Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

Patti Nicholls: Sue's Mother

Quotes 

• Sue's Dad : [Sue comes in at 2pm; her Dad is sitting there with a baseball bat]  Where the fuck have you been?

  Sue : Baby sitting.

  Sue's Dad : Not just till 2 o'clock in the fuckin' morning you haven't, don't lie to me lass!

  Sue : I'm not, you ask me mum.

  Sue's Dad : Well yer mum's a lyin' bastard an all and I'll wrap this round ya fuckin' neck!

  [throws bat down] 

  Sue : [blows a huff]  Mum!

  Sue's Mum : What?

  Sue : Come and tell him!

  Sue's Dad : You're a lying little shit!

  Sue's Mum : Oh, I'm fucking fed up with him! What do you think yer fuckin' playing at?

  Sue's Dad : You try to tell me that she's been baby sitting till this fuckin' time?

  Sue's Mum : How do you know she hasn't?

  Sue's Dad : Cause' there's nowt open that's how!

  Sue : There is!

  Sue's Mum : Night Clubs.

  Sue's Dad : Well I don't fuckin' believe yer, next time I will wrap it round yer neck.

  Sue's Mum : Just be careful I don't bloody wrap it round yours!

  Sue's Dad : Anyway, why don't you fuck off back to bed?

  Sue's Mum : I'm sleeping in here, you're sleeping on yer bloody own.

  Sue's Dad : Do what yer like.

  Sue's Mum : I bloody will, don't worry!

  Sue's Dad : Fuck it, I'm going to bed.

  Sue : Oh go on.

  Sue : Aren't you going to bed?

  Sue's Mum : I'm not getting in with him!

• Sue : Its all your fault. If you'd had sex wi' him, he wouldn't have to go elsewhere.

  Sue's Mum : Keep you mouth shut!

  Michelle : Well, Is that you've been saying you dirty bastard?

• Sue : There's no way I'm workin' all week for twenty-seven pounds thirty on some bleedin' trainin' scheme.

  Sue's Dad : I had to work for eighteen shilling!

  Sue's Mum : That were in the days of Methusela! They were worth more then.

• Aslam : I can't help being a paki!

  Sue's Dad : Yes you fuckin' can. Shouldn't interfere.

  Sue's Mum : Nor should you! You're always tellin' folk what they should do; you haven't done it yourself!

  Sue's Dad : [trying to be dignified]  I've done some things...

  Sue's Mum : You've done nowt and you've been nowt all your life!

• Sue's Dad : You'll not get a bleedin' job sittin' on your arse in here.

  Sue's Mum : Look who's talking; you haven't done a day's work in years!

• Sue's Mother : [after Sue's drunken father staggers about the living room and falls into a chair]  Watch me bleedin' ornaments!