

  Sueleen Gay : Bye, Wade.

  [Leaves] 

  Wade : Dumb bitch. I don't know why I stick around. She just makes me so goddamn mad I could spit.

• Mr. Green : Miss, may I have a caramel sundae, please?

  Sueleen Gay : Hon, we ain't got no caramel sundae.

  Mr. Green : Butterscotch. Butterscotch sundae.

  Sueleen Gay : We ain't got no butterscotch sundae. Got a strawberry. They're real good.

  Mr. Green : Fine. Fine. That's fine. I'll have a strawberry sundae, if I may.

  Sueleen Gay : You got it!

• Sueleen Gay : This real hot song. You wanna hear it? It's called, "I Never Get Enough." Okay, let's go. Alright?

  [singing] 

  Sueleen Gay : I never get enough, I never get enough, Of the love I'm hungry for. I never get enough, I never get enough, I always want more and more...