Toni Collette movie quotes

“- Rose: My Marcia has a vagina alright, but My Marcia's vagina is made of solid 24 karat gold!
- Maggie: My Marcia's vagina is so perfect, it's in a museum!”
Toni Collette - Rose
Cameron Diaz - Maggie

“Sometimes it hits you how quickly the present fades into the past, and you question everything around you. You wonder if anything you'd ever do would matter.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“When I feel bad I like to treat myself. Clothes never look any good... food just makes me fatter... shoes always fit.”
Toni Collette - Rose

“You live in terror of not being misunderstood.”
Toni Collette - Mandy Slade

“Girlfriends, big or small, thin or fat, worship that body, it's the only one you've got.”
Toni Collette - Carla

“- Grandpa Edwin Hoover: When you're young, you're crazy to do that shit.
- Frank Ginsberg: Well what about you?
- Grandpa Edwin Hoover: What about me? I'm old. When you're old you're crazy not to do it.”

Toni Collette - Sheryl Hoover
Steve Carrell - Frank Ginsberg
Alan Arkin - Grandpa Edwin Hoover

“- Fiona Brewer: Will, am I a bad mother?
- Will Freeman: No. No, you're not a bad mother. You're just a barking lunatic.”
Toni Collette - Fiona Brewer
Hugh Grant - Will Freeman

“You're not going to look like this forever, you know. Eventually you'll be older, and all of the men who foot your bill now will be buying drinks for women half your age and then what will you do? Well, you'd better think of something because middle-aged tramps aren't cute, they're pathetic.”

Toni Collette - Rose

“- Muriel Heslop: He said if I ever left him, he would find out who I was living with and shoot them. Then, he'd shoot me, then himself.
- Rhonda Epinstalk: Shit, he really loved you, didn't he?”
Toni Collette - Muriel Heslop
Rachel Griffiths - Rhonda Epinstalk

“I once read that there are two kinds of time: mechanical and human. You could say my story began at 8:59 the day I started that job, and ended months later, when I left it. But I'd tell you it began in the past, with my old self; and ended in the future, the new one.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“- Emma Woodhouse: What's to be done?
- Harriet Smith: Must something be done about it?”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Emma Woodhouse
Toni Collette - Harriet Smith

“Sometimes I thought about what Margaret said. About how a person can just drift through life like they're not connected to anyone or anything. You look around - all those characters trying to kill time. Going around in circles. Even if a person wanted to break free, they could find out they've got nowhere else to go.”
Toni Collette - Iris Chapman

“- Muriel Heslop: I can't stay married to you, David. I have to stop lying now. I've told so many lies... I don't love you.
- David Van Arkle: I don't love you either, but I think I could like having you around.”
Toni Collette - Muriel Heslop
Daniel Lapaine - David Van Arkle

“- Cole Sear: A lady. She died.
- Lynn Sear: Oh, my god. What, you can see her?
- Cole Sear: Yes.
- Lynn Sear: Where is she?
- Cole Sear: Standing next to my window.
- Lynn Sear: Cole, you're scaring me.
- Cole Sear: They scare me too sometimes.
- Lynn Sear: They?
- Cole Sear: Ghosts.”
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear
Toni Collette - Lynn Sear

“Today there'd be fighting in the streets, but in 1972, it was more like dancing.”

Toni Collette - Mandy Slade

“My life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.”
Toni Collette - Muriel Heslop

“I needn't mention how essential dreaming is to the character of the rock star.”
Toni Collette - Mandy Slade

“- David Van Arkle: What kind of person marries someone they don't know?
- Muriel Heslop: You did.
- David Van Arkle: I want to win. All my life I've wanted to win.”
Daniel Lapaine - David Van Arkle
Toni Collette - Muriel Heslop

“- Brian Slade: They despised him.
- Mandy Slade: But when you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.”

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Brian Slade
Toni Collette - Mandy Slade