Before You Go (2002)

Joanne Whalley: Mary

Quotes 

• Vi : I can't seem to get the hang of any of you. You have no patience with me, and I had years of patience with you. You buy things with plastic cards and you drink champagne whenever you feel like it and you do all that because of me. Because I made sure you'd get somewhere.

  Mary : Your idea of getting somewhere was marrying a dentist in a sheepskin coat from the Rotary Club.

  Vi : You invent these versions of me and I don't recognize myself.

• Vi : Oh yes, they all loved me, and I loved the men. Never cared for the women, never really took to them.

  Mary : Pity you had three daughters, isn't it?

• Vi : I am proud of you and you are ashamed of me.

  Mary : I am not.

  Vi : You say it all the time. "I'm not like my mother, I'm not. I'm not. I'm like my father."

• Teresa : You see? We're our mother's daughters. Always take the man's side, even when he is a complete pile of crap. Our father, Mike, hardly spoke to our mother during the forty eight years they were married.

  Mary : Somebody take the whiskey from her.

  Teresa : He was like a professional mute, and fucking someone else for most of the time.