The Princess Diaries (2001)

Caroline Goodall: Mia's Mom, Helen

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Quotes 

• Queen Clarisse Renaldi : Where is she going?

  Helen Thermopolis : The tower.

  [getting up from the table and going after Mia] 

  Helen Thermopolis : Mia, You can't run from everything!

  Queen Clarisse Renaldi : She has a tower?

• Queen Clarisse Renaldi : Helen, if Amelia refuses to accept the throne, then Genovia will cease to exist as we know it.

  Helen Thermopolis : So the future of your country is in the hands of my 15-year-old?

• Helen Thermopolis : This is getting us nowhere! Talk to me!

  Mia : I can't talk to you right now; I'm late for a meeting with my guidance counselor.

  Queen Clarisse Renaldi : I'm late for a meeting with Spain and *Portugal*!

• Helen Thermopolis : Mia, the-the three of us have to talk.

  Mia : Oh, OK. Um, is there maybe something else about me and my life that just maybe I might want to know about? Um-oh no, are you two waiting to take me on a talk show somewhere and to let me know I have a twin sister who's a duchess?

  Queen Clarisse Renaldi : You have a cousin who's a contessa. Fondly known as Bartholomew. Actually, we call him Pookie.

• Mia : [on her green bathing suit]  Okay I look like an asparagus.

  Helen Thermopolis : But a very, very cute asparagus!

• [first lines] 

  Helen Thermopolis : Time for school! Stop daydreaming, you'll be late for school.

• Helen Thermopolis : Where are you going?

  Mia : I'm going up to straighten the royal bedchamber.

• Helen Thermopolis : That Backstreet Boy clone you've had a crush on for years?

  Mia : He's not a Backstreet Boy clone.

• Helen Thermopolis : [comforting Mia after she's been humiliated at the beach party]  My mom always told me l couldn't cry and toId me to be a big girl. But you've been hurt, so you just cry, okay?

  Mia : It was really bad. My foot didn't even pop!