Transamerica (2005)

Fionnula Flanagan: Elizabeth

Quotes 

• Sydney : There's this scruffy looking kid outside. If he's your boyfriend, I'm totally going to slit my wrists.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : That dirty-looking boy who came to the door a second ago is your boyfriend? How old is he?

  Bree Osbourne : 17.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : Oh, my God, Murray, he's underage!

  Bree Osbourne : Mom, he's my son.

• Elizabeth Osbourne : Look at your life. You've never been able to stick to a decision. I mean, 10 years of college and not a single degree. How do you know you won't change your mind about this, too?

  [brief pause] 

  Bree Osbourne : Because I know.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : Don't do this awful thing to yourself, please. I miss my son.

  Bree Osbourne : Mom, you never had a son.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : [crying]  How can you say such a thing?

  Bree Osbourne : Now you know how I felt when you hired those private detectives.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : [crying]  We only tried to do the best for you.

  Bree Osbourne : Is that why you tried to have me committed?

  Elizabeth Osbourne : [shouting]  You tried to kill yourself!

  Bree Osbourne : Because you tried to have me committed!

  Elizabeth Osbourne : I don't know why you have to be so emotional.

  Bree Osbourne : [shouting]  I am not emotional!

  [normally] 

  Bree Osbourne : God, my cycle's all out of whack.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : You don't have cycles!

  Bree Osbourne : Hormones are hormones. Yours and mine just happen to come in purple little pills.

• [from trailer] 

  Murray : Your mother and I both love you.

  Elizabeth Osbourne : But we don't respect you!