Misbehaviour (2020)

Keira Knightley: Sally Alexander

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• Sally Alexander : [speaking on TV about The Miss World Competition]  The only other forum in which participants are weighed, measured and publicly examined before being assigned their value is a cattle market.

• Professor Davidson : [at the university interview]  So, history, why have we never had a revolution in Britain?

  Sally Alexander : The civil war was was won by the rebels, but even then the new order only lasted a generation. So, surely, the real question is: Why have all our revolutions failed?

• Evelyn Alexander : And while you're off with your fanatics, Gareth and I are looking after your daughter. Seems to me liberation just means getting someone else to do your job for you.

  Sally Alexander : So you think it's all right do you that one half of the world has all of the power and the other half just has to lump it?

  Evelyn Alexander : Oh don't be so melodramatic.

  Sally Alexander : Don't be so blind. You couldn't even get a bank account without dad's permission. The doctor wouldn't give you birth control.

  Evelyn Alexander : That was one bank manager and one doctor.

  Sally Alexander : Just because you swallowed it, doesn't mean I have to.

• [after security is increased] 

  Jo Robinson : Oh I see. It's all got a bit too risky now, has it? A bit too much like the real thing?

  Sally Alexander : I-I came to warn you, but seeing as you already know...

  Jo Robinson : Well don't worry. Go and bugger off home. Leave it to us to make sure your daughter doesn't have to grow up in the same shitty world we did. Just remember, right, you get the world you deserve and if you don't fight you deserve the world you fucking get.

• Jo Robinson : Are you all right?

  Sally Alexander : Yes, I'm fine.

  Jo Robinson : Well there's obviously something wrong. Why don't you just say.

  Sally Alexander : It turns out my seat at the table is actually a high chair.

  Jo Robinson : What? And you're surprised?

• Evelyn Alexander : All this whining and complaining about the patriarchy. Other girls are perfectly happy as they are.

  Sally Alexander : Well I'm not a girl, I'm a woman.

• Abi : [Watching announcement of upcoming Miss World pageant on television, Abi grabs a quilt and starts parading around like she's Miss World]  I'm Miss World lady.

  Evelyn Alexander : You look beautiful, darling.

  Sally Alexander : Mum. Don't.

  Evelyn Alexander : You and your sisters used to love playing Miss World.

  Evelyn Alexander : We'd used to like to eat our own snot.

• Sally Alexander : [at the university interview]  I would never be late for lectures or miss deadlines. I would be mature. I would be a mature mature student.

• Sally Alexander : Of course I didn't want to be you. Nobody should have to be you, that's the point.