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Educating Rita (film) Quotes

Educating Rita (film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Educating Rita stopped airing in 1970.

It features Lewis Gilbert as producer, David Hentschel in charge of musical score, and Frank Watts as head of cinematography.

Educating Rita (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Educating Rita (film) is 110 minutes long. Educating Rita (film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Julie Walters as Rita, Maureen Lipman as Trish, Michael Williams as Brian, Kim Fortune as Collins, and Malcolm Douglas as Denny.

Educating Rita (film) Quotes

Maureen Lipman as Trish

  • (Maureen Lipman) "Wouldn't you just die without Mahler?"

Kim Fortune as Collins

  • (Kim Fortune) "Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me."
  • (Kim Fortune) "Doctor, are you drunk?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober."
  • (Kim Fortune) "Then you won't mind if I leave your tutorial."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Why should I mind?"

Julie Walters as Rita

  • (Rita's Father) "Say, Denny. Denny, I'm sorry for you, lad. If she was a wife of mine I'd drown her."
  • (Julie Walters) "If I was a wife of yours I'd drown meself."
  • (Julie Walters) "Christ. My customer. She only come in for a demi-wave, she'll come out looking like a flippin' muppet."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "We split up, Rita, because of poetry."
  • (Julie Walters) "You what?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other."
  • (Julie Walters) "Are you a poet?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife; she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked."
  • (Julie Walters) "What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "No. I stopped writing altogether."
  • (Rita's Father) "Married six years and you're not pregnant yet? How old are you now, Susan?"
  • (Julie Walters) "I'm seventy-four, Dad."
  • (Rita's Father) "You are not. You're twenty-seven. What's wrong with you? Here's your sister, married six minutes, and she's already four months pregnant."
  • (Julie Walters) "I'm beginning to find me. It's great."
  • (Julie Walters) "You're a student, aren't you?"
  • (Unnamed) "Yes."
  • (Julie Walters) "So am I."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Sod them, eh, Rita. Sod them."
  • (Julie Walters) "Will they sack you?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Good God no. That would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it would have to be rape on a grand scale. And not just with students, either. That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. No, for dismissal it would have to be nothing less than buggering the Bursar."
  • (Julie Walters) "I don't often get the chance to talk to someone like you."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "I'm honored you chose me."
  • (Julie Walters) "Why?"
  • (Maureen Lipman) "Darling, why not?"
  • (Julie Walters) "Oh, Trish, don't. Come on, it's all right, don't cry. You're still here."
  • (Maureen Lipman) "That's why I'm crying; it didn't work. It didn't bloody work."
  • (Julie Walters) "Trish. Look, you didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just --"
  • (Maureen Lipman) "Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?"
  • (Julie Walters) "Trish, you have."
  • (Maureen Lipman) "Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough."
  • (Customer in Hairdressers) "What's that book you're reading, love?"
  • (Julie Walters) "Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"."
  • (Customer in Hairdressers) "Ohh, my husband's got loads of books like that."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "What does it say?"
  • (Julie Walters) "Right. I've passed. Now will you get on that bloody plane?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "Let me see. You've passed with distinction. I'm proud of you, Rita."
  • (Julie Walters) "I'm proud of both of us."

Michael Williams as Brian

  • (Michael Williams) "Yes, well, apparently you were a little -- drunk at your tutorial today."
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "No."
  • (Michael Williams) "No?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "No. I was a lot drunk."
  • (Michael Williams) "Oh, Frank, why do you do it? When you've got -- well, what haven't you got?"
  • (Dr. Frank Bryant) "A drink at the moment."

Malcolm Douglas as Denny

  • (Malcolm Douglas) "In my family, a man has only to look at a woman and she's pregnant."
  • (Julie Walters) "That's because you're all so cockeyed."

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