My Family (TV Series)

Death Takes a Policy (2000)

Gabriel Thomson: Michael Harper

Quotes 

• Ben Harper : Imagine life is a piece of string.

  Michael Harper : What kind?

  Ben Harper : What do you mean? String. String.

  Michael Harper : Well, there's all kinds. I mean, there's kite string, there's twine...

  Ben Harper : OK! Yes, yes...

  Michael Harper : ...there's fishing line...

  Ben Harper : There's rope! There's rope! I'm talking about string! A little string, OK?

  Michael Harper : String.

  Ben Harper : String. It's got a beginning, a middle and an end... and it gets twisted and turned, and sometimes it gets knotted and tangled, and sometimes it can be cut short.

  Michael Harper : ...or have a conker put on the end!

  Ben Harper : Or have a conker put... Erm, I don't think you're quite getting this string thing, are you?

• Ben Harper : The Nemesis ride is a lot like life, OK? You think nothing's ever going to happen. It starts off very slowly, and then before you know it, you're at the top. And the view is... is, is wonderful. It's great. And then from then on, it's downhill all the way - through darkness, fear, death-drying bends and stomach churning lurches...

  Michael Harper : And that's death?

  Ben Harper : ...no, that's still life!

• Ben Harper : Wouldn't you rather hear where babies come from?

  Michael Harper : Everyone knows that.

  Ben Harper : Do they? Not when I was your age!

• Michael Harper : Are you going to die young, like she said?

  Ben Harper : No, no. Firstly, I'm too old to die young. And secondly, she goes out with your brother, so what the hell does she know?