Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Barry Humphries: Mrs. Crummles, Mr. Leadville

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Crummles : The Iamps are Iit! Your public awaits! Let us use our bodies as instruments, and quiver together, until music comes out.

• Nicholas : [on why he must leave the theatre troupe]  Tis a family drama.

  Mrs. Crummles : Those are always popular.

• Mr. Crummles : Ladies and gentlemen, based on the receipts Mrs. Crummles has shown me, Liverpool has little relish for high-minded theatrical entertainments properly conducted. We must give them our pity. Now, we must give them something they will pay to see. 'Romeo and Juliet.'

  Mrs. Crummles : But we have no Romeo. Mr. Leadville's leg is broke.

  Mr. Leadville : I don't mind! I can manage!

  [Winces] 

  Mr. Crummles : Old friend, it may be time for you to move on from Romeo.

  Mr. Leadville : Move on?

  [Winces Again] 

  Mr. Leadville : To what?

  Mrs. Crummles : [aside]  Lear?

• Mrs. Crummles : We were just about to rehearse the climax of our drama. Will you watch with us - and feel with us?

• Mrs. Crummles : It is of the utmost that I speak to you about a great struggle which is taking place outside this mortal temple we call the theater. The contestants are those aged combatants: art - and commerce. And art, it would appear from the receipts, is in its usual position of jeopardy.

• Mrs. Crummles : Remember, Mr. Folair, you are a savage - not a demented fairy!