Jessica Wilhern Quotes in Penelope (2006)

Jessica Wilhern: What are they doing?

Franklin Wilhern: She's finding his instrument.

Jessica Wilhern: Isn't that something a man should do for himself?

Duty Cop: Detailed description?

Jessica Wilhern: Brown hair. Brown eyes.

[pause]

Jessica Wilhern: A unique... ly pleasant personality.

Franklin Wilhern: Think pig.

Duty Cop: So she's a fat girl?

Jessica Wilhern: [Penelope is digging into junk food] What are you doing?

Penelope: Just speeding things up.

Jessica Wilhern: Oh, so now you're just going to make a pig of yourself?

Penelope: No, that's already been done for me.

Jessica Wilhern: [Slaps food out of Penelope's hand] Stop it!

Penelope: ...That was the last of the Ho-Hos!

Jessica Wilhern: Honey, just think about what you're doing. This is the moment we have worked so hard for.

Penelope: I said go away!

Jessica Wilhern: Sweetheart, please! Please, we are one yes away from a whole new life, a whole new you!

Penelope: But I don't want a whole new me, mother!

Jessica Wilhern: Sweetheart please, please.

Penelope: I like myself the way I am!

Franklin Wilhern: Why can't I have bacon?

Jessica Wilhern: Because you love oatmeal.

Franklin Wilhern: No... I love bacon.

Jessica Wilhern: Penelope, just one man, one man.

Penelope: And he'll run too! They always run. Why can't you accept that? For seven years I've been watching them run. Do you have any idea how that makes me feel? Do you?

Jessica Wilhern: I'm sorry, but we just can't quit.

Penelope: We can, because no matter how much I want to believe there's one man who won't run away, one man who... who...

Jessica Wilhern: What? I'm being her mother! That's what mothers do with daughters; they talk about how to look prettier.