Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Wendy Nottingham: Helen Lenoir

Quotes 

• Helen Lenoir : The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

• Richard D'Oyly Carte : Who told you that?

  Richard Barker : Hollingshead. I played a game of cricket with him this morning before breakfast at Coram's Fields.

  Helen Lenoir : In this heat?

  Richard Barker : Yes, madam, but not in this attire.

  Helen Lenoir : Oh, good.

• Sullivan : May I remind you, Helen, that I am not a machine.

  Helen Lenoir : I would not suggest for one moment that you were.

  Sullivan : You all seem to be treating me as a barrel-organ. You have but to turn my handle, and Hey Presto! Out pops a tune.

• Helen Lenoir : [during a heat wave]  I fear we shall all have to pray for rain.

  Richard Barker : Well, if it's any consolation, every theatre in town is afflicted. Even the Gaiety, graced as it is with Madame Bernhardt's execrable Lady Macbeth.