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Mamma Mia! (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

[from trailer]
Harry Bright: Is your father here?
Sophie: [smiling] You tell me.

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[from trailer]
Bill: We're here for the wedding.
[Sophie is frazzled]
Sam Carmichael: You are expecting us?
Sophie: [pause] Oh my god, yeah.

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[from trailer]
Donna: You sound like you're having fun already.
Ali: Oh, we are!
Donna: [woefully] I used to have fun!
Ali: [giggles] Oh, we know!
[Donna looks worried]

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[from trailer]
Donna: There were three guys around the same time...
[giggles]
Tanya: You shady lady!

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[from trailer]
Sophie: I don't care if you've slept with hundreds of men!
Donna: I haven't slept with HUNDREDS of men...!

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Sophie: Um... I've invited my dad to my wedding.
Ali: You found him?
Sophie: No no no no no no! Not exactly.

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Rosie: [to Tanya] It's very Greek.

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Donna: [hugging Sophie] Look at my baby her whole life ahead of her.

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Sam Carmichael: Last time I saw your mother she said she never wanted to see me again.

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Donna: [to Rosie] Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.

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Rosie: [to Tanya] Typical isn't it? You wait 20 years for a dad and then three come along at once.

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Sky: It's my last night of freedom... which is what some might see it, but for me it's the last night before the greatest adventure of my life.

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Harry Bright: [on his sudden appearance for Sophie's wedding] I... I'm here on a spontaneous holiday.

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Donna: Wh-wh what are you all doing here?
Bill: I'm writing a travel piece.
Harry Bright: I- I'm on a spontaneous holiday.
Sam Carmichael: I-I-I I just dropped in to say... hi.

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Tanya: [to Sophie] I bet you don't remember me.
Rosie: Not with all that plastic surgery.

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Harry Bright: [introducing himself] Bright. Harry Bright.

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Sophie: You took mom's guitar!
Harry Bright: Um no, no I borrowed it. I bought her this. It cost me ten quid plus my Johnny Rotten T-shirt. See here - where is it? Ah yes. DS: Donna Sheridan. and HB: Head Banger.

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Tanya: Down big fella, I'm old enough to be your mother!
Rosie: Grandmother.

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Rosie: [to Donna, holding up Tanya's underwear] Does she wear it or floss with it?
Tanya: Floss you!
Rosie, Tanya: Is it edible Tanya?

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Rosie: I'm a lone wolf!

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Sophie: [reading Donna's diary] We danced on the beach, kissed on the beach and dot, dot, dot.

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Harry Bright: Bugger.
Sam Carmichael: My sentiments exactly.

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Donna: I grew up.
Tanya: Well, grow back down then!

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Sophie: [Bill has just realized that he might be her father] You know what happens next?
Bill: Don't tell me you have a twin sister.

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Sophie: But I love Sky. I love Sky more than anything.

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Tanya: [before singing 'Does Your Mother Know'] Little boys who play with fire get their fingers burned.

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Donna: I better be dreaming, you better not be here.
Bill: You want me to pinch you Donna?

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Sam Carmichael: [after Donna falls on Harry's air bed] You always knew how to make an entrance.

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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 screw driver, making loud noises, then says to the screw driver:]
Donna: Down, boy.

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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: Honey, I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go home. 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!

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Harry Bright: What would the father of the bride normally do?
Tanya: Pay.
[beat]
Tanya: Though my dad drew the line at my 3rd.

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Tanya: This fricking yoga made my feet bigger.

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Donna: The thing about the toilet... if it doesn't flush right away, then go and come back and it'll... nothing works around here except for me.

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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 anchors away.
Sam Carmichael: Donna...
Donna: Away away.

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Sophie: I wanted to get married knowing who I am.
Sky: You don't find that from finding your father, Sophie, you find it by finding yourself.

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Donna: I will not be muscled out by an e... jaculation.

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Donna: 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 even know which one it is.

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Sophie: I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men, you're my mom, and I love you so much.
Donna: Oh Soph...
[hugs]
Donna: And I haven't slept with *hundreds* of men.

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Donna: [about the possible dads] I have brought this all on myself because I was a stupid, reckless little slut!
Tanya: Don't you sound like your mother!

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Sam Carmichael: Hold on! You're saying I might be Sophie's father, but she might be Bill's or Harry's?
Donna: Yes and don't get self righteous with me...
Sophie: Yeah if you hadn't left my mother to go off and get married!
Sam Carmichael: I had to go. I was engaged. But I couldn't do it and I came right back!
Donna: Wha... why... What... Why didn't you call me?
Sam Carmichael: Because I was stupid enough to think you would be waiting for me. But when I got there they told me you were off with some other guy.

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Father Alex: And a welcome to Donna, who's representing her side of the family.
Donna: And a welcome to... Sophie's dad... He's here.
Sophie: I know, I invited him.
Donna: How could you? I don't know which one it is... OH MY GOD... that's why they're here!
Sophie: I'm sorry, please forgive me!
Donna: I don't know... Can you forgive me?
Sophie: What? I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men. You're my mother and I love you.
Donna: Oh Sophie... And I haven't slept with hundreds of men...

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Tanya: [after a crack loudly appears in the courtyard after "Money, Money, Money] What happened?
Donna: [laughs] Didja feel it? The earth moved, darling. We're falling apart here.
[she snatches the bottle of champagne from Tanya's hands and walks off]
Tanya: Don't think about it. C'mon. Let's go have fun...

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