“Howard, we want you to know: you're our son, and we'll always love you, gay, straight, red, green, if you rob a bank, if you kill someone.”

Debbie Reynolds - Berniece Brackett

“- Ma Beckoff: Arnold, think about the boy. The way you live is bound to affect him!
- Arnold Beckoff: Ma, David is gay!
- Ma Beckoff: He hasn't even been here a year!
- Arnold Beckoff: He came that way!
- Ma Beckoff: Nobody comes that way!
- Arnold Beckoff: What an opening!”

Anne Bancroft - Ma Beckoff
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“- Jennifer 'Jenny' Morgan: I heard about your good news, congratulations, the children will finally have a mother again.
- Vivian Berger: Oh, I wouldn't go that far, boarding schools in Switzerland are year-round you know.”
Heidi Lenhart - Jennifer 'Jenny' Morgan
Jane Sibbett - Vivian Berger

“Mom's always know how much their kids love them, even if they don't tell them all the time.”
Elizabeth Mitchell - Julia Sullivan

“- Kala: I'm your mother. I know everything. Now, where have you been?
- Tarzan: I thought you knew everything.”
Glenn Close - Kala
Tony Goldwyn - Tarzan