Beautiful Thing (1996)

Linda Henry: Sandra Gangel

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Quotes 

• Jamie : You know who Claude Monet is?

  Sandra : Jamie, don't make me out to be thick.

  Jamie : Who was he then?

  Sandra : He painted the Sixteenth Chapel.

• 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 : You're pissed! From a bloody gay bar!

  Jamie : How do you know it's a gay bar?

  Sandra : Cos it's got a bloody great pink neon arse outside of it!

• 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.

• Sandra : What happened? School burned down, did it?

  Jamie : Yeah.

  Sandra : What was it this time? IRA bomb?

  Jamie : Fundamentalist Muslim pyromaniacs.

  Sandra : Oh, funny, that. Looked all right when I walked past it.

• Sandra : Where are you going?

  Jamie : Out with my mates.

  Sandra : Jamie... you ain't got any mates.

• Ste : There ain't nowhere else.

  Sandra : There is, actually, Ste. There's an island in the Mediterranean called Lesbian, and all its inhabitants are dykes. So you've got your eye wiped there.

• Sandra Gangel : Now you just remember I won a year's supply of toilet freshener for making up that poem. That took brains and artistry, that did.

• Sandra : It's for his bird.

  Tony : Do you have to use words like that? It really disempowers you.

• Leah : Come on Slasher, let's go.

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

  Leah : He's incontinent.

• Jamie : [hearing phone ring]  That'll be the phone.

  Sandra : Well it wouldn't be the bloody Hoover bag, would it?

• Sandra : Jamie, who played the Baroness in the Sound of Music?

  Jamie : Eleanor Parker!

• Sandra : All I want outta life is enough money to buy a decent pair o'shoes that don't let in the rain.

• Sandra : [Talking about Ste after he rushes off, obviously upset]  What's his problem?

  Jamie : He's in love, that's all.