Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
Timothy Spall: L S Lowry
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Quotes
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Elizabeth Lowry : Most people in Pendlebury are bone idle, that's their trouble.
L S Lowry : People can't help being poor. No shame in having nothing, is there?
Elizabeth Lowry : Of course there's shame. We are middle-class, Laurie.
L S Lowry : We lived above our means, mother. Father knew it. He tried to keep you happy.
Elizabeth Lowry : Happy? The day we married it rained. Misfortune poured upon me ever since.
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L S Lowry : Hope gets a lot of people through life, mother.
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Elizabeth Lowry : No, I'm never cheerful. I haven't felt cheerful since 1868, the year of my confirmation.
L S Lowry : That was a long time ago, mother.
Elizabeth Lowry : A lifetime.
L S Lowry : We're living in 1934.
Elizabeth Lowry : I'm aware of that.
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[First Lines]
L S Lowry : I paint what I see. I paint how I feel. I'm a man who paints. Nothing more, nothing less. Every picture I paint always begins the same way. It begins in the same colour. Underneath every picture is the colour white. Flake white.
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L S Lowry : You never liked any of my paintings, mother?
Elizabeth Lowry : No. I'm not the only one, am I?
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[Last Lines]
L S Lowry : I'm a man who paints, nothing more, nothing less.
