Quotes tagged ‘mother’

“And here's the trick they never tell you. Your mother needs you.”

— Amelia Spencer, Jack Thorne, Marisa Coulter, Ruth Wilson, imdb.com

“I'm an unnatural mother.”

— Maggie Gyllenhaal, Leda, Olivia Colman, imdb.com

“Boy, I love meeting people's moms. It's like reading an instruction manual as to why they're nuts.”

— Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis, imdb.com

“Motherhood is a mental illness.”

— Lorene Scafaria, Ramona Vega, Jennifer Lopez, imdb.com

“I'm not fixating, I'm mothering.”

— Liz Tigelaar, Elena Richardson, Reese Witherspoon, imdb.com

“I don't think you need to be a mother, though, you know, to know unconditional love.”

— Aisling Bea, Shona, Sharon Horgan, imdb.com

“David: You still haven’t met his mum? Shaun: Not yet! Dianne: Don’t you get on with your mum, Shaun? Shaun: It’s not that I don’t get on with her... David: Are you ashamed by your mum, Shaun? Shaun: No! I love my mum! Ed: I love his mum, too. Shaun: Ed! Ed: [singing] She’s like butter! Shaun: Ed.”

— Edgar Wright, Shaun, Simon Pegg, imdb.com

“I'm, like, in this little Muslim box in your head, and I'm the wife or the mother of your kids, right? I'm not supposed to cum.”

— Ryan Welch, Ari Katcher, Ramy Youssef, Nour, Dina Shihabi, imdb.com

“I track your phone. What am I not gonna track your phone? I'm your mother.”

— Elizabeth Meriwether, Lake Bell, Donna, Susie Essman, imdb.com

“Linda Fairstein: Who do you think you are? Sharon Salaam: I'm his mother.”

— Julian Breece, Ava DuVernay, Sharon Salaam, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com

“I try to be the mother that I didn’t have. I try to be all those things that I wanted. I try to be nurturing, I try to be their friend, and I try to be there for them.”

— Madonna, amazon.com

“My mother and I had many conversations, but most of them were about her, her upbringing, her development and how I could please her. And my sister is great, but we were never emotionally close. So I think that a lot of my inability to get close with people is based on all of that. I was always an ou…”

— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com

“The ability to interview people and read your subject comes from my mother being very demanding of me with one thing: that I should be able to read her mood and know what she wanted. I could look in my mother’s eyes and know everything. When she was sad, when she was angry, what she was thinking. I…”

— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com

“I loved my mother. I wanted her to smile, to believe that I was doing the right thing. But that wasn’t going to happen. So I ducked my head and kept on going.”

— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com

“Michael Banks: [from trailer; as he gazes at the snow globe of St. Paul's Cathedral, then bringing out his and Jane's kite] I honestly can't remember why we kept most of this stuff to begin with. Jane Banks: [snatching the kite away] Don't you remember that kite? We used to love flying that with Mot…”

— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Julie Andrews, Michael Banks, Ben Whishaw, imdb.com

“'My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure (food, music, the aesthetics of nature). Deeply religious but seemingly as comforted by singing a secular chanson as by prayer. A lover of the natural world who w…”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“My mother was a saint. She will have no books written about her. But she was a saint.”

— Richard Nixon, Mackenzie Ryan, desmoinesregister.com

“Edith Cushing: You're monsters. Both of you! Lucille Sharpe: Funny. That's the last thing Mother said, too.”

— Matthew Robbins, Guillermo Del Toro, Edith Cushing, Mia Wasikowska, imdb.com

“Semiyon Kleiman: It will get easier now. Tanya tells me your mother is not well. Her kidneys? Lyudmilla Nikolayeva: She needs an operation. Semiyon Kleiman: We will see to it. We help each other. I have many friends who will like you. Men I do business with. No. Don't worry. I don't expect you to do…”

— Hossein Amini, James Watkins, Semiyon Kleinman, David Strathairn, imdb.com

“Max, there's something I didn't tell you before. I didn't wanna get into it. I guess because the more we talked, the harder it was to go through with what I had to do. It's about your mother. I did know her. She wasn't like the others. Seven months into her pregnancy, she tried to escape, because sh…”

— Patrick Harbinson, Hannah Sukova, Eileen Pedde, imdb.com