Angela Bettis Biography

With her unconventional, quirky beauty and memorably tormented roles in the made-for-television remake of Stephen King's Carrie and independent director Lucky McKee's art-house horror hit May (both 2002), actress Angela Bettis is quickly gaining a reputation as something of a scream queen despite talent that could easily find her accelerating far beyond genre work. A Texas native whose free-spirited mother encouraged her acting endeavors, it was at age six that Bettis first began to realize her love of performing. A thriving community theater environment in Austin served to inspire Bettis and provide her with her earliest roles; with each passing year, what had begun as a hobby began to look more and more like a career. Eventually performing opposite such screen heavies as Al Pacino (in Salome) and Liam Neeson (in The Crucible), Bettis was honored with both Drama-Logue and Garland awards for her turn in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Bettis' screen debut in director Franco Zeffirelli's Sparrow (1993) found the then 18-year-old actress gaining her first positive screen notices directly out of the gate, and though it would be six years before she would again go before cameras, a pair of notable efforts in 1999 would find many agreeing that it was worth the wait. In addition to a moving turn as a sympathetic teen who develops feelings for a wanted man in the little-seen indie drama The Last Best Sunday, Bettis gained exposure, and critical kudos, for her role as an anorexic teen in the Winona Ryder drama Girl, Interrupted. Though Girl, Interrupted co-star Angelina Jolie would take home the Oscar for Best Supporting Performance that year, many would agree that Bettis' considerably less substantial supporting role packed as much if not more dramatic impact than the much-celebrated Jolie. Making her maiden voyage into horror with a role as Kim Basinger's sister in the horror outing Bless the Child, Bettis wetted her toes in the genre despite the fact that it would be two full years until her standout performances in May and the otherwise forgettable Carrie. In the meantime, Bettis would continue to gain notice in such dramas as Perfume and Falling (both 2001). The same year Bettis established genre credibility, she could be spotted in Love Rome before she began gearing up for her role in Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper's horror remake The Toolbox Murders. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

