Mother quotes

“My mother always said that silence can be the loudest thing. But she never shut the fuck up.”
Yael Stone - Lorna Morello

“You used to be a little person who did what I said.”
Amy Poehler - Lisa

“Belle-Papa, do you think I’m odd?
Maurice-Odd? My daughter, odd? Where did you get an idea like that?
Belle-I don’t know. People talk.
Maurice-This is a small village, you know. Small minded as well. But small also means safe. Even back in Paris, I knew a girl like you, who was so ahead of her time. So different. People mocked her. Until the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emma Watson - Belle
Kevin Kline - Maurice

“ My son was born in 1964. He grew up with a meaningless war, with protests, with Nixon, with nice cars and nice houses, computers, drugs, boredom. I know him less every day.”
Annette Bening - Dorothea Fields

“Bobbi-Your hair looks terrible.
Ava-Thank you.
Bobbi-Well, it just sits there like, meh. You could wear it with some style. You’re not in the army anymore.
Ava-Well, I don’t have anyone to impress.”
Jessica Chastain - Ava
Geena Davis - Bobbi

“Vivian-Hey, mom, what do sixteen year-olds care about?
Vivian’s Mom-When I was sixteen, all I cared about was smashing the patriarchy and burning it all down.”
Amy Poehler - Vivian’s Mom
Hadley Robinson - Vivian

“Though I’m no longer a wife, except by a legal fiction, I believe I can learn to be a mother.”
Marielle Heller - Alma Wheatley

“- Medora Slone: What did it feel like to shoot that female wolf?
- Russell Core: It felt awful. But... I really had no choice. Even though she'd taken a child, too?
- Medora Slone: Because you think it's the natural order?
- Russell Core: The natural order doesn't warrant revenge. They're not what you think, Mrs. Slone. What happened here...” (continue)(continue reading)
Riley Keough - Medora Slone
Jeffrey Wright - Russell Core

“It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.”
Laurence Harvey - Raymond Shaw

“- Norman Bates: It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
- Marion Crane: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.”
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane

“- Marion Crane: Do you go out with friends?
- Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.”
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Mrs. Restes: You'll miss my wedding!
- Jimmy Foster: Mother, I have never missed one of your weddings.
- Mrs. Restes: Yes, you did. My first one.”
Ilka Chase - Mrs. Restes
Peter Lawford - Jimmy Foster

“After I first met my mom she couldn’t pronounce my identify. My father prompt that they rename me. They picked Luce, which suggests mild.”
Kelvin Harrison Jr. - Luce Edgar

“- Lora Meredith: Now, just a moment, young lady! It's only because of my ambition that you've had the best of everything. And that's a solid achievement that any mother can be proud of!
- Susie, age 16: And how about a mother's love?
- Lora Meredith: Love? But you've always had that!
- Susie, age 16: Yes, by telephone, by postcard, by...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lana Turner - Lora Meredith
Sandra Dee - Susie - 16

“I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.”
Nina Arianda

“- Princess Aouda: Have there been any women in his life?
- Passepartout: I assume he had a mother, but I am not certain.”

Shirley MacLaine - Princess Aouda
Cantinflas - Passepartout

“People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want...” (continue)(continue reading)
Laura Dern - Nora Fanshaw

“You don't get it, Barnum. It's not about the money. Our own mothers were ashamed of us, they hid us our whole lives.”
Keala Settle - Lettie Lutz

“- Baravelli: Do you honor your father and mother?
- Titta: Yes, but they don't honor me. They beat me.
- Baravelli: You must annoy them.”
Gianfilippo Carcano - Baravelli
Bruno Zanin - Titta

“My mother had fled an arranged marriage, left her whole world behind, but in my father's lighthouse, she had found something unexpected. And my father found the love of his life.”
Jason Momoa - Arthur

“I was eight years old when my mother died. She loved traveling the world and digging up the past. He used to visit all the time, and then one day everything changed. She'd found something, something he wanted.”
Hera Hilmar - Hester Shaw

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou

“- Dr. Austin Sloper: Do you remember her mother? Her mother who had so much grace and gaiety. This is her child.
- Elizabeth Almond: Austin, no child could compete with this image you have of her mother.
- Dr. Austin Sloper: You're not entitled to say that. Only I know what I lost when she died and what I got in her place.”

Ralph David Richardson - Dr. Austin Sloper
Selena Royle - Elizabeth Almond

“- Elton John: I'm... a homosexual. A poofter... a fairy... a queen... well say something!
- Sheila: Oh, for God's sake, I knew that. I've known for years.”
Taron Egerton - Elton John
Bryce Dallas Howard - Sheila

“- Max: I brought you flowers.
- Ida: What'm I do with flowers?
- Max: Cheer up.
- Ida: How? By worrying that you spend money on stuff that's just gon' wilt and die?”
Jamie Foxx - Max
Irma P. Hall - Ida