Educating Rita Movie Quotes
[Rita is being nosy about Frank's marriage]
Dr. Frank Bryant
We split up, Rita, because of poetry.
Rita
You what?
Dr. Frank Bryant
One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.
Rita
Are you a poet?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.
Rita
What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?
Dr. Frank Bryant
No. I stopped writing altogether.
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Rita
I did join in the singing. But when I turned around, me mother had stopped singin', and she was cryin'. I said, 'Why are you cryin', Mother?' And she said, 'There must be better songs to sing than this.' And I thought, yeah - that's what I'm trying to do, isn't it? Sing a better song.
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Dr. Frank Bryant
Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!
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Dr. Frank Bryant
Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a *different* song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.
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Denny
Fellows in our family only have to look at a woman and she's pregnant.
Rita
Oh, must be because you're all cockeyed.
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[Trish has just tried to kill herself; Rita goes to visit her in hospital]
Rita
Why?
Trish
Darling, why not?
Rita
Oh, Trish, don't. Come on, it's all right, don't cry. You're still here.
Trish
That's why I'm crying - it didn't work. It didn't bloody work.
Rita
Trish. Look, you didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just...
Trish
Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?
Rita
Trish, you have.
Trish
Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.
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[first words to Rita as she opens the door of her flat]
Trish
Wouldn't you just *die* without Mahler?
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Rita's Father
Say, Denny. Denny, I'm sorry for you, lad. If she was a wife of mine I'd drown her.
Rita
If I was a wife of yours I'd drown meself.
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Rita's Father
How old are you now, Susan?
Rita's Father
You're not, you're twenty-seven! Been married six years and you still haven't got a baby to show for it. Here's your sister, only two minutes married, and she's already four months pregnant.
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Dr. Frank Bryant
In reply to the question "Suggest how you would resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt", you have written, quote: "Do it on the radio." Unquote.
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Rita
Do you think you did nothing for me? You think I just ended up with a load of quotes and empty phrases. Well, all right, I did. But that wasn't your doing. I was too hungry for it all. I didn't question anything. I wanted it all too much, so I wouldn't let it be questioned. Told you that I was stupid.
Dr. Frank Bryant
You're not stupid.
Rita
Listen, if I say I'm stupid, then I'm stupid, okay? So don't argue!
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Dr. Frank Bryant
What does it say?
Rita
Right. I've passed. Now will you get on that bloody plane?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Let me see. You've passed with distinction. I'm proud of you, Rita.
Rita
I'm proud of both of us.
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Rita
I just... wanted to tell someone who'd understand.
Dr. Frank Bryant
Rita, I am honored that you chose me.
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[Rita discovers Frank packing all his books into crates]
Rita
Have they sacked you?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Not quite.
Rita
Oh... Why are you packing your books up?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Well, I made rather a night of it last night, so they're, uh... they're giving me a holiday. Two years in Australia.
Rita
Did you bugger the Bursar?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Metaphorically.
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Brian
Yes, well, apparently you were a little... drunk at your tutorial today.
Dr. Frank Bryant
No.
Brian
No?
Dr. Frank Bryant
No. I was a lot drunk.
Brian
Oh, Frank, why do you do it? When you've got... well, what haven't you got?
Dr. Frank Bryant
A drink at the moment.
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[last lines]
[Rita is saying goodbye to Frank at the airport departure gate]
Rita
Frank.
Dr. Frank Bryant
What?
Rita
Thanks.
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[Frank has just been officially reprimanded for being drunk while giving a lecture]
Dr. Frank Bryant
Sod them, eh, Rita! Sod them!
Rita
Will they sack you?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Good God no. That would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it would have to be rape on a grand scale. And not just with students, either. That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. No, for dismissal it would have to be nothing less than buggering the Bursar.
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Dr. Frank Bryant
Morgan? Fuck off!
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Customer in Hairdressers
Was that a book you're reading?
Rita
Yeah, yeah.
Customer in Hairdressers
What's it called?
Rita
Oh, "Of Human Bondage".
Customer in Hairdressers
Yeah? My husband's got a lot of books like that.
Rita
What, Somerset Maugham books?
Customer in Hairdressers
Nooo. Bondage books!
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Rita
I'm beginning to find me. It's great.
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Collins
Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me.
Dr. Frank Bryant
Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me.
Collins
Doctor, are you drunk?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober.
Collins
[angrily bundling his books together]
Then you won't mind if I leave your tutorial.
Dr. Frank Bryant
Why should I mind?
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Rita
Christ! Me customer! She's still under the dryer. She only wanted a demi-wave, she'll come out lookin' like a friggin' muppet!
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Rita
It's fun, tragedy, isn't it?
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Dr. Frank Bryant
You really can't bear to spend a moment with me now, can you?
Rita
Frank, that is not true. It's just that tonight, I've got to go to the theatre.
Dr. Frank Bryant
As I was saying, if you want to stop coming...
Rita
Oh, for Christ's sake, Frank, I don't want to stop comin'! I've got to keep comin'. What about me exam?
Dr. Frank Bryant
Oh, I shouldn't worry about that. You'd, uh, sail through it anyway. You really don't have to put in the odd appearance out of sentimentality. I'd rather you spared me that.
[he downs a glass of whiskey]
Rita
If you could stop pouring that junk down your throat, in the hope that it'll make you feel like a poet, you might be able to talk about things that matter, instead of where I do and don't work. And it might actually be worth turnin' up.
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Rita
I'm beginning to find me. It's great. It is, you know, Frank. It might sound selfish, but all I want for the time being is what I'm finding inside me.
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