August: Osage County (2013)

Julia Roberts: Barbara Weston

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Quotes 

• Violet Weston : I'm not hungry!

  Barbara Weston : Eat the fish, bitch!

• Barbara Weston : Thank God we can't tell the future, we'd never get out of bed.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Barbara Weston : It's the pills talking.

  Violet Weston : Pills can't talk!

• Barbara Weston : Are we breaking shit now, huh? I can break shit! Hey! See, everybody can break some shit!

• 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.

• 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!

• Barbara Weston : It's not my fault. Mom told you, not me.

  Ivy Weston : There's no difference.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• [repeated line] 

  Barbara Weston : Eat your fish.

• 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!

• 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!

• 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?

• Barbara Weston : And you really haven't been much of a parent lately.

• Barbara Weston : But her fourteen-year-old self might view it differently.