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I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like. I said that means you'll never be able to do it.

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On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

The Orton Diaries (1986)

With insanity, as with vomit, it is the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The Orton Diaries (1986)

Usual messages from the heads of the establishment. The Queen from Windsor, the Pope from Rome: Pilate and Caiaphas celebrating the birth of Christ.

The Orton Diaries (1986)

Truscott (shouting, knocking Hal to the floor): Under any other political system I'd have you on the floor in tears!
Hal (crying): You've got me on the floor in tears!

Loot (1965)

Truscott: How dare you involve me in a situation for which no memo has been issued.

Loot (1965)

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