Ian McKellen credited as playing...
John Profumo
- John Profumo: She must be stopped. She's talking to everybody.
- Lord Astor: Yes. If it's a matter of money...
- Stephen Ward: What she needs is a holiday. Bit of sun on her back, somewhere quiet. Spain or Portugal. That's what she needs.
- Lord Astor: Yes, just the job.
- Stephen Ward: Do her a world of good.
- John Profumo: You don't think she might kick up a fuss? Christine?
- Stephen Ward: Leave Christine to me, Jack, I dreamt her up. I can make her vanish.
- John Profumo: I have nothing to hide.
- Stephen Ward: Come off it, John. We all have something to hide. What a rum life it would be if we didn't.
- John Profumo: Do you know what I like about you, Christine?
- Christine Keeler: My ass.
- John Profumo: [chuckles] Correct. You're always so happy. I don't know how you do it.
- Christine Keeler: You make me happy, Jack.
- John Profumo: I must dash.
- Christine Keeler: You're always in such a rush.
- John Profumo: I have an army to run. I have to go down to Leicestershire, stand on the back of a lorry in the pissing-down rain and salute the Territorials.
- John Profumo: [they're admiring a painting of Venice] You've never made love until you've made love in a gondola.
- Christine Keeler: [regards him for several seconds] I remember a rowing boat. Never a gondola.
- [John gives her an amused look]
- John Profumo: We can't go on like this. You living here, ducking and diving. You must let me find you a place of your own.
- Christine Keeler: I've told you, I'm happy as I am.
- John Profumo: I can't go on seeing you while you're living here with Ward.
- Christine Keeler: Don't be silly. He's not my boyfriend. You know that. I don't know why you don't like him.
- John Profumo: He can't keep his mouth shut. He's vain, shallow and empty-headed.
- Christine Keeler: Not true.
- John Profumo: [firmly] I must get you out of his clutches.
- Christine Keeler: He doesn't clutch.