Before You Go (2002)

Patricia Hodge: Vi

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."

• Vi : Don't walk away from me, you've done that all your life. I don't know how this happened. I look at you and I think you've come out wrong. All of you. You seem like nice personable people, but I don't know what you've got to do with me.

• Vi : Despair is the last refuge of the ego... I got that out of reader's digest.