Made in Dagenham (2010)

Rosamund Pike: Lisa Hopkins

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Quotes 

• Rita O'Grady : Look, I know you're not mentioning it because you're being polite and everything, but when we met in the corridor, well I was really upset, and I never usually use that type of language.

  Lisa Hopkins : Don't you?

  Rita O'Grady : No.

  Lisa Hopkins : Well I called Mr Clarke a complete cock.

• Lisa Hopkins : I'm Lisa Burnett, I'm 31 years old and I have a first class honours degree from one of the finest universities in the world, and my husband treats me like I'm a fool.

• [Peter Hopkins is entertaining Ford boss Robert Tooley at home. He clearly regards Lisa as a wife whose only purpose is to look pretty and to be a cook, but Robert sounds out her opinions] 

  Robert Tooley : Lisa. Do you mind if I call you Lisa? You must have quite a head on your shoulders. Peter tells me that you read history at Cambridge.

  Lisa Hopkins : [nervously]  Yes I did.

  Robert Tooley : Mind if I ask: what do you think of our little problem over at the factory? Do you think maybe he's a bit too much velvet glove, not enough iron fist?

  Lisa Hopkins : Not at all, no. Quite the opposite, actually. Look at Vauxhall. *They* don't have any problems with the unions. And that seems to be because General Motors have a more collaborative approach to management. Whereas at Ford you only deal with the unions because you *have* to. You tolerate them. And as a result they're more entrenched and they're aggressive in their dealings with you.

  [Robert and Peter look speechless] 

  Robert Tooley : [patronisingly]  Well that's a very *progressive* point of view.