Riding in Cars with Boys Quotes

Beverly: [standing on her lawn, yelling at Ray] I'm just another angry house wife, standing on her lawn and yelling at her husband! Oh yeah, that's me!

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys
Tina Barr: Are we invited to this party?
Beverly: They're Fay's friends.
Fay: They're not. My parents are friends with their parents.
Beverly: What's important is that Sky Barrister will be there.
Fay: Sky has had his hands in everything you've got. And he has a ton of your poems. And does he call you once? No. Bev, you are truly a great person. But someone as conceited as Sky won't see that. Because all he can see is himself. You know I'm right.
Tina Barr: It's true, Bev.
Beverly: [pause] [she observes Fay's dress]
Beverly: Let me wear that dress.
Fay: What?
Beverly: Fay, if I even look half as beautiful as you in that dresss... Sky will have to notice me. You can wear my dress.
Tina Barr: No.
Fay: [she observes Bev's dress but is reluctant] I... No, Bev. It won't fit.
Beverly: Fay, you gotta let me wear that dress.
Fay: Why?
Beverly: Because I love you. [Fay ponders]
Beverly: Please, please, please.
Fay: All right.

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys
Amelia: We're young, we deserve to be young. We deserve to be young together.

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys
Beverly: I swear, I haven't smiled in like a month. Your mom taking the kids to the movies was a great idea. Hey, shut the door.
Fay: Okay. [see's Jason and Amelia roughhousing]
Fay: You play nice, kids.

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys
Beverly: I'm 22 years old - that's almost 30, and I still haven't accepted that this is my life. And I just wish that I could be dumb. And then I wouldn't know better and I could be happy and stop hoping. And I'm telling you this like you're interested in my boring life.

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys
Beverly: [to young Jason after he demands to be left alone] Remember, I am your mother. And that means you're not allowed to stay mad at me.

Movie: Riding in Cars with Boys