Mamma Mia! (2008)

Meryl Streep: Donna

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Quotes 

• Donna : Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.

• Sophie : I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men. You're my mom, and I love you so much.

  Donna : [hugging her]  Oh, Soph!

  Donna : [to the congregation]  And I haven't slept with *hundreds* of men.

• Sky : You must be Tanya. I've heard so much about you.

  Tanya : Oh. All bad, I hope.

  Sky : Yes.

  Donna : And all true!

• Donna : Why are you here? What are you doing here?

  Bill : I'm writing a travel piece.

  Harry Bright : I'm, I'm here on a spontaneous holiday.

  Sam Carmichael : Er, I just dropped in to say... hi.

• Rosie : [to Donna, holding up Tanya's underwear]  Does she wear it or floss with it?

  Tanya : Floss you!

  Donna : Is it edible Tanya?

• Sam Carmichael : Am I getting this right? Sophie may be mine, but she may be Bill's or Harry's?

  Donna : Yeah. Yes! That's right. And don't get all self-righteous with me, because you have no one but yourself to blame!

  Sophie : Yeah, if you hadn't just dumped my mother and gone off and married somebody else...

  Sam Carmichael : Hey, hey, wait a minute. I had to go home. I was engaged. But I told Lorraine I couldn't marry her and I came right back!

  Donna : You... you... Why didn't you call me?

  Sam Carmichael : Because I was crazy enough to think that you would be waiting for me. Only when I arrived, they told me you were off with some other guy. So... Lorraine called me an idiot and married me to prove it.

• Donna : [at the wedding ceremony]  And welcome to... to... Sophie's dad. I have to tell you, he is here.

  Sophie : I know. I invited him.

  Donna : You couldn't have. I don't know which one it is.

• Donna : You sound like you're having fun already.

  Lisa : Oh, we are.

  Donna : [nostalgically]  I used to have fun.

  Ali : Oh, we *know*!

  [Donna looks puzzled] 

• Tanya : Whatever happened to our Donna? Life and soul of the party! El Rock Chick Supremo!

  Donna : I grew up.

  Tanya : Well, then, grow back down again!

• Donna : [about the three "dads"]  They have no right to turn up like this. What have they ever done for their daughter? Huh?

  Rosie : Donna, Donna, they didn't know she existed.

  Donna : Well, they didn't need to know, did they? I've done a great job with Soph all by myself, and I won't be muscled out by an e... jaculation!

• Donna : [about the possible dads]  I don't know where they are, I don't know why they're here, and I have brought this all on myself because I was a stupid, reckless little slut!

  Tanya : Whoa-ho-ho-ho! Don't you sound like your mother!

• Donna : I'm gonna arrange for a boat to take you all back to the mainland.

  Bill : I have a boat, Donna.

  Donna : You have a boat? Good, get on it. And, er, anchors aweigh!

  Sam Carmichael : Hey...

  Donna : Away aweigh!

  Sam Carmichael : Donna...

  Bill , Sam Carmichael , Harry Bright : [together]  It's good to see you!

• Donna : Okay, now, the thing about the toilet... If it doesn't flush right away, just go, and come back in a while, and it should... Nothing works around here, except for me.

• Tanya : [talking about Donna's money troubles and her life in general]  Yeah, but are you being taken care of?

  Donna : What do you mean?

  Tanya : Are you getting any?

  Donna : Oh, you mean...

  [turns on the drill, making loud noises] 

  Donna : [to the drill]  Down, boy. Down, boy! No, it takes too much energy.

  Rosie : Yeah, just more plumbing to be maintained, isn't it?

• Donna : I better be dreaming, you better not be here.

  Bill : You want me to pinch you Donna?

• Donna : Sky! Come meet my backup girls.

  Rosie , Tanya : Backup girls, my arse!

• Tanya : [when a crack appears in the courtyard]  What's going on?

  Donna : [laughs]  D'you feel it? The earth moved, darling. We're falling apart here.

  [she snatches the bottle of champagne from Tanya's hands and walks off] 

  Donna : Don't think about it. Come on. Let's go have fun.

• Donna : Ohh, look at my baby, her whole life ahead of her!

  Sophie : Oh *please*, I'm getting married, I'm not joining a convent!

• Rosie : [talking about Sophie]  She's a chip off the old block!

  Donna : If she were more like *me*, she wouldn't be getting married at 20.

  Tanya : Or married at all!

• Sam Carmichael : I see you kept my bagpipes.

  Donna : They're supposed to ward off unwanted visitors.

  Sam Carmichael : Oh, you don't need bagpipes to do that.

• Sophie : Do you think I'm letting you down?

  Donna : Why would you even think that?

  Sophie : Oh, because... of what you've done. I mean, the Dynamos, raising a kid... and running a business, all on your own.

  Donna : Well, honey - I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go home. You know? When I got pregnant, my mother told me not to bother coming back. And I wouldn't have had it any other way. My God, look at what *we've* had.