My Family and Other Animals (2005 TV Movie)

Imelda Staunton: Mother

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Larry Durrell : Why do we put up with this bloody climate? I mean, look at us: Gerry can't speak,

  Gerald Durrell : Uh?

  Larry Durrell : Lesley can't hear.

  Leslie Durrell : What?

  Larry Durrell : Margot's got a face like a plate of red porridge.

  Margot Durrell : Shut up.

  Larry Durrell : Mother's beginning to look like an Irish washerwoman.

  Mother : I am not.

  Larry Durrell : It's August. We need sunshine.

  Mother : Yes, dear.

  Larry Durrell : Now, I've got a friend lives in Greece - Corfu. Says it's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go?

  Mother : I can't just go like that. We have a house here.

  Larry Durrell : We'll sell up.

  Mother : Don't be ridiculous, Lawrence. Gerry needs an education.

  Gerald Durrell : No, I'll be fine.

  Mother : We can't just up and leave; that would be madness.

• Theodore Stephanides : Who was it who said, "If you can control your family, you've gone terribly wrong somewhere"?

  Mother : Aristotle?

  Theodore Stephanides : No.

  Mother : Was it me?

  Theodore Stephanides : Yes.

• Mother : What a rude man!

  Margot Durrell : What?

  [Mother passes her the page] 

  Margot Durrell : [reading]  "Description passengers: one travelling circus and staff!"

  Mother : Odd thing to write. Some people really are peculiar.