Cynthia: I can still turn a few heads...

Roxanne: ...and a few stomachs!
Maurice: Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.
Maurice: She can't help it; she never had enough love
Maurice: Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!
Cynthia: You gotta laugh, ain't ya sweetheart? Else you'd cry.
Cynthia: But sweetheart, I can't be your mother!

Hortense Cumerbatch: Why not?

Cynthia: Well... look at me!
Cynthia: [to Hortense] You look more like me than m'daughter does!
[last lines]

Cynthia: Oh, this is the life, ain't it?

Roxanne, Hortense Cumerbatch: Yeah.
Cynthia: Where's this food, then? I'm ravishin'.

[Hortense laughs]

Cynthia: What?

[Hortense chuckles]
Monica Purley: Can't miss what you never had!

Maurice: Can't you?
Roxanne: Don't be stupid.
Maurice: Is that a suit?

Monica Purley: It came as a combination.

Maurice: They go together?

Monica Purley: Well, if you think they do, they do, and if you think they don't, they don't.
Monica Purley: I suppose we'd have to invite Cynthia as well. There's no show without Punch.
Cynthia: You've been sitting there for a month with a face like a slapped horse.

Roxanne: Well, what's there to smile about?
Cynthia: He knows where I am if he wants me. He'd have had us up there to see it by now, I expect, if it weren't for her. Toffy-nosed cow.
Cynthia: I was stuck at home from the age of 10 looking after Maurice and your Granddad.

Roxanne: Yeah, we know.

Cynthia: Then I got saddled with you. That was my downfall, darling.

Roxanne: I didn't ask to be born.

Cynthia: No, and I never asked to have you neither.

Roxanne: Well, you should have thought about that before you dropped your knickers!
[repeated line]

Maurice: Lovely!
Monica Purley: Since when was Hoovering a spectator sport?
Monica Purley: I'm having milk. Not in a wine glass. Give me a highball. You don't put milk in a wine glass.
Cynthia: I'm known for my legs. If you've got it, flaunt it.
Roxanne: Just so's you know, I ain't staying the night, not every time I come round. And I want you to stop before. I was just speaking my mind, all right?

Paul: Yeah.

Roxanne: Now give us a snog.
Dionne: I don't wanna hear her and Norbert havin' it off. I don't want her to know who I'm havin' it off with, and I don't want her to see me drunk. Don't want her to know nothing about me.

Hortense Cumerbatch: Maybe that's because you're frightened that when you look at her you can see yourself in 20 years time.

Dionne: [rolls her eyes] Please.
Maurice: Roxanne not in then?

Cynthia: She's got some bloke in tow.

Maurice: Has she?

Cynthia: Shifty-looking bleeder. Walks like a crab.
Cynthia: I only see her first thing in the morning. She comes in, grunts, then buggers off to work.

Maurice: You should be glad she's got a fella.

Cynthia: I am glad, Maurice. I want her to be happy. But I'd like her to bring him 'round, see who she's knocking about with.
Cynthia: Dad liked her, didn't he? Nice thighs.
Maurice: Give him a ring. Get him to do something about it. It's his responsibility.

Cynthia: Don't be daft, Maurice. He don't give a toss, does he?
Maurice: My dad never said a word about my mum after she died.

Monica Purley: That's men for you.

Maurice: I hated him for it. He must have been in real pain. Maybe just couldn't share it. I didn't know what I felt. I still don't.
Maurice: Tell her if she can't make it, I'll give her a clump.

Cynthia: Not before I do.
Monica Purley: Do you think Roxanne's serious about this scaffolder bloke?
Cynthia: I'd like to meet him. I wouldn't know him if he stood up in me soup.

Roxanne: Don't hold your breath.
Hortense Cumerbatch: D'you like Italian food?

Cynthia: Yeah. I eat anything, me. Chinese, kebabs, the lot!
Maurice: Life isn't fair, is it? Someone always draws the short straw.
Stuart: You know what it's like, Maurice. You sweat your balls off for years and try and make people happy. And what d'you get back? Nothing!
Stuart: I can still do it! I've still got an eye. They can't teach you that. I'm still a photographer!
[repeated line]

Cynthia: Ta-da!
Monica Purley: Having a steak, are you, Cynthia?

Cynthia: Yes. Thank you, Monica.

Monica Purley: That'll put hairs on your chest.
Hortense Cumerbatch: You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.

Maurice: That's true.

Monica Purley: Can you?

Jane: Windows to your soul.

Cynthia: That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.

Jane: It's true though, ain't it.
Cynthia: She thought I'd been seein' a bloke. Could've been, I suppose. I can still turn a few heads.

Roxanne: Turn stomachs!
Monica Purley: I hope your wish comes true, pet.
Roxanne: She's a slag!

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Zion 2022-04-24 07:01:16

The script is fantastic. At the beginning of the funeral, Hortens burst into tears and the cello was filled with sadness and joy, which brought the tune of the entire film. The long mirror of the barbecue is so comfortable, the chat is like singing, the climax explodes and the end of the final healing, the director is very skilled. i am frightened, you don't love me anymore.
Cordelia 2022-04-22 07:01:41

Secrets & Lies (1996 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589