August: Osage County (2013)
Julia Roberts: Barbara Weston
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Quotes
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Barbara Weston : Thank God we can't tell the future, we'd never get out of bed.
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Violet Weston : I'm not hungry!
Barbara Weston : Eat the fish, bitch!
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Ivy Weston : Mom, Charles and I...
Barbara Weston : Little Charles.
Ivy Weston : Barbara.
Barbara Weston : You got to say Little Charles or she's not gonna know who you're talking about.
Ivy Weston : Little Charles and I... Little Charles and I...
Violet Weston : Little Charles and you are brother and sister. I know that.
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Barbara Weston : Marriage is hard.
Karen Weston : That's one thing about mom and dad. You gotta tip your hat to anybody who can stay married that long.
Ivy Weston : Karen, he killed himself.
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Violet Weston : Karen! Shame on you! Don't you know you're not supposed to say "Cowboys and Indians"? You played "Cowboys and Native Americans". Right, Barb?
Barbara Weston : What are you taking? What pills?
Violet Weston : Oh, leave me alone.
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Violet Weston : You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house!
Barbara Weston : You don't get it, do you? You don't get it! I AM running things now!
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Barbara Weston : It's the pills talking.
Violet Weston : Pills can't talk!
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Barbara Weston : Are we breaking shit now, huh? I can break shit! Hey! See, everybody can break some shit!
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Violet Weston : Truth is you just can't compete with a younger woman. It's just one of those unfair things in life. Is there a younger woman involved?
Barbara Weston : Isn't enough on this topic?
Bill Fordham : Yes, there is a younger woman.
Violet Weston : Well, see? Odds are against you there, babe.
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Barbara Weston : Listen to me! Die after me, alright. I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just
[pause]
Barbara Weston : survive.
[pause]
Barbara Weston : Please!
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Barbara Weston : It's not my fault. Mom told you, not me.
Ivy Weston : There's no difference.
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Barbara Weston : What were these people thinking, the jokers who settled this place? Who was the asshole that looked at all that flat, hot nothing, and then planted his flag? I mean, we fucked the Indians for this?
Bill Fordham : Well, genocide always seems like such a good idea at the time.
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Bill Fordham : I have not forsook my responsibilities!
Barbara Weston : It's "forsaken," big shot.
Bill Fordham : No, actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage.
Barbara Weston : Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rode in on.
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Barbara Weston : I want you to know you're not alone, if you need any help.
Violet Weston : No... I dont need help...
Barbara Weston : I-I wanna help...
Violet Weston : I dont need your help.
Barbara Weston : Mom...
Violet Weston : I dont need your help. I have got myself... I know how this goes. Once all the talking is threw, people just go back to their own nonsenses. I know that so, dont worry about me. I will manage.
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Bill Fordham : You're so goddam self-righteous, you know that?
Barbara Weston : Surely you must have realized when you started porking Pippi Longstocking that you were due for some self-righteousness, just a smudge of indignation on my part!
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[repeated line]
Barbara Weston : Eat your fish.
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Barbara Weston : Holy shit that's Karen! You remember your Aunt Karen?
Jean Fordham : Kind of.
Barbara Weston : And that must be this year's man!
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Ivy Weston : Little Charles and I...
Violet Weston : Little Charles and you are brother and sister. I know that.
Violet Weston : [dumbfounded] What? No! Listen. Little Charles and I...
Violet Weston : I've always known that. I told you, no one slips anything by me.
Ivy Weston : Mom!
Barbara Weston : Don't listen.
Violet Weston : I knew the whole time Bev and Mattie Fae were carrying on. Charlie should've known too, if he hadn't been smoking all that grass.
Barbara Weston : It's the pills talking.
Violet Weston : Pills can't talk! Your father tore himself up about it thirty-some-odd years. But Beverly wouldn't be Beverly if he hadn't had something to brood about!
Ivy Weston : Mom, what are you talking about?
Violet Weston : Better you girls know now. Now, you're older, you never know when somebody might need a kidney.
Ivy Weston : Why in God's name did you tell me this?
Violet Weston : Hey, why do you care?
Ivy Weston : [to both] You're monsters.
Violet Weston : Oh, come on, now.
Ivy Weston : Monsters!
[leaves]
Violet Weston : [calling after Ivy] Who's the injured party here?
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Barbara Weston : And you really haven't been much of a parent lately.
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Barbara Weston : But her fourteen-year-old self might view it differently.