• 1. May Canady: Where's Polly?
  2. Ambrosia: In the head. Polly, hurry up in there! I've been drinking vodka all night and I have to piss like a racehorse!
  3. May Canady: [giggles] hm-hm
  4. Ambrosia: (gets annoyed and mimics May's giggle) - UM-HM!
  5. May Canady: You have really beautiful legs.
  6. Ambrosia: I thought they were gams?
  7. May Canady: Gams, stems, wheels, whatever. Give us a little spin, doll.
  8. Ambrosia: Huh?
  9. May Canady: Turn around for me.
  10. Ambrosia: You are so fu*king weird. I don't know what Polly sees in you.
  11. May Canady: Polly doesn't see anything. Turn around, Miss Grable.
  12. Ambrosia: Okay, doll (she does a sexy spin) How was that?
  13. May Canady: Beautiful [May stabs Ambrosia in the temple with a scalpel, killing her]
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: So what do you do, May?
  2. May Canady: I work at the animal hospital. And I sew.
  3. Adam: Okay. Animal hospital.
  4. May Canady: Some people think it's kind of gross.
  5. Adam: I love gross.
  6. May Canady: Really?
  7. Adam: Mm-hmm. Disgust me, please.
  8. May Canady: Okay. A couple of weeks ago, and old man comes in, and says his dog is dying. And he begs us to save it. A 90-pound black lad named Seymour. We take him in and run some tests, and find that he has a twisted bowel, and needs to be operated on immediately. So we shave Seymour's tummy, we cut him open, and take out a piece of intestine about - about the size of a hot dog. Everything went smooth, but when we went to sew Seymour back up, we realized we were out of the heavy sutures your supposed to use for large dogs. So the doctor decided that if we tripled up on cat sutures, that should do the trick. Well, a few days go by, and the old man calls up hysterical. The sutures had burst while he was at work, and by the time he got home, Seymour was sprawled out on the back porch with his guts spread all over the concrete, and the fence was soaked in blood all around the yard. It was a mess [Adam stares in disgust] I had to sew that one back up.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Polly: Do you feel weird doing this?
  2. May Canady: I am weird.
  3. Polly: I love weird.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: There's an Argenta playing at the Beverly in 15 minutes. I took the afternoon off. They're showing 'Trauma.'
  2. May Canady: Is that a movie?
  3. Adam: You've never seen 'Trauma'?!
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: (to her doll) - I'll bet you're wondering what I'm making. Okay, I'll tell you. I saw someone today; a boy. You know how when you meet someone...and you think you like them? And then, the more you talk to them, you see parts that you don't like. Like that guy on the bench. And sometimes, you end up not liking any parts at all. But this boy is different. I like every part of him. Especially his hands, they're beautiful. Don't be mad, you've been my friend my whole life. And you see me, you always have, but I need a real friend. Someone I can hold.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: Whatcha reading about?
  2. May Canady: Amputation.
  3. Adam: Is that for work?
  4. May Canady: Nope. It's just for fun.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Polly: What the hell is a scupel?
  2. May Canady: Scalpel?
  3. Polly: Ohhhh.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: Does this stuff freak you out?
  2. May Canady: Nothing freaks me out.
  3. Adam: That's right, it wouldn't, would it? (Adam pulls out a fake knife) You're on to me. I'm a psycho.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: I love your hands. I think they're beautiful.
  2. Adam: I used to be a hand model.
  3. May Canady: I could see you doing that.
  4. Adam: I'm kidding, May.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Blank: Hey, you want to go get some Jujubes with me?
  2. May Canady: What's the point?
  3. Blank: (looks saddened) - I'm just trying to be friendly.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Polly: Do you like pussy?
  2. May Canady: What?
  3. Polly: Cats! You like pussy cats?
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Blank: (opens up May's freezer and sees a dead cat inside) - What the fu*k is that?
  2. May Canady: A friend.
  3. Blank: Whoa. This is some sick sh*t.
  4. May Canady: So, are we like best friends now that you've seen what's in my freezer?
  5. Blank: You fu*king freak. I'm not going to be your friend.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: Race cars?
  2. Adam: What's that? Oh, yeah! (embarrassed, he tries to hide his underpants) My, uh, girlfriend bought me these.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: See me. See me. See me.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: So many pretty parts and no pretty wholes.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: (opens his front door and sees May standing there) - May, you scared the hell out of me! What are you doing out here?
  2. May Canady: Nothing.
  3. Adam: How long have you been standing out here?
  4. May Canady: Since about 2:00.
  5. Adam: You haven't really been standing out here for two hours, have you?
  6. May Canady: (smiles) - What do you think?
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: You don't think I'm weird?
  2. Adam: I do think you're weird.
  3. May Canady: I knew that.
  4. Adam: I like weird. I like weird a lot.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: (when asked if she had 'any cold ones? in her cooler; containing actual body parts) Yes, I do.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: (May tries kissing him, but she gets too rough and Adam backs off) - Whoa! Jesus Christ! Who taught you how to kiss?
  2. May Canady: (referring to her doll) - Suzie.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: (after showing May his student made horror film) - So, what did you think?
  2. May Canady: It was sweet.
  3. Adam: It was sweet?
  4. May Canady: I don't think she could've got his finger off in one bite, though. That part seemed a little far-fetched.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: I need more parts.
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. May Canady: (to Suzy, the doll) - I told you to face the goddamn wall!
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)

• 1. Adam: (while kissing May for the first time, she bites his lip) - Owe! God damn it! (Adam looks around her room and sees May's weird doll) ...What the fu*k is that? (he then notices his lip is bleeding) ...Oh, fu*k, I'm bleeding.
  2. May Canady: I know. [May begins sexually wiping Adams blood on her body]
  3. Adam: (weirded out by May's action) - May, what are you doing? Please. I need a towel. [May just smiles at him, still wiping his blood on her] I think, I think I'm gonna go.
  4. May Canady: What?
  5. Adam: I'll see you around.
  6. May Canady: (referring to Adams student horror film) - But it's just like your movie.
  7. Adam: May, this is weird.
  8. May Canady: (smiles) - You like weird.
  9. Adam: (looks at her disgusted) - Not that weird. [Adam walks out of her room]
  From May. Submitted by Creep F (11 months ago)