Secrets & Lies (1996)
Brenda Blethyn: Cynthia
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Quotes
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Cynthia : You gotta laugh, ain't ya sweetheart? Else you'd cry.
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Cynthia : But sweetheart, I can't be your mother!
Hortense Cumerbatch : Why not?
Cynthia : Well... look at me!
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Cynthia : [to Hortense] You look more like me than m'daughter does!
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Cynthia : I was stuck at home from the age of 10 looking after Maurice and your Granddad.
Roxanne : Yeah, we know.
Cynthia : Then I got saddled with you. That was my downfall, darling.
Roxanne : I didn't ask to be born.
Cynthia : No, and I never asked to have you neither.
Roxanne : Well, you should have thought about that before you dropped your knickers!
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Cynthia : He knows where I am if he wants me. He'd have had us up there to see it by now, I expect, if it weren't for her. Toffy-nosed cow.
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Cynthia : I'm known for my legs. If you've got it, flaunt it.
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Cynthia : Dad liked her, didn't he? Nice thighs.
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[repeated line]
Cynthia : Ta-da!
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Hortense Cumerbatch : D'you like Italian food?
Cynthia : Yeah. I eat anything, me. Chinese, kebabs, the lot!
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Hortense Cumerbatch : You can tell a lot about people from lookin' at their eyes.
Maurice : That's true.
Monica Purley : Can you?
Jane : Windows to your soul.
Cynthia : That's a nice way of puttin' it, Jane.
Jane : It's true though, ain't it.
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Monica Purley : Having a steak, are you, Cynthia?
Cynthia : Yes. Thank you, Monica.
Monica Purley : That'll put hairs on your chest.