130 Best Quotes from Netflix’s ‘Maid’
Maid is a Netflix series based on Stephanie Land’s memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.”
The series follows a young mother trying to escape an abusive relationship while raising her daughter and working as a housekeeper.
This series undoubtedly shows us the hardships of poverty and the struggles of being a single mother.
Happiness, sadness, laughter, and rage are only some of the emotions felt while watching this.
Here are a few quotes from the Netflix series, Maid that are sure to you fill you with emotions!
1. “Okay I know you want ‘Shoop.’ I know you want ‘Shoop.’ Mommy wants to ask the last owner if he jammed any other mixtape in here”. -Alex
2. “It’s the Ariel that we got from a dollar store. So we call her Schmariel.” -Alex
3. “I had a home and then we left it.” -Alex
4. “I would rather sleep in my car.” -Alex
5. “On your mark, get set, go!” -Maddy
6. “Can I bring Maddy?” -Alex
7. “This is so exciting. I can’t believe you came to see this.” -Paula
8. “It’s not fake. I was born in Perth, so …” -Basil
9. “Our identity is subjective.” -Paula
10. “Go put some shrimp on the Barbie all right.” -Alex
11. “Be a good girl for Grammy and cilantro.”
12. “Cart before the horse. This is a trial. You ain’t hired yet.” -Yolanda
13. “We’re in NYC this weekend. Everything in the fridge can go so my whole house doesn’t smell like kombucha when I get back. Got it?” – Regina
14. “The sun beams towards me. It fills me with light!” -Paula
15. “I do everything for you.” -Sean
16. “Would you mind going and seeing what he’s reading?” -Alex
17. “I’m just really into vacuums right now, Nate.” -Alex
18. “She’s very afraid of the snow creature. No Frozen, sorry.” -Alex
19. “I don’t get paid; you don’t get paid.” -Yolanda
20. “You’re here, you can breathe.” -Denise
21. “You want a special surprise.” -Alex
22. “Smelled like she was cooking turds.” -Danielle
23. “Why are you wearing a cheetah.” -Sean
24. “Your Honor, Ms. Russell has failed to legal, legal, legal, and she’s legally legal, we ask to legal, legal.” -John
25. “Before they bite, they bark. Before they hit you, they hit near you.” -Danielle
26. “No. You can’t steal the woman’s dog.” -Alex
27. “You lost your dog for five minutes, and I lost my daughter.” -Alex
28. “It took me five tries.” -Denise
29. “Parents do not get a day off.”
30. “We’ll have a cobb salad and rose.” – Yolanda
31. “It looks like piss, but it’s mountain dew. Get in.” -Kiara
32. “I don’t understand why you’re gonna take her away from me if you’re not gonna spend any time with her.” -Alex
33. “This is an emergency. You are an emergency.” -Sean
34. “We just need to brighten it up is all.” -Paula
35. “Why do you care, Mom? You guys broke up a decade ago.” -Alex
36. “If you start poking around because you think somethings wrong. You’re gonna find something.” -Alex
37. “Hey Paula! Your daughter is being rude.” -Basil
38. “You can’t even buy me a burger on the worst week of my life.” – Alex
39. “Sea turns trash into treasure overtime.” -Sean
40. “I’m sea glass I’m not trash. Just give me time.” -Sean
41. “I have something even better than syrup. Pretend syrup.” -Alex
42. “Mommy’s got a whole lot of houses to clean.” -Alex
43. “My grandpa drove this thing for 30-some years. Trust me if anybody hits this thing they’re going to be in trouble.” -Nate
44. “Clean up on aisle poor. Clean up on aisle poor.” -Cashier
45. “Mommy gave you to me crabby.” -Sean
46. “Do we really need to bring seven pies? You don’t even eat pie.” -James
47. “They’re not for eating. They are for looking at.” -Regina
48. “We have a really good maid.” -Alex
49. “She has a cashmere sweater that makes her feel like she’s being hugged by 1000 baby lambs.” -Alex
50. “It’s the people you think you know. That’s who you have to worry about.” -Regina
51. “I live for my daughter.” -Alex
52. “Maybe when you live in a house that big, you lose yourself in it.” -Alex
53. “Oh, my goodness, I missed you. I missed you. I missed you.” -Alex
54. “I have seven whole pies at home.” -Alex
55. “No! You’re not calling out sick, no way!” -Yolanda
56. “You could grow mushrooms in there, it’s wet to the touch.” -Alex
57. “Why would somebody lock a kid in a room.” -Alex
58. “Who told you that? Your mother?” -Hank
59. “Wait, I’m confused. Are you working a double?” -Frankie
60. “Mind if I put on some music? She’s got a decent sound system I’m gonna steal it.” -Kelly
61. “Panic attacks are the worst. I get one every time I go into Old Navy.” -Kelly
62. “I need to find my mom.” -Alex
63. “Danielle might be lying to herself in order to survive.” -Denise
