“Because I Said So” quotes

“- Jason: You and I can get closer. Close enough to spend the rest of our lives together. I knew I had you the day I met you.
- Milly: How could you know something like that?
- Jason: Because you were so nervous you laughed like a hyena, in that beautiful polka-dot dress of yours.”
Tom Everett Scott - Jason
Mandy Moore - Milly

“Oy vey. Mom's ass is so tight, it's vacuum sealed.”

Mia Crowe - Sung Mi

“- Mae: Mom, why do you always wear the high tops?
- Daphne Wilder: I just got these, what's wrong with these?
- Maggie: There just kinda depressing.”
Piper Perabo - Mae
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder
Lauren Graham - Maggie

“Even before I met you I had an instinct about you. Once I saw you were a woman with profound static cling I wanted to be that force around you.”

Gabriel Macht - Johnny

“- Daphne Wilder: What are you gonna do with your hair? Maybe you oughta button these buttons, you look like you're asking for it.
- Milly: I am asking for it!”
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder
Mandy Moore - Milly

“- Daphne Wilder: Milly, honey, why are you so quiet?
- Mae: 'Cause she's doing the oompa-loompa with two guys, mom.”
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder
Lauren Graham - Maggie

“Mom for your 60th birthday we'll buy you something beautiful, something that grandma Moses would not wear.”
Mandy Moore - Milly

“You're not a helicopter, mom. Quit hovering.”
Piper Perabo - Mae

“- Milly: You and my mom have been totally scheming. And and and and now I know exactly why she pushed me on you because she was voting for you. She found you.
- Jason: Yeah but that doesn't take anything away from us. What matters is that we did meet, and how good this is between us. And the truth of that...”
Mandy Moore - Milly
Tom Everett Scott - Jason

“- Daphne Wilder: Cooper is in heat.
- Maggie: Mom, Cooper is a boy.”
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder
Lauren Graham - Maggie

“- Maggie: Listen! You're right! I didn't handle this well. And I understand you feel betrayed! But, really, isn't some of this anger a little misplaced?
- Milly: No! No, Maggie! It's placed exactly where it should be and there is plenty to go around, so don't worry, mom will be getting hers!”
Lauren Graham - Maggie
Mandy Moore - Milly

“You did not have me the moment that we met because I'm not even sure I like the fact that your staff talked about you behind your back at the dessert table. And excuse me but truth be told I didn't like anything that you ordered for me on our first date except the calamari.”

Mandy Moore - Milly

“Should have told me I don't feel like myself around you. And I would have decided that. A long time ago if it weren't for my mother. Because who wants someone who laughs like a hyena in a polka dot dress that my mother made me buy.”

Mandy Moore - Milly

“God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.”
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder

“- Milly: Where is the truth, because you've been living a lie and I've been lying to you Jason.
- Jason: Yeah but that doesn't change anything.”
Mandy Moore - Milly
Tom Everett Scott - Jason

“Gotta love a woman in polka dots. Not everyone can pull it off.”
Tom Everett Scott - Jason

“I love that when I breathe you in you smell like cake batter. And I love that you have this insane way of talking in circles that makes perfect sense.”

Gabriel Macht - Johnny

“- Milly: Cause sometimes I feel like nobody understands me. But...
- Johnny: Me. I get you.”
Mandy Moore - Milly
Gabriel Macht - Johnny

“- Daphne Wilder: Well, who would you choose for my daughter?
- Johnny: Me.
- Daphne Wilder: What? No way! Oh, please. I am not setting my daughter up with an attractive, charming musician who will just break her heart.
- Johnny: Wow. I love being reduced to a cultural cliche.”
Diane Keaton - Daphne Wilder
Gabriel Macht - Johnny

But who wants someone that doesn't think? Look! And sometimes you laugh when I cry, and you say "huh" when I make perfect sense.

Mandy Moore - Milly