Shirley Valentine (film) Quotes

Shirley Valentine (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Shirley Valentine ended in 1970.

It features Lewis Gilbert as producer, Marvin Hamlisch in charge of musical score, and Alan Hume as head of cinematography.

Shirley Valentine (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Shirley Valentine (film) is 108 minutes long. Shirley Valentine (film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine, Bernard Hill as Joe Bradshaw, and Tracie Bennett as Millandra Bradshaw.

Shirley Valentine (film) Quotes

Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine

• (Pauline Collins) "I think sex is like supermarkets, you know, overrated. Just a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end."

• (Pauline Collins) "Jane divorced her husband. I never knew him, it was before I met her. Apparently she came home from work unexpectedly one morning and found him in bed with the milkman. Honest to God, the milkman. But from that day forward I've noticed she never takes milk in her tea."

• (Pauline Collins) "Oh, I hope he stays for a while. He needs a holiday. He needs to feel the sun on his skin and to be in water that's as deep as forever."
• (Pauline Collins) "Joe."
• (Bernard Hill) "I didn't recognize ya."
• (Pauline Collins) "I know. I used to be The Mother. I used to be The Wife. But now I'm Shirley Valentine again. Would you like to join me for a drink?"
• (Bernard Hill) "Er -- thanks."

• (Pauline Collins) "So, just think how exciting it'll be if for once you had it at a quarter past six. It'd make headlines. "World exclusive: Joe eats late.""

• (Pauline Collins) "Oh my God. Where did that orchestra come from?"

• (Pauline Collins) "Those travel sickness pills mustn't be working.I still feel sick and I've taken four already. And I've only travelled up and down the stairs."

• (Pauline Collins) "It's a good job we're not having soup, or else I'd put me head in it and drown meself."

• (Pauline Collins) "That's right, Millandra, I'm going to Greece for the sex. Sex for breakfast. Sex for dinner. Sex for tea. And sex for supper."
• (Van Driver) "Sounds like a fantastic diet, love."
• (Pauline Collins) "It is, have you never heard of it? It's called the "F" plan."

• (Pauline Collins) "I'm not sayin' he's bad, my fella. He's just no bleedin' good."

• (Pauline Collins) "Hiya Wall."
• (Pauline Collins) "Well what's wrong with that? There's a woman three doors down talks to her microwave. Talking to a microwave. Wall, what's the world coming to ?"

• (Pauline Collins) "What am I doing? She's only been home for five minutes and I'm already running around like R-2-bleedin' D-2"

• (Pauline Collins) "I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?"

• (Pauline Collins) "I think that marriage is like the Middle East; there's no solution."

• (Pauline Collins) "I was never really interested in school after that."
• (Pauline Collins) "I became a rebel."
• (Pauline Collins) "I used to wear my school skirt so high you would have thought it was a serviette."
• (Pauline Collins) "I was marvelous."
• (Pauline Collins) "I used to exude boredom from every pore and I hated everything."

• (Pauline Collins) "I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. She's that type, Gillian, you know. If you've got a headache, she's got a brain tumor."

Tracie Bennett as Millandra Bradshaw

• (Tracie Bennett) "Greece, at your age, you and that Jane ? It's obscene."

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