The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

Donal Donnelly: Tom

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Quotes 

• Tolen : [suspicious]  Are you a homosexual?

  Tom : No. Thanks all the same.

• Tom : What's the most frightening building in London?

  Colin : Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

  Tom : I believe you're right.

  Nancy Jones : What's that?

  Colin : Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

  Nancy Jones : That's nice. That's true. That's a nice thing to say.

• Colin : At 13, were you promiscuous?

  Tom : We're all of us, more or less, sexual failures.

  Colin : Well, Tolen isn't a sexual failure.

  Tom : Well, he needed 5 hours a day, he says.

  Colin : Well then he can't be a sexual failure, can he? He can't be a sexual failure? Well, he can't be a sexual failure having it 5 hours a day, can he?

• Colin : Starkers!

  Tom : Never.

  Colin : Bare buff!

  Tom : Let me see!

• [of Tolen's "rough play" with women] 

  Tom : Just think of what you could do with a real whip, Tolen. A real whip.

• Tom : In Walt Disney's early films, there were cows and the censors cut the udders out. Yeah. So, he - so, he put brassieres on 'em. Imagine. Well, Jersey cows wear brassieres, it's true. Jersey cows wear brassieres - there's something wrong there, you know. Cows shouldn't need brassieres. Human beings need 'em; because, they stand upright. They used to go on all fours and they hung downwards - vertically. But, now they stand upright and it puts on a terrible strain.

  [Nancy giggles] 

  Tom : Alright. Alright, but, it's true.

• Tom : As you know, any organ not in constant use atrophies. So, the jaw began to shrivel and shrivel and - and so, drop off. Not that you need worry about anything like that.

• Colin : I haven't got the knack to make a girl lie on her back in the rain.

  Tom : It's not raining.

• Tolen : He's a sexual incompetent!

  Nancy Jones : What's that?

  Tom : Not good at it.

  Nancy Jones : No good? Get on. He's marvelous. He raped me.