Room (2015) · 15 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Room (2015): in 9 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Jack Newsome (7)
Ma Ssh. Go back to sleep.
Once upon a time, before I came, you cried and cried and watched TV all day, until you were a zombie. But then I zoomed down from heaven, through skylight, into Room. Whoosh-pshew! And I was kicking you from the inside. Boom, boom! And then I shot out onto Rug with my eyes wide open, and you cutt-ed the cord and said, "Hello, Jack!"
Is bad tooth hurting?
Ma Mmhmm, but you know mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Ma You're right. Hey do you know what we're gonna do today?
What?
Ma We're going to bake a birthday cake
A birthday cake?
Ma Mmhmm
Like from TV?
Ma Mmhmm, but for real
No way!
Ma He's on the other side of this wall.
What other side?
Ma Jack, there's two sides to everything.
Not on an octagon.
Ma Yeah, but...
Ma But a wall, okay, a wall's like this, see? And we're on the inside and mouse is on the outside.
In outer space?
Ma No, in the world. It's much closer than outer space.
I can't see the outside-side.
Ma Listen, I know that I told you something else before, but you were much younger. I didn't think that you could understand, but now you're so old, you're so smart. I know that you can get this. Where do you think that old Nick gets our food?
From TV by magic!
Ma You're gonna love it.
What?
Ma The world.
Are we in another planet?
Ma Same one. Just a different spot.
Ma He needs to play with something real. I'm worried about him being on the phone.
He's doing fine.
Ma Well, I don't give him my phone, so I'd appreciate it if you didn't give him yours.
Okay, I won't.
Ma Great. [pause] I just want him to connect with something.
Joy. Joy, he's really doing fine.
Ma I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm supposed to be happy.
You just need to rest, okay?
Ma No, I don't. I don't need to rest!
That's... That's what the doctor...
Ma That is not what the doctor said. You don't know what he said, because it was a confidential conversation, and you don't know what he said!
All right, all right, all right! You're impossible to talk to right now.
Ma Well, sorry.
No. No, you're not sorry!
Ma Yeah, I'm not sorry! You have no idea what's going on in my head.
Yeah. Well, try me! I have asked you.
Ma And then what? Then, every time you look at me, that's all that you see?
When I look at you, Joy, I will see my daughter.
Ma You don't need me. You've been doing just fine without me.
Oh. How can you say that, huh? Do you honestly think that you were the only one whose life was destroyed?
Ma Actually, that's exactly what I think.
Yeah? Well how would you feel if somebody took Jack away from you?
Ma Oh, shut up!
Look at him! You should be thinking about him!
Ma Oh, don't you tell me how to look after my son. I'm sorry that I'm not nice anymore, but you know what? Maybe if your voice saying "be nice" hadn't been in my head, then maybe I wouldn't have helped the guy with the **** sick dog! Stay there, Jack. I'm calling the **** lawyer. I can't stay in this place.
When he's older, will you tell Jack about his father?
Ma Jack's not his. He's not his.
So are you saying that there were other men?
Ma No! No. Um... A father is... a man who loves his child.
Of course. That's so true in a very real sense, but the... the biological relationship that you...
Ma That's not a relationship.
Ma I'm sorry Jack.
It's okay. Don't do it again.
Ma I promise
Are you better now?
Ma Yeah, I'm starting to be. Hey, Jack?
Yeah?
Ma When Grandma brought this to me [Shows Jack the trimmings of his hair] I knew that I could get better. You saved me... Again.
It can't really be Room if door's open.
Ma Do you want me to close it?
Nah.
Ma Jack, can we go?
Bye, plant. Bye, chair number one. Bye, chair number two. Bye, table. Bye, wardrobe. Bye, sink. Bye-bye, skylight. Ma, say bye-bye to room.
Ma Bye, Room.
