Mo'Nique Biography

The career of funny girl Mo'Nique began in her early twenties, when she took to the improv comedy stage on a dare from her brother. The impulsive decision met with success, and she began to pursue a career in standup comedy, eventually performing on such renowned shows as Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, and Snaps. Mo'Nique's big break came in 1999, when she landed her own sitcom, starring on UPN's The Parkers as a single mom attending college alongside her daughter. She was 32 years old, and the days when she was working at the phone company in her hometown of Baltimore were about to seem very far away. The critical and commercial success of The Parkers led to a slew of awards and movie roles, including Two Can Play That Game, Baby Boy, Half Past Dead, Shadowboxer, Domino, and Soul Plane. Despite having her pick of scripted roles, Mo'Nique was still itching to get back to her standup roots. She joined Adele Givens, Sommore, and Laura Hayes for a hugely successful comedy tour called The Queens of Comedy, which was captured on film and released by Paramount Home Entertainment and the Showtime network in 2002. Never shying away from her status as a full-figured woman, Mo'Nique has used her notoriety and her famously sarcastic wit in order to advocate for voluptuous women everywhere. Her funny and empowering book Skinny Women Are Evil became a best-seller in 2003, and she soon afterward began working with the Oxygen network on a beauty pageant for full-figured women called F.A.T. Chance -- an acronym for "fabulous and thick." She also starred in the movie Phat Girlz in 2006, playing a struggling fashion designer looking for love and success in a world of "hot bodies." Later that same year, the large-and-in-charge star could be seen onscreen with the Broken Lizard comedy troupe in the alcohol-chugging chuckler Beerfest. In 2009, she began hosting her own talk show on BET, The Mo'Nique Show.It was Mo'Nique's harrowing turn as an abusive mother in Precious, however, that made people aware of the full range of her talents. Her blistering portrayal won her the Best Supporting Actress award from a great many critics groups, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Hollywood Foreign Press. She went on to win the Oscar in that category as well. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

• 1. Mary: And I don't want you to sit there and judge me, Mrs. Weiss.
  2. Mrs. Weiss: You shut up and you let him abuse your daughter.
  3. Mary: I did not want him to abuse my daughter, I did not want---
  4. Mrs. Weiss: But you allowed him to hurt her.
  5. Mary: I didn't want him to do nothing to her. I wanted him to make love to me. That as was my man. That was my fuckin man! That was my man, and he wanted daughter. And that's why I hated her! Because my man, who was supposed to be loving me, who was supposed to be making love to me, was fuckin my baby, and she made him leave! She made him go away!
  6. Mrs. Weiss: So whose fault was it then--?
  7. Mary: It's this bitch's fault, because she let my man have her. And she didn't say nothing! She didn't scream, she didn't do nothing! So those things that she told you, I did to her--- who...who...who else was gon love me?! Hmm? Since you got your degree and you know every fuckin thing? Who was gon love me? Who... who was gon make me feel good? Who was gon touch me and make me feel good late at night? And she made him go way! So when you sit there and you writin those fuckin notes on your pad, about who you think I am, and why i did it, and...and all of that. Because I didn't have nobody.
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)

• 1. Mary: ...and he touched my baby. And I axed him, I said, 'Carl, what are yo doing?' And he told be to shut-- to shut my fat ass up. And it as good for her.
  2. Mrs. Weiss: And what did you do, then?
  3. Mary: I shut my fat ass up.
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)

• 1. Mary: See, I...I...I think right now, you feelin that you becoming a grown woman, 'cause that shit you pulled in the kitchen, I should have fucked you up, but I let you walk away. And I let you get yourself together. But bitch Imma let you know if you even pull that shit on me again, That would be your last mutha fuckin day standing. I promise you that. You gon send a white bitch to my mutha fuckin buzzer, talking about some high education. You're a dummy bitch, you will never know shit! Don nobody want you, don nobody need you. You dun fucked around and fucked my mutha fuckin man. And had two mutha fuckin children, and one of em's a goddamn animal, running around looking crazy as a mutha fucker. Bitch you know what, I think you trying me. I think you really trying to fuck with me. You fucking with my money, and you gon stand up there and look down to me, like you a mutha fuckin woman. Imma show you what real women do, bitch. So you don't know what real mutha fuckin women do, real mutha fuckin woman sacrifice! I should have aborted your mutha fuckin ass, cause you ain't shit! I knew it the day the doctors put you in my goddamn hand, you wasn't a goddamn thing! And you had that smirk on your face, BITCH, Imma kill the fuck--! [throws frying pan] Now smile about that! Smile about that you fat bitch--! [Precious kicks slippers down] Bitch! [runs up the stairs] Imma kill you bitch!
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)

• 1. Mary: School ain't gon help none. Take your ass down to the welfare! Who da fuck she think she is!? Now i guess you think you cute now, right? Little upiddy bitch. Ya shoulda kept yo fuckin mouth shut! Just cause he gon give you more children than he give me, you think you fuckin special, fuck you and fuck him! Precious! Precious! Precious! Get down here bitch! You brought that white bitch up in my house?! You-- why would you bring that white bitch up in here?!
  2. Clareece "Precious" Jones: I didn't bring her here.
  3. Mary: Well why da fuck did she ring my buzzer?! I can't hear you Precious, since you go so much mutha fuckin mouth, and you gon bring a bitch up in my house, why would that bitch ring my goddamn buzzer?!
  4. Clareece "Precious" Jones: I ain't tell her to come here!
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Nhia T (4 months ago)

• 1. Mary: You think you too good now, is that it? You think you is too good for the welfare?
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Gavin S (8 months ago)

• 1. Mary: Hurry up, Precious! I am in here fucking starving to death. Now what you gonna do if I die of starvation? Where you gonna go then?
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Gavin S (8 months ago)

• 1. Mary: You don't know what real women do! Real women sacrifice!
  From Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. Submitted by Natia S (8 months ago)