Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Vanessa Redgrave: Peggy Ramsay

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• Peggy Ramsay : Ken was the first wife. He did all the work and the waiting and then...

  John Lahr : Well, first wives don't usually beat their husbands' heads in.

  Peggy Ramsay : No. Though why I can't think.

  John Lahr : So what does that make you? The second wife?

  Peggy Ramsay : Better than that, dear. The widow.

• Peggy Ramsay : Prison gives a writer credentials.

  John Lahr : Everyone else, it takes them away.

• Leonie Orton : [mixing Joe and Kenneth's ashes]  I think I'm putting in more of Joe than I am of Kenneth.

  Peggy Ramsay : It's a gesture, dear, not a recipe.

• Peggy Ramsay : At moments of triumph, men can do without their wives... But sharing is what wives want.