Quartet (2012)
Maggie Smith: Jean Horton
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Quotes
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Jean : I'm going to say something very rude to you: fuck you.
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Jean : Are you telling me to go out and smell the roses?
Cissy Robson : Oh no. We're telling you the roses are long gone. But the chrysanthemums are magnificent.
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Dr. Lucy Cogan : [Showing a picture] This is Sir Thomas Beecham. He was one of Britain's greatest composers.
Jean : Yes, I know who he was. He inherited a fortune. His grandfather made laxatives. Naming a nursing home after him is frighteningly apt.
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Jean : Why do we have to get old?
Reginald Paget : That's what people do.
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Jean : This is not a retirement home, it is a madhouse!
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Jean : Oh Reg, please, this is the first time we've seen each other in God knows how many years.
Reginald Paget : Ninety-seven.
Cissy Robson : [gasps] Is it really that long? God, how time flies.
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Jean : Make up your mind, dear.
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Cissy Robson : Jean... Jean, if you say yes, Cedric will give us the finale, instead of Anne Langley.
Jean : Anne Langley!
Cissy Robson : Yes.. yes, she wanted to sing Violetta... and she was, of course, a very fine Violetta...
Jean : Oh pull yourself together, Cissy! Violetta's supposed to be dying of tuberculosis. She sounded as if she was singing Falstaff.
Cissy Robson : Well, she's singing Tosca now.
Jean : [Quietly, after a stunned pause] Over my dead body.
Reginald Paget : Was that a yes?
