Michelle Williams credited as playing...
Mitzi Fabelman
- Mitzi Fabelman: [to Sammy] You do what your heart says you have to. 'Cause you don't owe anyone your life. Not even me.
- Mitzi Fabelman: In this family, it's the scientists versus the artists. Sammy's on my team, he takes after me, except he's got real talent.
- Sammy Fabelman: [about Bennie the Monkey] Why did you get a monkey?
- Mitzi Fabelman: Because I needed a laugh.
- Mitzi Fabelman: [to Burt, about Sammy] You dismiss what he does that's playful or imaginative. You could afford to be more encouraging.
- Sammy Fabelman: You didn't come here to build houses, you didn't come here to work. You ran away.
- Burt Fabelman: *I think you have something to say to me, Sammy and if I'm right about that, then get it off your chest and say it to my face.*
- Mitzi Fabelman: [stands on a chair] I started therapy!
- Mitzi Fabelman: I'm doing this thing. And I don't know if it's the right thing but it's a life or death thing for me, and I'm sorry, but everybody else is gonna have to hang on for dear life. And somehow, we will survive this, all of us. Even your father, who I adore with all my heart. He deserves so much better than what I'm doing, but... .but Benny needs me, dolly. And I need him. So much so that without him, I'm turning into someone I don't know, and none of you will know my anymore. I'll just be that hateful person who did that terrible thing to your back. And yes, this is the most selfish thing I have ever done. But I've gotta do this now because, Sammy, you do what your heart says you have to, because you don't owe anyone your life. Not even me.
- Hadassah Fabelman: My rabbi in New Jersey says a monkey in the house isn't kosher.
- Mitzi Fabelman: That's why we're not going to eat him.
- Sammy Fabelman: Do you always have to be the center of attention?
- Reggie Fabelman: Stop shouting at her!
- Mitzi Fabelman: There has been nothing but disrespect from you; I am your mother!
- Mitzi Fabelman: [about Burt] He kills with such kindness.
- [If]
- Mitzi Fabelman: I'm mean to him, he buys me a dress.
- Burt Fabelman: [driving on Christmas] The lights change how everything looks. It's hard to find our house.
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: Ours is the dark house with no lights.
- [Mitzi laughs]
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: That's what I want for Hanukkah.
- Mitzi Fabelman: What?
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: Christmas lights!
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: Is this safe?
- Mitzi Fabelman: Of course it's safe. I'm your mother.
- [Kids screaming]
- [first lines]
- Burt Fabelman: Mommy and daddy will be right next to you. The lights will go down. There may be some organ music as the curtain open. Don't be scared.
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: It'll be dark in there, you said. I don't wanna go in.
- Burt Fabelman: But it's fun. All week you've been so excited. Your first ever movie!
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: And the people are gigantic.
- Burt Fabelman: What people?
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: You said the people in the movie are gigantic.
- Burt Fabelman: Oh, because of the big screen they're on. But they're not real though, right?
- Mitzi Fabelman: They're like dreams.
- Younger Sammy Fabelman: Dreams are scary.
- Mitzi Fabelman: Some dreams are, but this is gonna be a nice dream.