Barbie (I) (2023)

Rhea Perlman: Ruth

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• Ruth : Humans have only one ending. Ideas live for ever.

• Ruth : I was arrested for tax evasion, but that's another movie.

• Ruth : We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they've come

• Ruth : You guys, do you think the lady who invented Barbie looks like Barbie? I'm a five-foot-nothing grandma with a double mastectomy... and tax evasion issues. Nobody looks like Barbie, except, of course, Barbie.

• Ruth : Being a human can be pretty uncomfortable.

  Barbie : I know.

  Ruth : Humans make things up like patriarchy and Barbie just to deal with how uncomfortable it is.

• Sasha : Hey, what about Barbie?

  Mattel CEO : What do you mean?

  Sasha : What's her ending? What does she get?

  Mattel CEO : Well, that's easy. She's in love with Ken.

  Sasha : That is not her ending.

  Barbie : I'm not in love with Ken.

  Mattel CEO : What do you want?

  Barbie : I don't know. I'm... I'm not really sure where I belong anymore. I don't think I have an ending.

  Ruth : That was always the point. I created you so you wouldn't have an ending.

• Barbie : I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do now. I've always been Stereotypical Barbie, and I don't think I'm really good at anything else.

  Ruth : You saved Barbie Land from patriarchy.

  Barbie : That was very much a group effort.

  Ruth : And you helped that mother and daughter connect.

  Barbie : They really helped each other.

  Ruth : Maybe you're Self-Effacing Barbie?

  Barbie : Maybe I'm not Barbie anymore.

• Barbie : Do you give me permission to become human?

  Ruth : You don't need my permission.

  Barbie : But you're the creator. You... Don't you control me?

  Ruth : I can't control you any more than I can control my own daughter. I named you after her, Barbara. And I always hoped for you like I hoped for her. We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they've come.

• Barbie : Real World isn't what I thought it was.

  Ruth : It never is. And isn't that marvelous?

• Ruth : I always knew that Barbie would surprise me, but I never expected this.