Quartet (2012)

Tom Courtenay: Reggie Paget

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Quotes 

• Wilf Bond : I read somewhere that the average man thinks of sex every seven seconds.

  Reginald Paget : Do you?

  Wilf Bond : I wish, it was only every seven seconds.

• Jean : Why do we have to get old?

  Reginald Paget : That's what people do.

• Reginald Paget : [to a class of teenagers]  Opera is: when a guy's stabbed in the back, instead of bleeding, he sings. It seems to me, after much research, that rap is when a guy is stabbed in the back, and instead of bleeding, he talks. Er, rhythmically, even with feeling. But because rap's *spoken*, the feeling is sort of held in check: all on one note.

• 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?