Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Angela Bassett: Mildred
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Quotes
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Mildred : [talking on the phone] We'll see you at 2:00 this afternoon. He'll be so excited you're coming. Bye-bye, now.
[Mildred hangs up]
Mildred : Yes! Hey, Goob - I mean, Michael, good luck at the big game today!
Michael "Goob" Yagoobian : [sleepily] Easy win, those guys are a bunch of bums. I just hope I can stay awake.
Mildred : Don't tell me, let me guess...
Michael "Goob" Yagoobian : He was up all night, working on his stupid project.
[yawns]
Michael "Goob" Yagoobian : But that's what happens when you get a science geek for a roommate.
Michael "Goob" Yagoobian : [Yagoobian sips his juice box, and trades it to Mildred in exchange for her mug of coffee, which he drinks] Ahh, that's good joe.
Mildred : [Mildred sees Lewis in his bedroom, working on his invention] All right, Einstein, you owe Michael big time.
Lewis : Well, unlocking the secrets of the brain took a lot longer than I expected, but it's finished, Mildred; I re-calibrated the headset.
[Lewis shows his illustrated scientific notes to Mildred]
Lewis : Now the neural circuits will connect! I've cracked the hippocampus!
Mildred : Really? Okay, what?
Lewis : Now to test it out.
[Lewis's alarm clock goes off; he starts putting his invention model into a wagon]
Lewis : Oh no, I'm late! I gotta go!
Mildred : Wait a minute, Lewis, wait a minute.
[Mildred briefly laughs]
Mildred : I almost forgot what I came up here for. I know you have a lot on your plate today, but I've scheduled an interview for you this afternoon.
Lewis : No thanks.
Mildred : No thanks? Sweetheart, this is about being adopted, and you will be back here clean, happy, and on time.
Lewis : I'm done with interviews, Mildred. I'm not gonna be rejected anymore.
Mildred : Listen, I know where your head is, but I'm telling you, you have got to get out of the past and look to the future.
Lewis : I am, and this is it. This is my future. I'm sorry.
[Lewis heads out the front door towards the elementary school's science fair]
Mildred : Lewis? Honey?
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Mildred : It's not you. we just haven't found the right couple yet.
Lewis : 124.
Mildred : [gently] What?
Lewis : That's how many adoption interviews I've had, 124.
Mildred : Oh Lewis, come on now, you're exaggerating just to make your... point.
[Lewis turns the crate around with 124 tally marks on it]
Lewis : Plus, I'm gonna be 13 next year, and you know how hard it is for a teenager to get adopted. I have no future, no one wants me!
Mildred : That's not true, Lewis!
Lewis : My own mother didn't even want me!
Mildred : Now stop it! You do not know that!
Lewis : Then why did she give me up?
Mildred : She may not have been able to take care of you, did you ever think of that?
[Lewis turns silent]
Mildred : I am sure she was only thinking about what was best for you.
Lewis : I never thought of it that way.
Mildred : Maybe she wanted to keep you, but she had no choice.
Lewis : You're right! My real mom is the only person who's ever wanted me.
Mildred : Wait, I said 'maybe'.
Lewis : If she wanted me then, she'll want me now!
Mildred : What are you talking about?
Lewis : I have to find her, Mildred, and when I do, she'll take me back, and we'll be a family again!
Mildred : Whoa, whoa, whoa, Lewis! You can't do that! No one knows anything about her, no one even saw her!
Lewis : [Lewis looks up at a billboard that says "Remember your Ginkgo Biloba"] Wrong, I saw her... once, she's in here. I just have to remember.
