Patrick Melrose (TV Mini Series)
Bad News (2018)
Benedict Cumberbatch: Patrick Melrose
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Quotes
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Patrick Melrose : What's the point of a fucking window if you can't throw yourself out of it?
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Restaurant Waiter : Would sir care for a dessert?
Patrick Melrose : Care for it? How do you care for a dessert? Feed it? Visit it on Sundays?
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Marianne : They fuck you up, your mom and your dad. They don't mean to but they do.
Patrick Melrose : Who says they don't mean to?
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Marianne : Tell me, did you ever tell your dad what you felt about him?
Patrick Melrose : Not while he was alive. Probably for the best.
Marianne : What would you have said to him?
Patrick Melrose : I would have said... I would have told him... "Nobody should do that to anyone else."
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Restaurant Waiter : Is everything alright?
Patrick Melrose : How can everything be alright? It's simply too much to hope for.
Restaurant Waiter : It's just that there've been some complaints.
Patrick Melrose : You mean the voices aren't just in my head?
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Restaurant Waiter : Will anyone be joining you?
Patrick Melrose : [laughing] Fucking hell, I hope not!
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Patrick Melrose : I want to die... I want to die...
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Patrick Melrose : [attempting to destroy his father's urn] I'm going to flush you down the loo! Send you to sewers with the alligators and the shit!
[breaks a toilet tank cover on the box]
Patrick Melrose : [enraged] HOW?
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Patrick Melrose : [in an American accent] You were so fucking sad, Dad, man. And now you're trying to make me sad too. Boo hoo!
Patrick Melrose : [in his own voice] Well bad luck.
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Patrick Melrose : Life's not just a bag of shit, but a leaky one. You can't help but be touched by it.
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Patrick Melrose : [after being led into the wrong funeral parlour] Wrong fucking corpse!
Funeral Parlour Receptionist : Oh are you sure?
Patrick Melrose : Death transforms us all, but it's not so powerful as to turn my father into a small Jew. Try again!
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Patrick Melrose : You mean have I taken any drugs?
Debbie Hickman : No. Not just that. Why? Have you?
Patrick Melrose : Well, I've been shooting cocaine and heroin all night. Does that count?
Debbie Hickman : Was that a good idea?
Patrick Melrose : In the future, can we agree that, no, it is not a good idea?
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Patrick Melrose : [to his father's corpse] You didn't want to go, did you? You knew you were going to die and you were right. What did that feel like? Pain or rage? Were you scared? Christ, I hope so!
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Patrick Melrose : Everything's wrong! Everything's hopelessly FUCKED UP!