▤「I'm not guilty. I'm not innocent. I'm just trying to survive.」「In this courtroom, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion and sexual orientation. → We don't live in this courtroom, do we?」「I am love.」
提尔在初段的故事最贴近实际也最能打动人:No one of you has the right to condemn Bess to the hell! 艾米丽所演出的形象,在神经质中脱俗于世,她对爱情的信仰,更显得世俗宗教权力的虚伪与冷漠。很难相信这竟是艾米丽的处女演出——笑的时候她像纯洁的天使,哭的时候她像无助的恶魔。