Fences (2016)
Viola Davis: Rose Maxson
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Quotes
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Rose : I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom! And it didn't take me no 18 years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom!
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Rose : Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't, and at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was.
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Rose : From right now, this child's got a mother. But you're a womanless man.
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Rose : Everything that boy do, he do for you.
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Rose : I'll take care of your baby for you. 'Cause, like you say, she innocent. You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. Motherless child's got a hard time.
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Troy : [around 12:15 Troy talking about Death] ... and me and him
[Death]
Troy : commenced to wrestling... we wrestled for
[calculating with his fingers]
Troy : ... carry the 6... three days and three nights
Bono : [laughing hysterically]
Rose : [cracking up laughing]
Troy : [still telling story holding bottle of gin in his left hand as Bono and Rose still laughing]
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Rose : Anything he can't understand, he want to call it the devil.
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Rose : Go on back in there, go to bed, and get up on the other side.
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Rose : I told you, a watched pot never boils.