Beautiful Thing
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Beautiful Thing is a 1993 play and 1995 film, both written by Jonathan Harvey.
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Sandra [edit]
- There's me going to bed every night worried because you had to share a bed with Ste, and all the time you were... you turned a seventy minus one.
- No, I know what you need... a shooting.
Others [edit]
- Leah's Mother: Oh, I suppose I should be glad it's not techno-acidic housey-housey pop trash.
Dialogue [edit]
- Ryan: What you fuckin' looking at!?
- Miss Chauhan: Less "fucking" and more attention, please! [looking at a pregnant student] Something you might have said to your boyfriend that, Gina.
- Mr. Bennet: Oy, He! What's his name?
- McBride: Hugh, sir. Hugh Janus. (Huge anus)
- Tony: Jamie... how old are you?
- Jamie: Old enough. How old are you?
- Tony: Twenty-seven; not old enough to be your dad, right?
- Ryan: How about a drink?
- Sandra: Have a wank, big bollocks!
- Neighbour: It's her; she can't control her kids!
- Leah's Mother: I have only got the one, you know.
- Neighbour: It's just as bloody well!
- [Jamie and Ste go to bed]
- Jamie: ...Ste?
- Ste: Hm?
- Jamie: You alright?
- Ste: Yeah.
- [Jamie pauses]
- Jamie: ...Ste?
- Ste: What?
- Jamie: Night.
- Ste: Night, Jamie.
- Sandra: What's the matter with Madonna?
- Leah: She's a slag.
- Sandra: Hypocrit.
- Jamie: Scared of being called queer!?
- Ste: ...Are you?
- Jamie: Maybe... maybe not.
- Ste: And are you?
- Jamie: Queer?
- Ste: Gay.
- Jamie: I'm very happy. I'm happy when I'm with you... There, I said it now; go on, piss yourself.
- Ste: No.
- Jamie: Why, don't you think it's funny?
- Ste: I don't want to.
- Jamie: I think it's hilarious.
- Ste: Why aren't you laughing then?
- Jamie: I'm a queer! A bender! Puffer! Nob-shiner! Brown-atter! Shirt-flap lifter--!
- Tony: --I get the picture.
- Jamie: Now just leave me alone.
- Tony: And she knows this?
- Jamie: [sarcastically] No, I thought I'd tell you first!
- Jamie: Thanks for telling me.
- Sandra: Snap.
- Sandra: What happened? School burnt down, did it?
- Jamie: Yeah.
- Sandra: Ah, and what has been this time? An IRA Bomb?
- Jamie: Fundamentalist Muslim Pyromaniacs.
- Sandra: Oh, funny that. Looks all right when I passed.
- Jamie: Yeah, [sarcastically] funny that.
- Sandra: You, out! You're under age.
- Leah: I'm only drinking Coke.
- Sandra: You'll drinking blood when I slap your face. Now move it!
- Leah: Oh, you're so hard!
- Slasher: Was that a threat?
- Sandra: Yeah, and here's another one: Get out before I call your child minder.
- Leah: Come on Slasher, I don't want to be asked.
- Sandra: ¿Slasher?... ¿What do you slash? ¿Crepe paper?
- Leah: He's incontinent.
- Interviewer: To whom would you offer the job?
- Sandra: It's obvious. Isn't it?
- Sandra: The bird with the biggest tits.
- Jamie: It's my mom's. The Body Shop. Peppermint foot lotion... soothes your feet.
- Jamie: Lay down, and I'll rub it into your back. If you want.
- After Jamie kissed Ste
- Ste: Do you think I'm queer?
- Jamie: It doesn't matter what I think.
- Jamie: Can I touch you?
- Ste: I'm a bit sore.
- Jamie: Yeah.
- Sandra: Ey, Ste!, any beans to spill? A little bird tells me that you're in love.
- Ste: What?
- Sandra: A four-letter word, love.
- Sandra: Oh, don't look so worried, Jamie told me all about it.
- Tony: She's just jeleaous. Twenty years younger and could have been her.
- Sandra: Come on, what's she like!?... Well, what's her name then!?
- Ste: No-.
- Sandra: Oh, short for Nolene? It's very Home and Away.
- Ste: I got you this.
- Jamie: Oh My, What a pretty hat! It's the prettiest hat I ever did seen Mr. Steven. Does this mean were engaged?
- Sandra: It's a work of art. Isn't it?
- Jamie: Claude Monet couldna done better.
- Sandra: Argh! Get a life!
- Jamie: Do you know who Claude Monet is?
- Sandra: Jamie! don't make me out to be fick.
- Sandra: Now, you just remember, I won a year's supply of toilet freshener for making up that poem. It took brains and artistry that.
- Jamie: Some things are just hard to say.
- Sandra: I know, I know that.
- Jamie: You think I'm young, that it's just a phase. You think I'll catch AIDS... and everything.
- Sandra: You know a lot about me, don't you?
- [Jamie is crying]
- Sandra: Don't cry.
- Sandra: It's all right. I'm not going to put you out in the morning like an empty bottle.
- Leah: I suppose you don't have any job in your new pub.
- Sandra: No. But if I someday turn it into a brothel, I'll get back to you then. OK?
- Sandra: Ey, Leah.
- Leah: What?
- Sandra: What's this dyke will be like?
- Leah: Ah, big and butch.
- Sandra: What colour eyes?
- Leah: Hmm. Green.
- Sandra: Tall?
- Leah: I'll have to look up.
- Sandra: Nice.
- Leah: Yeah.
- Sandra: Louise?
- Louise: Yeah?
- Sandra: I would never have a grandchildren.
- Louise: Ouh.
