Helen Thermopolis Quotes in The Princess Diaries (2001)

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Where is she going?

Helen Thermopolis: The tower.

[getting up from the table and going after Mia]

Helen Thermopolis: Mia, You can't run from everything!

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: She has a tower?

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Helen, if Amelia refuses to accept the throne, then Genovia will cease to exist as we know it.

Helen Thermopolis: So the future of your country is in the hands my 15-year-old?

Helen Thermopolis: Mia, the-the three of us have to talk.

Mia: Oh, OK. Um, is there maybe something else about me and my life that just maybe I might want to know about? Um-oh no, are you two waiting to take me on a talk show somewhere and to let me know I have a twin sister who's a duchess?

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: You have a cousin who's a contessa. Fondly known as Bartholomew. Actually, we call him Pookie.

Mia: [on her green bathing suit] Okay I look like an asparagus.

Helen Thermopolis: But a very, very cute asparagus!

Helen Thermopolis: This is getting us nowhere! Talk to me!

Mia: I can't talk to you right now. I'm late for a meeting with my guidance counselor.

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: I'm late for a meeting with Spain and Portugal!

Helen Thermopolis: Where are you going?

Mia: I'm going up to straighten the royal bedchamber.

Helen Thermopolis: That Backstreet boy clone you've had a crush on for years?

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Helen Thermopolis: Time for school! Stop daydreaming, you'll be late for school.