Secrets & Lies (1996)

Timothy Spall: Maurice

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• Maurice : Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!

• Maurice : She can't help it; she never had enough love

• Monica Purley : Can't miss what you never had!

  Maurice : Can't you?

• Maurice : Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.

• [repeated line] 

  Maurice : Lovely!

• Maurice : Is that a suit?

  Monica Purley : It came as a combination.

  Maurice : They go together?

  Monica Purley : Well, if you think they do, they do, and if you think they don't, they don't.

• Maurice : My dad never said a word about my mum after she died.

  Monica Purley : That's men for you.

  Maurice : I hated him for it. He must have been in real pain. Maybe just couldn't share it. I didn't know what I felt. I still don't.

• 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.

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

  Cynthia : Not before I do.

• Maurice : Life isn't fair, is it? Someone always draws the short straw.

• 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.