The Party (I) (2017)

Patricia Clarkson: April

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• April : Babies, excuse me Jinny, Martha, babies get born every day in extremely large numbers to the point of endangering the planet and all our futures. It's not every day, however, that one of us becomes a minister. In your entirely rotten and useless opposition party.

• April : You're a *first* class lesbian and a *second* rate thinker. Must be all those women's studies.

• April : Please tell me you're not meditating, Gottfried. Pull yourself together!

• Jinny : IVF is practically a miracle.

  April : And I thought it was a procedure involving a Petri dish.

• April : Gottfried and I are seperating. This is our last supper.

• Gottfried : I believe it's better to hit a cushion than to eat herself.

  April : She wants to smash his face in, not ruin her soft furnishings.

• April : Oh, don't worry about her. Looks like a girl, thinks like a man. Androgynous soul always had true grit.

• Janet : We will be sharing an office now, she is on my team.

  April : Lucky you, gazing on all that genetic good fortune.

• Martha : Where is Janet?

  April : Doing a Thatcher. Proving she can still rustle up a canape in the kitchen when necessary, despite her political prowess.

• April : You mean you'll be her boss?

  Janet : Well, I don't actually use that word, but yes, I suppose so.

  April : So she'll be your underling, taking copious notes while plotting how to take your place some time.

• April : Look, if Dennis Thatcher and Prince Philip could trail behind their female leaders without complaint, then so can Bill.

• April : The beautiful Marianne, queen of spin and that ridiculously handsome husband of hers. Too bad he's a wanker banker with a mysterious ability to make millions out of other's misfortune.

• Jinny : So you have had a man inside you after all. And it was fun. That is so disgusting. I'm disgusted.

  April : Oh, it sounds like you might have *three* little men inside you.

  [Tom laughs]