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A Hard Day's Night (film) Quotes

A Hard Day's Night (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . A Hard Day's Night ended its run in 1970.

It features Walter Shenson as producer, Musical Director: in charge of musical score, and Gilbert Taylor as head of cinematography.

A Hard Day's Night (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of A Hard Day's Night (film) is 87 minutes long. A Hard Day's Night (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Marianne Stone as Reporter, Wilfrid Brambell as John, Norman Rossington as Norm, Anna Quayle as Millie, Kenneth Haigh as Simon Marshall, and John Junkin as Shake.

A Hard Day's Night (film) Quotes

Wilfrid Brambell as John

  • (George) "That's not your grandfather."
  • (Paul) "It is, you know."
  • (George) "But I've seen your grandfather. He lives in your house."
  • (Paul) "Oh, that's my other grandfather, but he's my grandfather, as well."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "How do you reckon that one out?"
  • (Paul) "Well, everyone's entitled to two, aren't they?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Don't worry son, we'll get you the best lawyer green stamps can buy."
  • (Paul) "Oh ho, it's a laugh a line with Lennon."
  • (Paul) "Anyway, it's your fault."
  • (Ringo) "Why me?"
  • (George) "Why not you?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "God, it's depressing in here, isn't it? Funny. They usually reckon dogs more than people in England. You'd expect something more palatial."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Let's do something then."
  • (Paul) "Like what?"
  • (Paul) "Okay."
  • (George) "Cor, there's the girls."
  • (Ringo) "I'll deal 'em."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Aye aye, the Liverpool Shuffle."
  • (Ringo) "Mine, all mine."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "He's wearing his lucky rings."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Gear costume."
  • (Actor) "Swap?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Cheeky."
  • (T.V. Floor Manager) "They'll be here."
  • (T.V. Director) "Yes, well, if they aren't on this stage in precisely thirty seconds there'll be trouble? Do you hear me? Trouble."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Standin' around, hey? Some people have it dead easy."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "We've broken out. Ah, the blessed freedom of it all. Have you got a nail file, these handcuffs are killin me. I was framed, I'm innocent, I don't want to go."
  • (Paul) "Sorry for disturbing you, girls."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "I betchya can't guess what I was in for."
  • (Grandfather) "It's my considered opinion that you're a bunch of sissies."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You're just jealous."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Leave him alone, Lennon -- or I'll tell them all the truth about you."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You wouldn't."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Oh, I would, though."
  • (Ringo) "Any of you lot put a man in the cupboard?"
  • (George) "Nah."
  • (Paul) "Don't be soft."
  • (Ringo) "Well, someone did."
  • (George) "He's right, you know"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "There you go."
  • (Grandfather) "Hullo."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "He can talk then, can he?"
  • (Paul) "'Course he can talk. He's a human being, isn't he?"
  • (Ringo) "Well if he's your grandfather, who knows. Ha ha ha."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "And we're looking after him, are we?"
  • (Grandfather) "I'll look after myself."
  • (Paul) "Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "He's got you worried, then?"
  • (Paul) "Him? He's a villain, a real mixer. And he costs you a fortune in Breach of Promise cases."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Hey, look at the talent. Let's give them a pull."
  • (Paul) "Should I?"
  • (George) "Aye, but don't rush. None of your five-bar gate jumps and over sort of stuff."
  • (Paul) "What's that supposed to mean?"
  • (George) "I don't know, I just thought it sounded distinguished-like."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "George Harrison, the Scouse of distinction."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Control yourself. You'll spurt."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Ringo, what are you up to?"
  • (Ringo) "Page five."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You always fancied yourself as a guardsman, didn't you?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Must have cost you a fortune in stamps, Ringo."
  • (George) "He comes from a large family."
  • (Man on Train) "And we'll have that thing off as well, thank you."
  • (Ringo) "But --"
  • (Man on Train) "An elementary knowledge of the Railway Acts would tell you that I'm perfectly within my rights."
  • (Paul) "Yeah, but we want to hear it, and there's more of us than you. We're a community, like, a majority vote. Up the workers and all that stuff."
  • (Man on Train) "Then I suggest you take that damned thing to the corridor or some other part of the train where you obviously belong."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Give us a kiss."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Hey he's reading the Queen -- that's an in joke, you know."
  • (Ringo) "I don't snore."
  • (George) "You do, repeatedly."
  • (Ringo) "Do I snore, John?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Yeah, you're a window-rattler, son."
  • (Ringo) "That's just your opinion. Do I snore, Paul?"
  • (Paul) "With a trombone hooter like yours, it would be unnatural if you didn't."
  • (Grandfather) "Now, Paulie -- don't mock the afflicted."
  • (Paul) "Ah, come off it, it's only a joke."
  • (Grandfather) "Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter. And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "We know how to behave. We've had lessons."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "He's sex obsessed. The older generation's leading our nation in a state of galloping ruin."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You're a swine."
  • (Paul) "Yeah, where's the old mixer?"
  • (Grandfather) "Here, Paulie."
  • (Paul) "I've got a few words to say to you, two-faced John McCartney."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Oh, leave him alone. He's back, isn't he? He can't help being old."
  • (Paul) "What's being old got to do with it? He's a trouble-maker and a mixer, that's good enough for me."
  • (George) "There he goes. Look at him. Bet his wife doesn't know about her."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "If he's got one. Look at his sweater."
  • (Paul) "You never know, she might have knitted it."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "She knitted him."
  • (T.V. Director) "I won an award."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "A likely story."
  • (T.V. Director) "It's on the wall in my office."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You should have gone west to America. You would have been a senior citizen of Boston. But you took a wrong turn, and what happened? You're a lonely old man from Liverpool."
  • (Grandfather) "But I'm clean."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Are you?"
  • (Paul) "Let's split up and look for him."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "We've become a limited company."
  • (T.V. Director) "Now, look. If you think I'm unsuitable, let's have it out in the open. I can't stand these backstage politics."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Aren't you tending to black-and-white the situation somewhat?"
  • (T.V. Director) "Well, quite honestly, I wasn't expecting a musical arranger to question my ability picture-wise."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "I could listen to him for hours."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "My name's Betty."
  • (Ringo) "It's the Circle Club."
  • (Paul) ""The management of the Circle Club takes pleasure in requesting the company of Mr. Richard Starkey; that's you; to their gaming rooms. Chemin de Fer, Baccarat, and Champagne buffet"."
  • (Ringo) "They want me."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "It's gotten around you're a big spender."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Well, you're not going."
  • (Ringo) "Aww."
  • (Grandfather) "Quite right. Invites to gambling dens full of easy money and fast women. Chicken sandwiches and carts full of caviar. Disgusting."
  • (Ringo) "That's mine."

