Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

Glenda Jackson: Alex Greville

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• Alex : Hmm...

  [sniffing] 

  Alex : It's funny, there's a smell that is just like po...

  [pause] 

  Alex : Children... are you smoking pot?

  Lucy : Are you bourgeois?

• Bob : Don't come to me like a possessive wife!

  Alex : Well, I wouldn't if you hadn't left me with five children and a dog!

  Bob : Look, I know you feel you're not getting enough of me, but you're getting all there is.

  Alex : Well, you're spreading yourself a little thin, aren't you?

• Alex : Is this milk all right for Bob to drink?

  Lucy : It's mummy's.

  Alex : I'm sure she won't mind.

  Lucy : It's *mummy's*, for John-Stuart. He's not *weaned* yet.

  Alex : Oh.

  Bob : [gags]  Oh, my God.

• Alex : I can't see why my having an affair with someone on and off is any worse that being *married* for a course or two at mealtimes.

  Mrs. Greville : But darling... you keep throwing in your hand because you haven't got the whole thing. There *is* no whole thing, my poppet. You have to make it work.

• Alex : I've had this business: "Anything is better than nothing." There are times when nothing *has* to be better than anything.

• Bob : I do wish they'd have American fuses in this country.

  Alex : Why is it that whenever you're stuck, everything is always better in America. How do you know?

• Bob : Nothing's changed.

  Alex : I've changed! All this fitting in and making do and shutting up.

• Alex : I won't be here when you get back. I can't come over. Don't ring. We've got to pack this in and I don't know what else to say.

  Bob : Alex...

  Alex : Me being careful not to ask you about Daniel. Daniel not getting answers from you because you're here! My old Mum not making demands for umpteen years and my fucking office! I don't want us to live like this.

• Bob : We're free to do what we want.

  Alex : Darling... other people often do what they don't want to do at all.

• Alex : I'm not angry with you. I bought it because I love you. I bought your terms and they were - rotten terms and I shouldn't have done it. My fault.

  Bob : You keep asking too much.

  Alex : For God's sake! Caring a lot about someone, is that too much! People that have some tie for each other, is that too much?

• Timothy : Blecch!

  Alex : Serves you right for pinching my breakfast.

  Timothy : Not *your* breakfast! Papa paid for it!

  Bob : Well, there's socialism for you.

• Mr. Harding : Its my age, isn't it. When your over fifty, in a properly run business, you're over the hump!

  Alex : You shouldn't say that.

  Mr. Harding : They give you the golden handshake or a sherry party and you can't find another job and that's that.

• Mr. Harding : It is firms like you that are turning me out to grass. Me and all the other fifty year olds.

  Alex : You told me fifty-five.

  Mr. Harding : Fifty.

  Alex : Hang on to that, then.

• Bob : I want some milk.

  Alex : Oh, my God, you get more and more like an American. I want some wine!

• Bob : It's not because of me, is it?

  Alex : No, my duck, it is not because of you. You turn everything to yourself!

• Alex : Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

  Bob : You are a silly tart!

• Alex : I wouldn't want to ring him there - it's a doctor you know.

  Answering Service Lady : Yes I know that, it's Dr Hirsch. Dr Hirsch also uses this service.

• Bob : Come here. What have you got that on for?

  Alex : I don't know.

  Bob : Well take it off!

  [Alex disrobes and gets into bed]