My Favorite Performances of 2008 (Female)

Poppy - Happy-Go-Lucky
"The Road to Reality... Don't wanna be going there!"

Kym - Rachel Getting Married
"Who do I have to be now? I mean, I could be Mother Teresa and it wouldn't make a difference, what I did. Did I sacrifice every bit of... love I'm allowed for this life because I killed our little brother?"

Eli - Let the Right One In
"I'm twelve. But I've been twelve for a long time."

April Wheeler - Revolutionary Road
"Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying."

Linda Litzke - Burn After Reading
"You know, I'm trying to reinvent myself, and these procedures, which are so incredibly not cheap..."

Cassidy - The Wrestler
"Fuckin' 90's sucked."

Sister Aloysius Beauvier - Doubt
"I will step outside the church if that's what needs to be done, 'til the door should shut behind me! I will do what needs to be done, though I'm damned to Hell! You should understand that, or you will mistake me."

Daisy - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew, that he knew, who I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep."

Mrs. Miller - Doubt
"You can't hold a child responsible for what God gave him to be."

Stephanie - The Wrestler
"You know what, I don't care. I don't hate you. I don't love you. I don't even like you. And I was stupid to think that you could change. I don't care."

Sandra Cohen - Two Lovers

Chloë - In Bruges
"One of the girls they murdered wasn't a friend of mine. I just wanted to make you feel bad. And it worked! Quite well."

Queenie - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
"You as ugly as an old pot, but you still a child of God..."

Rachel - Rachel Getting Married
"Kym, you took Ethan for granted. Okay? You were high for his life. You were not present. Okay? You were high. And you drove him off a bridge... and now he's dead."

Katie Cox - Burn After Reading
"Harry, stop the foolishness and behave. You're not talking to one of your *shithole* buddies."

Honorable Mentions:
Elizabeth Abbott - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sister James - Doubt
"You just don't like him! You don't like it that he uses a ballpoint pen. You don't like it that he takes 3 lumps of sugar in his tea. You don't like it that he likes Frosty the Snowman and you are letting that convince you? Of something that's terrible... Just terrible... Well, I like Frosty the Snowman!"

Stella - RocknRolla
"Is that what they call humor where you're from?"

Honorable Mentions:
Condoleezza Rice - W.

Michelle Rausch - Two Lovers

Honorable Mentions:
Pepper Potts - Iron Man

Mrs. Helen Givings - Revolutionary Road
"I remember the first day you came off the train. You weren't like my other clients. You were - different. You just seemed - special. - - Of course, you still are."

Nancy Huff - Step Brothers
"Brennan, Denise called and she said she can't spend New Year's Eve with you because she's not your girlfriend, she's your therapist."

Sarah Marshall - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
"I took love seminars, sex seminars, so don't you dare sit here and tell me I didn't try because I tried really hard, you were just too stupid to notice."

Zen - Chocolate

Rachel Dawes - The Dark Knight
"When I told you that if Gotham no longer needed Batman we could be together, I meant it. But now I'm sure the day won't come when *you* no longer need Batman."

Summer Hartley - Definitely, Maybe
"You know what I've never done? I've never spent the whole day in bed with a really great guy."

Carol - Pineapple Express