Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma Quotes in Saving Face (2004)

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] Your neighbor is loud and dark and eats too much soy sauce.

Wil: [in Mandarin] Americans like soy sauce.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: I'm going to start eating less soy sauce so it won't stain the baby too dark.

Wil: [in English] Ma, that's ridiculous.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: You eat less too, so you don't grow spots.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [passes soy sauce bottle to Jay]

Jay - Neighbor: Thanks.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [smiles] Too late for him anyway.

[Wil and Ma watching a soap opera]

Wil: Is that the good guy?

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: No, he's marrying her for money.

Wil: Is that the good guy?

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: No, that's his brother.

Wil: Who's that guy?

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: He's the most evil of them all, he wants to ruin her family to avenge a grudge.

Wil: Who's the loser they're beating up?

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: That's the good guy.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: So, when are you gonna have a baby?

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] Is that how you speak to your ma who worked nights so you could eat? Who stayed in labor without painkillers so you wouldn't turn dim-witted like your cousin Jimmy? Had I known you would grow so ungrateful I would have held you in.

Wil: Ma, you can't give him a paper plate.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] Safer this way. Throw it out afterwards.

Wil: It's rude.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] I'll give him two.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] No one wants to see a 50-year-old Chinese woman look sexy.

Wil: Ma, you're only 48.

[in Mandarin]

Wil: Connie Chung's sexy, and she must be nearly 60.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: Her show was cancelled.

Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma: [in Mandarin] Chinese people cannot wear yellow.