Norman Rossington as Norm

  • (Norman Rossington) "Stop being taller than me."
  • (John Junkin) "I can't help it."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Hey. Have you seen Paul's grandfather?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Of course. He's concealed about my person."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Now, he must have slipped off somewhere."
  • (Paul) "Have you lost him?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Don't exaggerate."
  • (Paul) "You've lost him."
  • (John Junkin) "Put it this way, Paulie: he's mislaid him."
  • (Norman Rossington) "God knows what you've unleashed on the unsuspecting South. It'll be wine, women, and song all the way with Ringo when he gets the taste for it."
  • (Norman Rossington) "The place is surging with girls."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Please, sir, sir, can I have one to surge me, sir, please, sir?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "No, you can't."
  • (Ringo) "None for me, then?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Sorry."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Here, this'll keep you busy."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Now look, I've had a marvelous idea. Just for once, let's all try to behave like ordinary, respectable citizens. Let's not cause any trouble, pull any strokes, or do anything I'm gonna be sorry for. Especially tomorrow at that television theater, because --"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Are you listening to me, Lennon?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "You're a swine. Isn't he, George?"
  • (George) "Yeah, a swine."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Thanks."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Hey."
  • (Ringo) "Who's that little old man?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Well, who is he?"
  • (Ringo) "He belongs to Paul."
  • (Norman Rossington) "This is a battle of nerves between John and me."
  • (John Junkin) "John hasn't got any."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Any what?"
  • (John Junkin) "Nerves."
  • (Norman Rossington) "That's the trouble. I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. Sometimes I think he enjoys seeing me suffer."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Shake, take that wig off. It suits you."
  • (Casino Manager) "Before you go, gentlemen, there's a little matter of the bill."
  • (Norman Rossington) "I'll take care of that."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Hundred eighty pounds?"
  • (Casino Manager) "I beg your pardon. Guineas."
  • (Casino Croupier) "Your winnings, my Lord. One hundred and ninety pounds."
  • (Grandfather) "Where are me change?"
  • (Casino Manager) "Cloakroom charge."
  • (Ringo) "Oh, well. Easy come, easy go."
  • (Ringo) "Well?"