64. “I keep on having these dreams that I am, uh, Barefoot Billy.” -Alex
65. “Did I use to hide in that cupboard?” -Alex
66. “It’s okay, baby. Mommy’s okay.” -Paula
67. “There was a cupboard, and I was hiding from you.” -Alex
68. “Look at that, put a ring on it baby.” -Paula
69. “I grew up here. So, I see myself everywhere.” -Alex
70. “You know, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.” -Alex
71. “It’s not Monopoly money, ma’am. It’s rent assistance.” -Alex
72. “I don’t know what’s worse, losing my kid or trying to give me somebody else’s.” -Alex
73. “I fixed things by leaving.” -Alex
74. “They grow herbs and other pretentious things.” -Nate
75. “Did what’s-his-face have a man cave?” -Alex
76. “My son is gonna piss on me.” -Regina
77. “I can make your yard look like Versailles by spring.” -Alex
78. “I’m going to look for pinecones.” -Maddy
79. “Who’s making more bubbles than me.” -Nate
80. “All you have to do is just call Value Maids, cancel your clean and I’ll start right away.” -Alex
81. “Marriage was an armistice between two dueling parties in this house.” -Alex
82. “I should’ve not broken into that house looking for you, but I was looking for you.” -Sean
83. “We’re damaged the same way. We’re family.” -Sean
84. “A trapezoid is not a square.” -Alex
85. “Yeah, no, I can’t drink after 8. It messes with my stomach.” -Nate
86. “How does it feel to be loved like that?” -Alex
87. “What the mind needs to know sometimes is that there is someone there to make things better for you.” -Alex
88. “I think you like me, and I know I like you. That’s equal, right.” -Nate
89. “Oh, yeah, just give a holler on your trusty steed.” -Sean
90. “Now you’re talking. Road trip!” -Paula
91. “I just exaggerate the accent a little bit, you know.” -Basil
92. “Nobody bites our girl.” -Sean
93. “Grab Maddy. We’ll go as a family.” -Sean
94. “I care about you. I just can’t do a front-row seat.” -Nate
95. “I’m worried about you Mom.” -Alex
96. “I’m like the tide I roll back in. Look at me. Surfs up!” -Paula
97. “Chili. Extra bland and spice free, per the chef’s request.” -Sean
98. “Please don’t factor me in.” -Alex
99. “If I so much as breathe on him, his little eyes rip open, and he starts screaming like a banshee.” -Regina
100. “You’ve gotta nap when the baby’s down. It’s the only way.” -Alex
101. “Baby I would give you the skin off my bones.” -Paula
102. Let’s go on a hike like old times. What do you say?” -Alex
103. “We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re gonna catch a big one. What a beautiful day. We’re not scared.” -Alex and Maddy
104. “I need to work, Sean. So, I can make my own money so that I can be independent.” -Alex
105. “Me neither, but then I was like, there’s probably gonna be free food, so.” -Alex
106. “I thought we were building something together, as a family.” -Sean
107. “Sean, can I have my notebook?” -Alex
108. “That one is Sandy and that one is Candy.” -Maddy
109. “I don’t know if everything is going to be fine.” -Alex
110. “You’re okay, Mommy’s okay, okay.” -Alex
111. “The fairy is back.” -Maddy
112. “Well, I’m the one putting pretend purchases into pretend shopping bags right now.” -Brandi
113. “You’re my first customer. So there’s no way I’m gonna back out.” -Alex
114. “Stinky Pot Pie!” -Maddy
115. “I used Basil to break me out of that jail my daughter put me in.” -Paula
116. “It’s not for you.” -Alex
117. “Can we get some more of those free chips, please?” -Paula
118. “Hey, everybody my daughter’s going to college.” -Paula
119. “There’s no pressure, we’re just writing for the sake of writing.” -Alex
120. “If you’re gonna ruin the cotton candy, you’re gonna have to go.” -Paula
121. “I am a Langley woman, and I am going.” -Alex
122. “My dad would point to the sky and tell me he was the Big Dipper and I was the Little Dipper.” -Brandi
123. “She never wants to get off the swings Sean.” -Alex
124. “I’m signing over full custody to you. I just called my lawyer.” -Sean
125. “I’m sparkly.” -Alex
126. “It was just me, the sun, and the snow.” -Paula
127. “Nah, can’t blame a girl for putting on a little cashmere.” -Regina
128. “I can’t wait on you Mom.” -Alex
129. “Hopefully, there will be a lot of happy days during that time.” -Alex
130. “I’m going to tell her that the M stands for ‘Maddy’.” -Alex
As you can see by these quotes, watching Maid on Netflix brings you through a rollercoaster of emotions and is most certainly worth the watch.
Being a single mom isn’t easy, but Alex shows us that it is possible to be successful if you work hard enough.
Be sure to check out Maid on Netflix!
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