Saving Face (2004)
Joan Chen: Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma
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Quotes
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[Wil and Ma watching a soap opera]
Wil : Is that the good guy?
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : No, he's marrying her for money.
Wil : Is that the good guy?
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : No, that's his brother.
Wil : Who's that guy?
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : He's the most evil of them all, he wants to ruin her family to avenge a grudge.
Wil : Who's the loser they're beating up?
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : That's the good guy.
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Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] Your neighbor is loud and dark and eats too much soy sauce.
Wil : [in Mandarin] Americans like soy sauce.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : I'm going to start eating less soy sauce so it won't stain the baby too dark.
Wil : [in English] Ma, that's ridiculous.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : You eat less too, so you don't grow spots.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [passes soy sauce bottle to Jay]
Jay - Neighbor : Thanks.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [smiles] Too late for him anyway.
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Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] Is that how you speak to your ma who worked nights so you could eat? Who stayed in labor without painkillers so you wouldn't turn dim-witted like your cousin Jimmy? Had I known you would grow so ungrateful I would have held you in.
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Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] No one wants to see a 50-year-old Chinese woman look sexy.
Wil : Ma, you're only 48.
[in Mandarin]
Wil : Connie Chung's sexy, and she must be nearly 60.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : Her show was cancelled.
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Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : So, when are you gonna have a baby?
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Wil : Ma, you can't give him a paper plate.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] Safer this way. Throw it out afterwards.
Wil : It's rude.
Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] I'll give him two.
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Hwei-Lan Gao - Ma : [in Mandarin] Chinese people cannot wear yellow.