Quotes from Look Back in Anger (1959)

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Mary Ure
Jimmy Porter: What about you, do you want to come?
Alison Porter: I'm going out with Helena.
Alison Porter: That's not a direction, its an affliction.
- Mary Ure (as Alison Porter) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Claire Bloom
Jimmy Porter: What do you say we get out of this place and start from scratch, what do you say?
Helena Charles: I'd say that's wonderful.
Jimmy Porter: Come on, we'll do that. We'll get pleasantly tiddly, then I'll take you home and make such love to you as you'll forget about anything at all.
Helena Charles: Let's go and have a drink.
- Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Richard Burton
Jimmy Porter: What friend?
Alison Porter: Helena Charles, I meant to say, she telephoned, she's playing at the theatre next week.
Jimmy Porter: I see, she said 'can I come over' and you said 'My husband Jimmy, if you'll pardon my using such a dirty word, will be delighted to see you, he'll kick your teeth in'.
- Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Richard Burton
Jimmy Porter: Why do we spend half Sunday reading the newspapers?
- Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Gary Raymond
Jimmy Porter: You just sit there and do nothing.
Cliff Lewis: That's right, I just sit here.
Jimmy Porter: What sort of a man are you.
Cliff Lewis: I'm not the district commissioner you know.
- Gary Raymond (as Cliff Lewis) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Richard Burton
Jimmy Porter: You know mummy and I took a quick look at each other and from then on the age of chivalry was dead.
Cliff Lewis: Don't brawl boyo, it won't do any good.
Jimmy Porter: Why not, it's the only thing I'm good at.
- Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Gary Raymond
Cliff Lewis: 14lbs of jelly babies, what do you want to get all them for?
Jimmy Porter: Kids have got a craze on.
Cliff Lewis: They better have.
- Gary Raymond (as Cliff Lewis) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Gary Raymond
Cliff Lewis: Cheer up boyo. You look like a laxative commercial... before.
- Gary Raymond (as Cliff Lewis) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Gary Raymond
Cliff Lewis: Don't think I'll stay much longer.
Jimmy Porter: Why not?
Cliff Lewis: I don't know, sweet store's alright but I'd like to try something else. You're highly educated, it suits you, but I need something a bit better.
- Gary Raymond (as Cliff Lewis) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

Claire Bloom
Cliff Lewis: I love those two people very much and I pity all of us.
Helena Charles: I don't understand you or him or any of it.
- Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger (1959)

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