The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Sally Field: Aunt May

Quotes 

• Aunt May : What happened to your face? It's filthy.

  Peter Parker : It is?

  Aunt May : Yes!

  Peter Parker : Oh, yeah, yeah, I was cleaning the chimney.

  Aunt May : We have no chimney.

  Peter Parker : Whaaat?

• Aunt May : Hey, wait. What are you doing? What are you doing? No, I do the laundry.

  Peter Parker : I'm doing my laundry.

  Aunt May : No, I do the laundry. No, I this is my job. I've been doing your laundry since you were 6 years old.

  Peter Parker : I understand that. I'm in college now. I think it's time I took care of my own dirty underwear.

  Aunt May : Last time you did it, you turned everything blue and red, so no.

  Peter Parker : That was a mistake. Because I washing the American flag. My... Can I just please just...?

  Aunt May : No one washes a flag.

  Peter Parker : I do, and I won't anymore.

  Aunt May : This is my machine.

  Peter Parker : Fine. It's just underwear.

  Aunt May : This is laundry, my home, my machine. Back off, eat your breakfast.

  Peter Parker : All right, laundry sheriff. I'll do it later.

• Aunt May : Everyone has a part of themselves they hide. Even from the people they love most.

• [from trailer] 

  Gwen Stacy : Hi, is Peter home?

  Aunt May : No, he's doing... whatever it is he does.

  Gwen Stacy : [sighs]  Right.

• [from trailer] 

  Aunt May : I once told you that secrets have a cost. The truth does too.

• Aunt May : [about graduating high school]  I know the first thing your Uncle Ben would say.

  Peter Parker : Yeah, I know too. "You better hurry up, party's over. You gotta get a job."

  Aunt May : Alright, the second thing he would say: "Don't just follow the path, make your own trail."

  Peter Parker : Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  Aunt May : No.

  Peter Parker : What do you mean, no?

  Aunt May : Ben told me he made it up!

• Aunt May : You know, it's so funny I've been trying to clean up around here to be more organized and putting some of Ben's stuff in boxes, and it's so funny, the heavier the box gets the lighter I feel.

  Peter Parker : You're throwing his stuff away?

  Aunt May : No, god no, I couldn't do that it's part of me, I'm just finding a better place for it. I'm going to take one last look, and I'm going to put it where it belongs.

• Peter Parker : Who was that?

  Aunt May : Harvey.

  Peter Parker : Doing a double shift, huh?

  Aunt May : Sometimes. Got nothing else to do. I like the girls. I miss Ben. Gives me a little extra in the cookie jar.

  Peter Parker : Well, I sold another couple of photos to the Bugle, so that ought to help.

  Aunt May : Yeah, it would really help if that guy would pay you a fair wage.

  Peter Parker : Oh, Jameson pays me a fair wage. If it was 1961, he pays me a fair wage.