Look Back in Anger (1959)

Gary Raymond: Cliff Lewis

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• Jimmy Porter : You know, Mummy and I took a quick look at each other and from then on the age of chivalry was dead.

  Cliff Lewis : Don't brawl, boyo, it won't do any good.

  Jimmy Porter : Why not? It's the only thing I'm good at.

• Helena Charles : Never used to know whether he was joking or being serious.

  Cliff Lewis : He doesn't know himself half the time - if in doubt mark it down as an insult.

• Cliff Lewis : Don't think I'll stay much longer.

  Jimmy Porter : Why not?

  Cliff Lewis : I don't know, sweet store's alright but I'd like to try something else. You're highly educated, it suits you, but I need something a bit better.

• Cliff Lewis : Cheer up boyo. You look like a laxative commercial... before.

• Cliff Lewis : You're a brave girl.

  Alison Porter : I don't feel very brave Cliff, I really don't. I don't think I can take much more. I feel rather sick.

• Cliff Lewis : 14lbs of jelly babies, what do you want to get all them for?

  Jimmy Porter : Kids have got a craze on.

  Cliff Lewis : They better have.

• Jimmy Porter : You just sit there and do nothing.

  Cliff Lewis : That's right, I just sit here.

  Jimmy Porter : What sort of a man are you?

  Cliff Lewis : I'm not the District Commissioner, you know.

• Cliff Lewis : I love those two people very much and I pity all of us.

  Helena Charles : I don't understand you or him or any of it.

• Cliff Lewis : It's not the same, is it?

  Jimmy Porter : Of course not, it's never the same you idiot. Today's meal is always different from yesterday's, the last woman is always different from the one before.

• Cliff Lewis : My feet hurt.

  Jimmy Porter : Try washing your socks.

• Jimmy Porter : Nigel and Alison, they're what they sound like, sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous.

  Cliff Lewis : Big words.

  Jimmy Porter : Shall I tell you what they mean?

  Cliff Lewis : No not interested, don't want to know.

  Jimmy Porter : Soapy, stodgy and dim.

• Jimmy Porter : Do you know brother Nigel?

  Cliff Lewis : No I don't.

  Jimmy Porter : You never heard so many well-bred commonplaces come from beneath the same bowler hat. The Platitude from Outer Space, that's brother Nigel.

• Jimmy Porter : I'm getting hungry.

  Cliff Lewis : You're a bloody pig. You're like a sex maniac, only with you it's food. You'll end up in the News of the World, you wait - James Porter, 25, was bound over last night after pleading guilty to interfering with a small cabbage and a tin of beans. The accused said he hadn't been feeling well for some time and had been having blackouts.