Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Archie Panjabi

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Louis C. K.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Andrew Dominik

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

Giovanni Ribisi

Lester Burnham: You better watch yourself, Jane, or you're going to turn into a real BITCH, just like your MOTHER!

American Beauty

Lester Burnham: [talking to Carolyn about Jane] Oh, what? You're mother of the year? You treat her like an employee.

American Beauty

Tick: [to Felicia] Is it true when you were born the doctor turned around and slapped your mother?

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Tick: What do you assume I do? Lie? Marion: Assumption, my dear Mitz, is the mother of all fuck-ups.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Margo Channing: Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother. Eve Harrington: I'm sorry, I...

All About Eve

[worried about Jasmine's refusal to choose a suitor] Sultan: I don't know where she gets it from. Her mother wasn't nearly so picky.

Aladdin

Huma Rojo: But can you act? Manuela: I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.

All About My Mother

Butch Cassidy: [singing] Don't ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Mitsuko Souma's mother: [very drunkenly] Be strong, Mitsuko. If ya ain't strong, you'll end up just like me.

Battle Royale

Abby: Ray? Ray: You're bad. Abby: What? Ray: I said you're bad. Abby: [long pause, then smiles] You're bad too. Ray: We're both bad.

Blood Simple.

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

Aneurin Barnard

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

America Ferrera

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Anna Freud

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

Alan Garner

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Ariel Gore

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

Anne Heche

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

Ann Hood