Mum Quotes in About Time (2013)

Tim: Mum, this is Mary.

Mum: Mary! Good Lord, you're pretty.

Mary: Oh, no. It's just... I've got a lot of mascara and lipstick on.

Mum: Let's have a look.

Mary: [presents her face]

Mum: Oh, yes. Good. It's very bad for a girl to be too pretty. It stops her developing a sense of humor. Or a personality.

Mum: I am fucking furious. I am so uninterested in a life without your father.

Mum: And what are your faults? I mean, little weaknesses.

Mary: Well, I'm very insecure.

Mum: Sweet.

[talking about Tim]

Mum: You were such an ugly baby. More chimpanzee than child. I remember the first time I saw you, I thanked God we were within driving distance of London Zoo.

Mum: Did you have a 3 ways?

Mum: [Sucking Lionel into her gaping womb] No-one will ever love you like your mother!

[the Sumatran rat monkey bites Mum, and she crushes it with the heel of her stiletto]

Zoo Keeper: Holy shit!

Mum: Look at this! It bit me. I've been savaged! And my dress!

Mum: [Grossly deformed and gigantic] Come to mummy Lionel!

Mum: YOU will look after me, Lionel.

Mum: There's a beetle. Under the fridge! Horrid little creature scuttled right in front of me! I though I told you spray this house! The place is infested with vermin.

Mum: [about Paquita] I'll tell you what she is. She's EXPERIENCED.

Mum: [Waving a knife around] Look at this dust! It's an inch thick!

Bridget Jones: I will not fuck it up again, Mum.

Mum: Bridget! Language!

Bridget Jones: Sorry. I will not fuck it up again... mother.

Mum: [to son] Honey, you go do a poo-poo. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Dad: Danny Glover had nothing to be afraid of in "Lethal Weapon 2."

Dad: Lots of people have died on the toilet.

Mum: Like who?

Dad: Elvis.

Mum: He died on the bathroom floor.

Dad: Yeah. Died on the toilet and then fell over.

Mum: The battle was so long that in 1958 the government had to make a truce. Benito Juarez agreed with the snowman that he could live in a cold-storage container with one condition - he could only go out at night and could only take the children who were not lying down after 8:00.

Man: Is he the Bogeyman?

Mum: If you have to choose, choose the Bogeyman.

Mum: WHAT! Aren't they feeding you?

Mum: Erc, just remember: your family's who you are

Erica Yurken: I hope not. I've got one sister who think's she's a horse, another, who's got a black belt in being a bitch, and bloddy Marley who's still mowing crop circles in the front lawn.

Mum: But you've not been to school all week, son.

Alex: Got to rest, Mum. Got to get fit. Otherwise I'm liable to miss a lot more school.

Mum: Well, like he says, it's mostly odd things he does. Helping like... here and there as it might be.

Conor: What do I do?

The Monster: Now all that is left is for you to speak the simplest truth of all.

Conor: I don't want you to go.

Mum: I know my love.

Conor: I don't want you to go...

Conor: How does the fourth story end?

The Monster: It ends with a boy holding on tight to his mother. And by doing so... he can finally let her go.

Mum: ...and if you have to break things, then by God, you break them!

Colin: Hello, Ma.

Mum: Hello, blitz baby.

Mum: You naugh'y boy!

Mum: All right you lazy sod, what you doin' in 'er anyway? Get upstairs and tack in the carpets!

Mum: You nasty lil' bastard.

Colin: Mother should know.

Mum: [Mother ties cravat around young Thomas] "staying real keep us alive. Stay strong and you will survive anything"

Mum: [Mother sits down admiring Thomas' cravat] "make your own decissions. That's the best way, believe me - it's the only way"