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Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Secrets & Lies (1996)

Timothy Spall: Maurice

Secrets & Lies

Timothy Spall credited as playing...

Maurice

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Quotes13

  • Maurice: Secrets and lies! We're all in pain! Why can't we share our pain? I've spent my entire life trying to make people happy, and the three people I love the most in the world hate each other's guts, and I'm in the middle! I can't take it anymore!
  • Maurice: She can't help it; she never had enough love
  • Monica Purley: Can't miss what you never had!
  • Maurice: Can't you?
  • Maurice: Life isn't fair then is it. Somebody always draws the short straw.
  • [repeated line]
  • Maurice: Lovely!
  • Hortense Cumerbatch: You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.
  • Maurice: That's true.
  • Monica Purley: Can you?
  • Jane: Windows to your soul.
  • Cynthia: That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.
  • Jane: It's true though, ain't it.
  • Maurice: My dad never said a word about my mum after she died.
  • Monica Purley: That's men for you.
  • Maurice: I hated him for it. He must have been in real pain. Maybe just couldn't share it. I didn't know what I felt. I still don't.
  • Maurice: Is that a suit?
  • Monica Purley: It came as a combination.
  • Maurice: They go together?
  • Monica Purley: Well, if you think they do, they do, and if you think they don't, they don't.
  • Maurice: Give him a ring. Get him to do something about it. It's his responsibility.
  • Cynthia: Don't be daft, Maurice. He don't give a toss, does he?
  • Maurice: Roxanne not in then?
  • Cynthia: She's got some bloke in tow.
  • Maurice: Has she?
  • Cynthia: Shifty-looking bleeder. Walks like a crab.
  • Cynthia: I only see her first thing in the morning. She comes in, grunts, then buggers off to work.
  • Maurice: You should be glad she's got a fella.
  • Cynthia: I am glad, Maurice. I want her to be happy. But I'd like her to bring him 'round, see who she's knocking about with.
  • Maurice: Tell her if she can't make it, I'll give her a clump.
  • Cynthia: Not before I do.
  • Maurice: Life isn't fair, is it? Someone always draws the short straw.

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