Secrets & Lies (1996)

Brenda Blethyn: Cynthia

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• [last lines] 

  Cynthia : Oh, this is the life, ain't it?

  Roxanne , Hortense Cumerbatch : Yeah.

• Cynthia : You gotta laugh, ain't ya sweetheart? Else you'd cry.

• Cynthia : I can still turn a few heads...

  Roxanne : ...and a few stomachs!

• Cynthia : But sweetheart, I can't be your mother!

  Hortense Cumerbatch : Why not?

  Cynthia : Well... look at me!

• Cynthia : Where's this food, then? I'm ravishin'.

  [Hortense laughs] 

  Cynthia : What?

  [Hortense chuckles] 

• Cynthia : [to Hortense]  You look more like me than m'daughter does!

• Cynthia : I was stuck at home from the age of 10 looking after Maurice and your Granddad.

  Roxanne : Yeah, we know.

  Cynthia : Then I got saddled with you. That was my downfall, darling.

  Roxanne : I didn't ask to be born.

  Cynthia : No, and I never asked to have you neither.

  Roxanne : Well, you should have thought about that before you dropped your knickers!

• Cynthia : He knows where I am if he wants me. He'd have had us up there to see it by now, I expect, if it weren't for her. Toffy-nosed cow.

• Cynthia : You've been sitting there for a month with a face like a slapped arse.

  Roxanne : Well, what's there to smile about?

• Cynthia : I'm known for my legs. If you've got it, flaunt it.

• Maurice : Give him a ring. Get him to do something about it. It's his responsibility.

  Cynthia : Don't be daft, Maurice. He don't give a toss, does he?

• Maurice : Roxanne not in then?

  Cynthia : She's got some bloke in tow.

  Maurice : Has she?

  Cynthia : Shifty-looking bleeder. Walks like a crab.

• Cynthia : I only see her first thing in the morning. She comes in, grunts, then buggers off to work.

  Maurice : You should be glad she's got a fella.

  Cynthia : I am glad, Maurice. I want her to be happy. But I'd like her to bring him 'round, see who she's knocking about with.

• Cynthia : Dad liked her, didn't he? Nice thighs.

• Cynthia : I'd like to meet him. I wouldn't know him if he stood up in me soup.

  Roxanne : Don't hold your breath.

• Maurice : Tell her if she can't make it, I'll give her a clump.

  Cynthia : Not before I do.

• [repeated line] 

  Cynthia : Ta-da!

• Hortense Cumerbatch : D'you like Italian food?

  Cynthia : Yeah. I eat anything, me. Chinese, kebabs, the lot!

• Hortense Cumerbatch : You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.

  Maurice : That's true.

  Monica Purley : Can you?

  Jane : Windows to your soul.

  Cynthia : That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.

  Jane : It's true though, ain't it.

• Monica Purley : Having a steak, are you, Cynthia?

  Cynthia : Yes. Thank you, Monica.

  Monica Purley : That'll put hairs on your chest.

• Cynthia : She thought I'd been seein' a bloke. Could've been, I suppose. I can still turn a few heads.

  Roxanne : Turn stomachs!