Chicago (2002)

Queen Latifah: Matron Mama Morton

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Quotes 

• Roxie : Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

  Matron Mama Morton : You're talking to the wrong people.

• Roxie : Mr. Flynn!

  [pretends to faint] 

  Billy Flynn : Someone open this door immediately!

  Ms. Sunshine : Oh, my God! Roxie! What is it, dear?

  Roxie : Oh! Oh! Oh, no no no. Don't, don't worry about me. Oh, I only hope the fall didn't hurt the baby.

  Matron Mama Morton : Baby?

  Velma Kelly : Shit!

• Matron Mama Morton : [singing]  Don't you know that this hand washes that one, too? When you're good to Mama, Mama's good to you.

• Matron Mama Morton : [singing]  Let's all stroke together, like the Princeton crew. When you're strokin' Mama, MAMA'S STROKIN' YOU!

• Matron Mama Morton : As you know I'm here to take care of you. Now if anything hurts you, or upsets you in any way... don't run your fat ass mouth off to me cause I don't give a shit. Now move out.

• [Velma asks Moma how much it will cost her for a phone call] 

  Matron Mama Morton : Come on, Vel, you know how I feel about you. You're like family to me, one of my own.

  [pause] 

  Matron Mama Morton : I'll do it for fifty.

• Matron Mama Morton : [singing]  If you want my gravy, pepper my ragout - Spice it up for Mama, she'll get hot for you.

• [at the entrance to the jail cells] 

  Matron Mama Morton : Hey, you must be that Hart girl.

  Roxie : Yes, m'am

  Matron Mama Morton : Aren't you the pretty one.

  Roxie : Thank you m'am

  Matron Mama Morton : Call me mama. Now don't worry 'cause we're gonna take care of you. You'll be staying on E-block. "Murderess Row" we like to call it.

  Roxie : Oh... Is that nicer?

• Matron Mama Morton : In this town, murder's a form of entertainment.

• Matron Mama Morton : They say that life is tit for tat, and that's the way I live... so I deserve a lotta tat for what I've got to give.

• Matron Mama Morton : Ask any of the chickies in my pen - / They'll tell you I'm the biggest mother hen. / I love them all and all of them love me / Because the system works, / The system called "reciprocity"!

• [practicing for her interview] 

  Roxie : [Southern accent]  I was born on a beautiful southern convent.

  Matron Mama Morton : What?

  Roxie : [Normal voice]  Oh, holy shit! Oh, I'm never gonna get this straight.

• Matron Mama Morton : Sometimes you get a little success, and it's good riddance to who put you there.

• Roxie : Thank you, ma'am.

  Matron Mama Morton : No, call me Mama. We're going to take care of you.