Beautiful Thing (1996)

Tameka Empson: Leah Russell

Photos 

Quotes 

• Leah : Don't suppose you've got any jobs in your new pub?

  Sandra : No. But if I ever do turn it into a brothel I'll get back to you, ok?

• Sandra : It's not natural, is it?

  Jamie : What ain't?

  Sandra : A girl her age being into Mama Cass.

  Leah : She's got a really beautiful voice.

  Sandra : And what's wrong with Madonna?

  Leah : She's a slag.

  Sandra : Hypocrite.

• Leah Russell : I wish I was the one that was going away. Nothing ever happens around here. I gets up in the morning, bake my face in half a ton of slap, tong my hair with yesterday's lacquer, that's it. It's the same every bleeding day. There's fuck-all to look forward to.

• Leah : Come on Slasher, let's go.

  Sandra : Slasher? What do you slash, crepe paper?

  Leah : He's incontinent.

• Leah : It's your bird. She talks to me like I've got "cunt" written on me forehead.

  Tony : You shouldn't use words like "bird".