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Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Stacy, Drake House Leader: And always remember, they've got the whip hand.
Colin Smith: Do you know what I'd do if I had the whip hand? I'd get all the coppers, governers, posh whores, army officers and members of parliament and I'd stick them up against this wall and let them have it 'cause that's what they'd like to do to blokes like us.
Stacy, Drake House Leader: You'll learn.
Colin Smith: We'll see.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Colin Smith: It's not that I don't like work. It's just that I don't like the idea of slaving me guts out so the bosses can get all the profits. Seems all wrong to me.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Colin Smith: Running's always been a big thing in our family, especially running away from the police.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Colin Smith: The best thing to do is be cunning and stay where you are. I'm going to let them think they've got me house trained, but they never will, the bastards. To get me beat, they'll have to stick a rope around my neck.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1968

Director:
Anthony Mann*Laurence Harvey

A Dandy in Aspic

Gatiss: [to Caroline about Eberlin] I do believe you two would have gone on well together. You haven't got a past, and he hasn't got a future. None at all.

-- Tom Courtenay in A Dandy in Aspic (1968)

Year: 1965

Director:
David Lean

Doctor Zhivago

Pasha: They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations.

-- Tom Courtenay (as Pasha) in Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Mike: Where d'you learn to drive like this?
Colin Smith: Me cousin had a milk round.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Brown, House Master: Just describe the action to me in your own words, put me in the picture.
Colin Smith: Got over the wall of this baker's yard, broke into his office.
Brown, House Master: Hmm, I think you can do a bit better than this, Smith, um, surely your nerves were on edge weren't they, you felt afraid?
Colin Smith: If I felt afraid I wouldn't have broken in, would I?

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Brown, House Master: Now when you broke into this, um, what was it...
Colin Smith: Bakery
Brown, House Master: Bakery, yup... what were you thinking about at the time?
Colin Smith: I wasn't thinking about anything, I was too busy breaking in.

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Year: 1962

Director:
Tony Richardson

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Brown, House Master: So, uh, how do you come to be here?
Colin Smith: [puzzled] I got sent, didn't I?
Brown, House Master: [chuckles] Yes, I know you got sent, but why?
Colin Smith: I got caught. Didn't run fast enough!

-- Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Film Quotes by Tom Courtenay