Elizabeth Osbourne Quotes in Transamerica (2005)

Sydney: There's this scruffy looking kid outside. If he's your boyfriend, I'm totally going to slit my wrists.

Elizabeth Osbourne: That dirty-looking boy who came to the door a second ago is your boyfriend? How old is he?

Bree Osbourne: 17.

Elizabeth Osbourne: Oh, my God, Murray, he's underage!

Bree Osbourne: Mom, he's my son.

Elizabeth Osbourne: Look at your life. You've never been able to stick to a decision. I mean, 10 years of college and not a single degree. How do you know you won't change your mind about this, too?

[brief pause]

Bree Osbourne: Because I know.

Elizabeth Osbourne: Don't do this awful thing to yourself, please. I miss my son.

Bree Osbourne: Mom, you never had a son.

Elizabeth Osbourne: [crying] How can you say such a thing?

Bree Osbourne: Now you know how I felt when you hired those private detectives.

Elizabeth Osbourne: [crying] We only tried to do the best for you.

Bree Osbourne: Is that why you tried to have me committed?

Elizabeth Osbourne: [shouting] You tried to kill yourself!

Bree Osbourne: Because you tried to have me committed!

Elizabeth Osbourne: I don't know why you have to be so emotional.

Bree Osbourne: [shouting] I am not emotional!

[normally]

Bree Osbourne: God, my cycle's all out of whack.

Elizabeth Osbourne: You don't have cycles!

Bree Osbourne: Hormones are hormones. Yours and mine just happen to come in purple little pills.

[from trailer]

Murray: Your mother and I both love you.

Elizabeth Osbourne: But we don't respect you!