Archie Rice: [to unresponsive audience] Don't clap too loudly, it's a very old building.

- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)

Archie Rice: Look at these eyes. I'm dead - behind these eyes. I'm dead.

- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)

Archie Rice: Old Archie isn't going to get his oats after all.

- Laurence Olivier (as Archie Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)

Billy Rice: You were a pretty little thing. Not that looks are important - not even for a woman. You don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire.

- Roger Livesey (as Billy Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)

Frank Rice: Cheer up love, life isn't as bad as all that, and even if it is, there's nothing we can do about it.

- Alan Bates (as Frank Rice) in The Entertainer (1960)