The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000 TV Movie)

Judi Dench: Elizabeth

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Quotes 

• Elizabeth : You live here?

  Patrick : Yes, it's what they call a "grace and favour" residence. My father had the grace to die and did me the favour of leaving it to me.

• Elizabeth : I hate those stories that begin with a funeral, but I'm afraid this one begins the day we buried George. Not that we buried him. In the interests of the environment we had him incinerated.

• [Patrick enters the pub carrying a huge bunch of flowers] 

  Elizabeth : Here's my lift.

  Patricia : Mum! Who's he?

  Elizabeth : My fancy man.

• [At the crematorium, according to the late George's wishes the song 'Magic Moments' is played] 

  Patricia : Are you alright?

  Elizabeth : As well as can be expected.

  Patricia : If you want to cry, go ahead.

  Elizabeth : I just hate this fucking tune.

• Patrick : How did you get here?

  Elizabeth : Overnight sleeper. Central heating and a roof.

  Patrick : Does that mean I'm forgiven?

  Elizabeth : Absolutely not. But we need a trumpet player and I couldn't trust you to deliver one. I wouldn't trust you to deliver a bottle of milk.

• [Elizabeth's children have found out that she's busking on the streets] 

  Edward : Doesn't it strike you that what you're doing is a bit... well... degrading?

  Elizabeth : Well you try it. Last week we had a request from a tourist for the Japanese national anthem. That's unique that is. So we gave him 'One fine day' from Madame Butterfly and a joke about Pearl Harbor.

• Elizabeth : What do you know about the war? The 1939-45 one?

  Joanna : We beat Germany one nil?

• Elizabeth : Oh shut your face. Go to Scotland and come back with a trumpet player.

• Elizabeth : Our sole purpose is to get the band back together.

  Gwen : You got a gig?

  Patrick : Posters go up next month.

  Gwen : What is it?

  Elizabeth : Well, it's my granddaughter's school dance.

  Gwen : A school dance? I never played school dances even when I was at school.

• Joanna : So you were the only man in the band?

  Patrick : Just me and all those chicks.

  Elizabeth : Oh do you mind? I'm not and never have been a chick.

  Joanna : How did you get the job?

  Patrick : Well, they couldn't find a girl who played the drums. I had a quiet word with Betty the Bandleader, two pairs of nylon stockings and the job was mine.

  Elizabeth : Also he was on the run.

  Patrick : Also I was on the run.

• Elizabeth : Joanna, I need your advice.

  Joanna : I'll try...

  Elizabeth : What's the best way to show respect for the dead?

  Joanna : That's easy... you go on living.

• Elizabeth : I remember playing in the Metropole Ballroom. Mares eat oats and does eat oats. And knowing that at any moment a large bomb could fall on my head and blow us all to hell and back.