Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)
Episode #2.1 (2013)
Derek Jacobi: Alan
Quotes
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Celia : I've got my new hat, so that's that bit covered. Something old, something new.
Alan : Well, summat old we've not got.
Celia : Well, we're both old.
Alan : Are we?
Celia : Well, you are, I'm not.
[Alan laughs]
Celia : I started counting backwards when I got to 36.
Alan : So, how old does that make you now, then?
Celia : Hmm. Minus three?
Alan : [laughing] Fancy!
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Celia : What's up?
Alan : [sighing] It's just a disappointment, isn't it? An ongoing disappointment.
Gillian : And for the record, he is not my brother-in-law, because A, you're not married yet and two, him and Caroline are getting divorced. Ipso facto, Q.E.D., not my brother-in-law.
Celia : I said not to say anything.
Alan : Aye, well I did.
Gillian : Can we all just get it into our little heads that I regret it and it won't happen again? Would you like that written down? In triplicate?
Alan : What for? Wouldn't mean owt.
Gillian : Dad, I'm going to get upset.
Alan : Well, what did you expect?
[to Celia]
Alan : She were pregnant when she were fifteen.
Gillian : Dad...
Alan : Broke Eileen's heart. Perhaps you didn't know that.