John Junkin as Shake

  • (John Junkin) "He's been gone a long time."
  • (Norman Rossington) "Who?"
  • (John Junkin) "Paul's grandfather."
  • (John Junkin) "Oh, I didn't notice. Where'd he go?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Down the uh --"
  • (John Junkin) "Oh, down the uh --"
  • (Norman Rossington) "Yeah, down the uh --"
  • (John Junkin) "Oh, well give him a couple minutes, then."
  • (George) "Honestly. Me mind boggles at the very idea, a grown man and you haven't shaved with a safety razor."
  • (John Junkin) "It's not my fault. I come from a long line of electricians."
  • (John Junkin) "Well, he just asked if he could have those photos, and Norm said no, and I said, "Well, why not be big about it?""
  • (Paul) "Yeah, and?"
  • (Norman Rossington) "And your grandfather pointed out that Shake was always being taller than me just to spite me."
  • (John Junkin) "It's not my fault."
  • (Norman Rossington) "What?"
  • (John Junkin) "I'm not taller than you are. You're smaller than I am."

Marianne Stone as Reporter

  • (Marianne Stone) "Do you think these haircuts have come to stay?"
  • (Ringo) "Well, this one has. You know, it's stuck on good and proper now."
  • (Marianne Stone) "What do you call that collar?"
  • (Ringo) "A collar."
  • (Marianne Stone) "Are you a mod or a rocker?"
  • (Ringo) "Um, no. I'm a mocker."
  • (Marianne Stone) "How did you find America?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Turned left at Greenland."
  • (Marianne Stone) "Do you often see your father?"
  • (Paul) "No, actually, we're just good friends."
  • (Marianne Stone) "Has success changed your life?"
  • (George) "Yes."

Kenneth Haigh as Simon Marshall

  • (Kenneth Haigh) "Anyway, if you don't cooperate, you won't meet Susan."
  • (George) "And who's this Susan when she's at home?"
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "Only Susan Canby, our resident teenager. You'll have to love her, she's your symbol."
  • (George) "Oh, you mean that posh bird who gets everything wrong?"
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "I beg your pardon?"
  • (George) "Oh, yeah. The lads frequently sit 'round the television and watch her for a giggle. In fact, once, we all sat down, wrote these letters, saying how gear she was and all that rubbish."
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "She's a trendsetter. It's her profession."
  • (George) "She's a DRAG; a well-known drag. You turn the sound down on her and say rude things."
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "Get him out of here."
  • (George) "Have I said something amiss?"
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "Get him out. He's knocking the program's image."
  • (George) "Sorry about the shirts."
  • (Kenneth Haigh) "GET HIM OUT."

Anna Quayle as Millie

  • (Anna Quayle) "Oh, wait a minute, don't tell me who you are."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "No, I'm not."
  • (Anna Quayle) "Oh, you are."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "I'm not."
  • (Anna Quayle) "Oh, you are, I know you are."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "I'm not, no."
  • (Anna Quayle) "You look just like him."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Do I? You're the first one that's said that ever."
  • (Anna Quayle) "Yes, you do. Look."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "No, my eyes are lighter. The nose."
  • (Anna Quayle) "Oh, your nose is very."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Is it?"
  • (Anna Quayle) "I would have said so."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Oh, you know him better, though."
  • (Anna Quayle) "I do not. He's only a casual acquaintance."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "That's what you say."
  • (Anna Quayle) "What have you heard?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "It's all over the place."
  • (Anna Quayle) "Is it? Is it really?"
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Mmm, but I wouldn't have it. I stuck up for you."
  • (Anna Quayle) "I knew I could rely on you."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "Thanks."
  • (Anna Quayle) "You don't look like him at all."
  • (Wilfrid Brambell) "She looks more like him than I do."

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