Liz Smith credited as playing...
Norma Speakman • Nana
- Norma Speakman: May God forgive you, Jim Royle, for talking ill of the dead like that.
- Jim Royle: I wasn't speaking ill of the dead, I was speaking about you, the living bloody dead!
- Norma Speakman: Would you like a sandwich, love?
- Dave Best: No thanks, Nana.
- Norma Speakman: There's no Picalilly left in this jar.
- Jim Royle: You're joking. Do you think we can continue with the celebrations in the face of that revelation?
- Norma Speakman: Where's your best man, Barry, innit?
- Dave Best: No, Gary. He's got to work, he can't get the morning off, he's coming straight from the butcher's.
- Jim Royle: It's all we want, innit, the church stinking of bloody mince.
- Twiggy: Ey, you know what'll happen, don't ya, he'll put his hand in his pocket for the ring and pull out a pork chop.
- Norma Speakman: I never drink, me, just a sherry at Christmas, whiskey at New Year, and a bottle of stout.
- Norma Speakman: [after Dave agrees to take her home] Oh, you're a good'n. I'll leave you something nice in my will.
- Dave Best: Hey--why wait till then? There'll be plenty of room in the back of the van when you get out--I've had my eye on that clock of yours.
- Norma Speakman: Ha, ha--you cheeky begger. Hugh Scully'd give us a few bob for that.
- Denise Royle: Will you stop talking about Nana dying?
- Jim Royle: Yeah! Have a little bit of respect--wait till she's gone out of the door.
- [laughs]
- Jim Royle: Oh, I'm only joking, Norma--bloody hell, it'll be a sad day in this house when you snuff it... if we don't get that clock.
- Barbara Royle: Oh--he hasn't got a heart, Mam--he's got a swinging brick.
- Norma Speakman: [talking about Dave and Denise's honeymoon] So, where is it you're going again?
- Denise Royle: Tenerife.
- Norma Speakman: Ooh, that'll be gorgeous, won't it! Me and your grandad went to Blackpool for a week in a B&B. It's a Harry Ramsden's now, which is quite fitting as we met in a fish shop, It was after the town hall dance, I went there with my friend Betty.
- Barbara Royle: Oh, Betty.
- Barbara Royle: She married a joiner, moved to Leeds, he knocked her about a bit, but her home was lovely.
- Mary Carroll: Do you ever hear from her, Norma?
- Norma Speakman: No, I never liked her even when we were best friends.
- Norma Speakman: Ey, I tell you who is in hospital, Gwen's husband.
- Barbara Royle: Ooh, what's he having done?
- Norma Speakman: He's having something fitted.
- Jim Royle: What--a wardrobe?
- Norma Speakman: [about her eye surgeon] D'ya know what he said, Barbara? He said, even though I'm taking the cataract out of your eye, I'm leaving the twinkle in.