The Land Girls (1998)

Catherine McCormack: Stella

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Quotes 

• Stella : Where's Prue?

  [Ag points towards the barn] 

  Stella : And where's Joe?

  [Ag points towards the barn again] 

  Stella : I should have known.

• Stella : [voiceover]  When the war came it changed everybody's lives. I left my cosy job in an office and volunteered for the Women's Land Army. We all had to pull together to help win the war. We had to grow more food or starve. I chose the Lawrence farm to be near my fiancé Philip who was an officer in the Navy

• Joe Lawrence : Have you lost something then, Miss Stella?

  Stella : No

  Joe Lawrence : What's up then?

  Stella : Nothing.

  Joe Lawrence : Where are you going then?

  Stella : Where do you think.

  Joe Lawrence : [loudly]  Ratty, she's looking for a place to go.

  Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand : What does she want? A perch?

  Stella : Please, I don't need a map.

  Joe Lawrence : [loudly]  Where can she go, Ratty?

  Ratty, Lawrence Farm Hand : There's a two-acre field over there, if that one's not big enough, there's the four-acre field over there.

  [points] 

  Stella : I have been in a field before.

  Joe Lawrence : Do you want some paper?

  Stella : No thank you, I've some of my own.

  Ag : I say, that was completely out of line old chap, actually.

  Joe Lawrence : You speak like you've got a plum in your mouth.

  Ag : Not cricket, as boys say.

• [during the war, Stella's fiancé Philip had lost his legs in a flying accident; now, after the war, the three girls meet up and catch up on each other's news] 

  Stella : Philip and I are getting divorced. He left me - ran off with another woman.

  [laughs] 

  Stella : Yes, well, hardly "ran".