Billy Liar (1963)

Julie Christie: Liz

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• Billy Fisher : Where have you been?

  Liz : Here and there.

  Billy Fisher : Up and down.

  Liz : Round and about.

• Liz : Why don't you go to London? I'll come with you.

  Billy Fisher : Oh, it'd be marvelous if we could.

  Liz : But we can, Billy. We can! What's there to stop us?

  Billy Fisher : Well, I mean, there are all sorts of arrangements to make.

  Liz : No, there's not. You just buy a ticket. You buy a ticket and get on a train. That's all you have to do.

  Billy Fisher : You can't just go.

  Liz : Yes, you can! We could go tonight! There's a midnight train. It gets into London at seven o'clock.

• Liz : Sometimes I want to go away. It's not you, Billy. It's this town. It's the people we know. I don't like knowing everybody, becoming a part of things. Don't you know what I mean?

  Billy Fisher : Yes, I do, Liz. I do.

  Liz : What I'd like to be is invisible. I'd like to be able to move around without having to explain anything.

• Billy Fisher : Liz, do you find life difficult? Oh, I wish it was something you could tear up and start again. You know, like starting a new page in an exercise book.

  Liz : It's been done. Turning over a new leaf.

  Billy Fisher : I turn over a new leaf every day, but the blots show through.