Fences (2016)

Viola Davis: Rose Maxson

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Quotes 

• [from trailer] 

  Troy : It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for eighteen years!

  Rose : Well, I've been standing with you! I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot as you!

• 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!

• Rose : From right now, this child's got a mother. But you're a womanless man.

• Rose : Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn't, and at the same time, he wanted you to be everything he was.

• Rose : Everything that boy do, he do for you.

• 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.

• 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] 

• Rose : Anything he can't understand, he want to call it the devil.

• Rose : Go on back in there, go to bed, and get up on the other side.

• Rose : I told you, a watched pot never boils.