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James Corden, Sacha Dhawan, Richard Griffiths, Andrew Knott, Russell Tovey, Dominic Cooper, Samuel Barnett, Samuel Anderson, and Jamie Parker in The History Boys (2006)

James Corden: Timms

The History Boys

James Corden credited as playing...

Timms

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  • [in an art-appreciation lesson, discussing the nudes of Michaelangelo]
  • Timms: These aren't women. They're just men with tits. And the tits look as if they've been put on with an ice-cream scoop!
  • [about A.E. Housman]
  • Timms: Wasn't he a nancy, sir?
  • Hector: Foul, festering, grubby-minded little trollop! Do not use that word!
  • [Hector hits Timms on the head with an exercise book]
  • Timms: But you use it, sir!
  • Hector: I do, sir, I know, but I am far gone in age and decrepitude.
  • Timms: You've got crap handwriting, sir!
  • Tom Irwin: It's your eyesight that's bad, and we know what that's caused by.
  • Timms: Sir! Is that a coded reference to the mythical dangers of self-abuse?
  • Tom Irwin: Possibly. It might even be a joke.
  • Dakin: A joke, sir. Oh. Are jokes going to be a feature, sir? We need to know as it affects our mindset.
  • [Timms is trying to duck out of Athletics]
  • Wilkes: What's the matter with you, lad?
  • Timms: I've got a note.
  • Wilkes: How much for?
  • [laughs]
  • Wilkes: I don't *do* notes! Get changed!
  • Timms: Sir...
  • Wilkes: God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
  • Scripps: Actually, sir, I think he *did*...
  • Tom Irwin: You were quoting somebody. Auden, isn't it?
  • Timms: [Expansively] Was I, sir? Sometimes it just flows out, y'know, brims over!
  • Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
  • Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.

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