Film Quotes by Leo McKern
13 quotes
Benter:
Stay away from...
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Leo McKern
in
The Mouse That Roared
(1959)
Bill Maguire:
[Maguire is on the phone to the editor after a pile of letters about nuclear tests is dumped on his desk] What am I supposed to do with these protest letters?
[pause]
Bill Maguire: Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them.
[pause]
Bill Maguire: Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them.
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Leo McKern
in
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Bill Maguire:
[reading a newswire] There's a chap in Leeds says he can extract water from the atmosphere. Oh, as you were, he's been certified.
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Leo McKern
in
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Bill Maguire:
No woman's irreplaceable, no matter how much you love her. There will be somebody else sooner or later. London's full of somebody else's.
--
Leo McKern
in
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Bill Maguire:
They've shifted the tilt of the earth. The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bastards! They've finally done it.
--
Leo McKern
in
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Clang:
Take this hastily scribbled note, hastily to acting Lance Corporal Bhuta. Off!
--
Leo McKern
(as Clang)
in
Help!
(1965)
Cromwell:
Are you coming my way, Rich?
--
Leo McKern
(as Cromwell)
in
A Man for All Seasons
(1966)
Cromwell:
I know a man who wants to change his woman.
--
Leo McKern
(as Cromwell)
in
A Man for All Seasons
(1966)
[Bill asks Peter what is bothering him]
Bill Maguire: It's the kid, isn't it?
Peter Stenning: You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.
Bill Maguire: Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.
Bill Maguire: It's the kid, isn't it?
Peter Stenning: You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.
Bill Maguire: Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.
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Leo McKern
in
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
(1961)