The Help Movie Quotes

Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone):
“Mama, I want to ask you about Constantine.”
“I got a job today. Writing for the Jackson Journal.”
“Daddy, what happened to Constantine?”
“Did you fire her.”
“She raised me!”
“She worked here for 29 years!”
“Margaret Mitchell glorified the Mammy figure … but nobody ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.”

Robert Phelan (Brian Kerwin):
“Well, Constantine went to live in Chicago with her family. People move on, Skeeter. But I do wish that she stayed down here with us.”

Charlotte Phelan (Allison Janney):
“Skeeter, your mamma is sick, she wants to see you in this dress. Unzipper me.”
“Great. You can write my obituary. Charlotte Feeling. Dead. Her daughter still single.”
“Are you having unnatural thoughts about girls … women?”
“We were just a job to her, honey. With them, it’s all about money. You’ll understand that once you’ve hired help of your own.”
“Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.”
“The Daughters of America had just appointed me State Regent. Grace Higginbotham our esteemed president came all the way down from Washington, D.C. to our house!”
“Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.”

Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis):
“I done raised 17 kids in my life. Looking after white babies — that’s what I do.”
“18 people died in Jackson that day. 10 white and 8 black. God don’t pay no mind to color once he decide to set a tornado loose.”
“What if you don’t like what I got to say — about white people?”
“Alton used to always be asking me how come I was black … and one time I told him cause I drink too much coffee. (laughs) You shoulda seen his face!”
“All you do is scare and lie to try and get what you want. You a Godless woman. Ain’t you tired, Miss Hilly?”
“God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling the truth.”

Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer)
“I done something terrible awful to that woman and now she know what I done … and now I ain’t never gonna get no job again.”
“Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life.”
“Minny don’t burn fried chicken.”
“They don’t like you ’cause they think you white trash.”
“I said eat… my… shit.”
“I done asked God to forgive me. But more for what happened to po’ Miz Walters. Miss Hilly threw her in that nursing home just for laughing.”

Missus Walters (Sissy Spacek):
“I may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can’t seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny’s shit. Goodnight.”

Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard)
“You ought not to joke about the colored situation. I’ll do whatever it takes to protect our children.”
“Let’s give a nice round of applause for the help.”
“What are you trying to do to me? What are you and that nigra up to?
“Maybe I can’t send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.”

Mr. Blackly (Leslie Jordan):
“I guarantee you, one day they’re going to figure out cigarettes will kill you.”

Mae Mobley (Eleanor Henry and Emma Henry)
“You my real momma, Aibi”
(Remember everything Aibileen taught her): “You is kind, you is smart, you is important.”

Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain)
“Hilly, I got pregnant after you and Johnny broke up.”
“Johnny never cheated on you — at least not with me.”

Grace Higginbotham (Dana Ivey, who also played Miss Millie in ‘The Color Purple’)
“You may put up with this kind of nonsense. But I do not!”

Roy Wilkins Voiceover on the Killing of Medgar Evers
“We view this as the cold, brutal, deliberate killing in a savage, uncivilized state. There is no state with a record that approaches that of Mississippi in inhumanity, murder, brutality and racial hatred. It is absolutely at the bottom of the list.”