Hampstead (2017)

Brendan Gleeson: Donald Horner

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Quotes 

• Emily Walters : Are you judging me?

  Donald Horner : Well, I'm trying to, but you're not giving me much to work on.

• Donald Horner : Do you think my mother bore a complete halfwit?

  Emily Walters : Is there such a thing as a complete halfwit?

• Donald Horner : If people want to stay attached to their radioactive walkie-talkies it's their business. Do I like what they're doing? No. Do I like them? Probably not. Do I respect their right to do as their little shallow hearts desire? I most certainly do. So, no, I don't care.

• Donald Horner : So am I different to what you expected?

  Emily Walters : [Hesitates and takes a drink]  Hmm. Perhaps. You seem...

  Donald Horner : Go on.

  Emily Walters : Cleaner.

  Donald Horner : That's honest.

• Emily Walters : It's always a lot of fun to be told one is just blindly stumbling their way through life.

  Donald Horner : Well, you know, stumbling has its benefits. You stumbled my way, after all.

• Donald Horner : What am I, your cause of the month now? Couldn't get anywhere with global warming, no?

• Mark Kasdan : Mr Horner, I'm Mark Kasdan from the Hampstead and Highgate Express. If you have a moment...

  Donald Horner : Do you think I'm just made of moments that I can pass around like Communion wafers?

• David : Well, you have certainly captured your public's imagination.

  Donald Horner : They can have it back if I can keep my home.

• Donald Horner : Better a madman than a slave.

• Steve Crowley : Can you please say what Mr. Horner did next?

  Leon Rowlands : He wrapped the notice around a parsnip and handed it back to me.

  Steve Crowley : And did you accept it?

  Donald Horner : May I object?

  Leon Rowlands : I did not accept that parsnip.

  Donald Horner : No, it was a carrot.

• Donald Horner : Miss Emily, I'm forever in your debt.

• Donald Horner : [James Smythe threatens him with a ukulele]  What are you gonna do? Strum me to death?

• Donald Horner : Do you drink too much all the time?

  Emily Walters : No. Only when I drink.

• Emily Walters : I got stuck in traffic.

  Donald Horner : You live across the street.

  Emily Walters : Yeah, that's how bad it was.

• Emily Walters : What are you doing up here?

  Donald Horner : Observing the natives.

• Donald Horner : Do you drink too much all the time?

  Emily Walters : No, only when I drink.

• Donald Horner : I could almost accept that if you hadn't seemed quite so humiliated up there.

  Emily Walters : I was humiliated. I was humiliated about myself and that's the truth.