Quartet (2012)

Pauline Collins: Cissy Robson

Photos 

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?