Lost in Austen (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2008)

Jemima Rooper: Amanda Price

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• Amanda Price : It is a truth generally acknowledged that we are all longing to escape. I escape always to my favourite book "Pride and Prejudice". I've read it so many times now the words just say themselves in my head and it's like a window opening, it's like I'm actually there. It's become a place I know so intimately I can see that world, I can touch it. I can see Darcy. Whoa Amanda.

  [closes book] 

  Amanda Price : Now where was I?

• Amanda Price : Never mind the Bingley, bring on the Darcy.

• Amanda Price : This place is a mess.

  Frankie : It's called "re-decorating". It's what women my age do when they get divorced. It's like sex, only you can stop any time you like for a cup of tea and a biscuit.

• Amanda Price : What's the deal here? Are we live on cable or something? Is this like the Jim Carrey thing, but period? Where are the cameras? Come on! What are you after, guys? A bit of girl-on-girl action under the covers? What do I have to do to get out of here? Snog her? Show you my pubes?

  Lydia Bennet : What have you done to yourself?

  Amanda Price : That's called a landing strip, Lydia. Standard pubic topiary.

• Mr. Bingley : Darcy regards all forms of sudden locomotion as emblematic of ill-breeding. Hunting, tennis, rising precipitately from a chair...

  Mr. Darcy : When Miss Price and I dance, sir, there shall be nothing sudden.

  Amanda Price : I can't dance this sort of dance.

  Mr. Darcy : Nor I. Together we shall make a shambles. But we shall do it with such authority that everyone will stare at us to learn the step.

• Amanda Price : I'm not hung up about Darcy. I do not sit at home with the pause button on Colin Firth in clingy pants, okay? I love the love story. I love Elizabeth. I love the manners and language and the courtesy. It's become part of who I am and what I want. I'm saying that I have standards.

  Frankie : Oh, you have standards, pet? I hope they help you on with your coat when you're 70.

• Amanda Price : Never mind the Bingley, bring on the Darcy!