Mother quotes

“- Nick Styles: Do it for your mother.
- Odessa: What about my mother, motherfucker?
- Nick Styles: Your mother, nigga! The one that died of a broken heart, praying with my father every night over your sorry ass. The one that buried your kid brother without his head because they couldn't find it. Don't play me, Odessa.”

Denzel Washington - Nick Styles
Ice-T - Odessa

“- Katniss Everdeen: You can't tune out again.
- Katniss' Mother: I won't.
- Katniss Everdeen: No. You can't. Not like when Dad died. I won't be there anymore, and you're all she has. No matter what you feel, you have to be there for her. Do you understand?”
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen
Paula Malcomson - Katniss' Mother

“Are you here? Are you always here? I miss you. I think about you all the time. I hear your voice say my name when I dream and when I wake up, there are tears streaming down my face. I just miss you, it's as simple as that. I want to tell you everything. I don't understand what you're saying. I can't hear your voice.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Reynolds Woodcock

“For 18 years your mother is the most important person to you in your entire life. And then... and then... One day poof! You're gone. And then what are you supposed to do. Like, just adjust? Just like that?”
Goldie Hawn - Linda Middleton

“My mom will have an aneurysm, okay, if she finds out we're playing down here, I'm serious.”
Jack Dylan Grazer - Eddie Kaspbrak

“- Juan: I saw your mama last night.
- Little: I hate her.
- Juan: I bet you do. Hated mine too. Miss her like hell now. All I'm gonna say about that.”
Mahershala Ali - Juan
Alex R. Hibbert - Little

“All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, that's his.”
Kathy Bates - Aunt Mitsy

I still have this uncontrollable urge to just go up to people and say "My mother left me when I was seven!". As if that would explain everything. And I miss her. And I hate her!
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Virginia Lewis

“Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.”
Ellen Barkin

“- Lloyd: Mother.
- Rose: What?
- Lloyd: Is it possible for you to shut the fuck up for five minutes?”
Kevin Spacey - Lloyd
Glynis Johns - Rose

“The mother's injuries are to be handed down to the daughter. The mother's failures are to be paid for by the daughter. The mother's unhappiness is to be the daughter's unhappiness. It's as if the umbilical cord had never been cut.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“Even bad men love their mommas.”
Russell Crowe - Ben Wade

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”
Vince Vaughn - Norman Bates

“- Madison Bell: It's nice to finally meet your mother.
- Ben Cronin: What do you mean finally? You just met me.”
Erika Christensen - Madison Bell
Jesse Bradford - Ben Cronin

“My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.”
Alyssa Milano

“- 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 magazine...” (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