The pathetically shy LV lives the life of a recluse listening to her late father's old records in her room and in the process driving her abusive, loud-mouthed mother, Mari Hoff, to ... See full summary »

Mari Hoff: Come on, knock out a bit, make way for a woman in lust.
Billy: Great tune.
LV: My heart belongs to Daddy.
Billy: Oh I see.
[looks disappointed]
LV: Marilyn Monroe
Billy: OH!
[L.V blares music while Mari is with Ray, Mari runs to the bottom of the stairs and shouts]
Mari: Cool it will ya' think of the fucking neighbours!
Mari Hoff: What's up with you lots, never had a shag in a Chevy?
Mari Hoff: [Mari and Ray are persuading LV to sing on stage] / You might feel shy.
Ray Say: But there's nothing wrong with being shy at first.
Mari Hoff: It's natural that.
Ray Say: Had a girl recently, wouldn't say boo to a goose. Now she's topping the bill at the reform club.
Mari Hoff: Who's that? That stripper!
Ray Say: Well, yeah, it's the same thing though really. Teenagers and that.
LV: He never spoke up to you because you'd never listen. I never spoke up to you because I could never get a word in!
Ray Say: [rejecting middle-aged Mari's advances] Your body's shot! With your clothes off it's all over the place; I can't keep track of it!
Mr. Boo: Are you messing with that Mari Hoff?
Ray Say: Hoff and on.
Mr. Boo: More on then Hoff, I should say.
Mari Hoff: Ah, your not the famous phone bill, are ya?
Billy: What's your name?
LV: LV.
Billy: Does that stand for something?
LV: Little Voice.
Billy: Oh, on account of being soft-spoken like.
Mari: We're out of bacon... recent bacon I mean.
Ray Say: You're a star.
LV: You're a nutter.
Billy: But when you see 'um fly and better yet, come back well... It's dead exciting!