Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Trevor Howard: Father Collins
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Quotes
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Father Collins : Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. Because if you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.
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Father Collins : I don't know what's the matter with youngsters in this town. Their talk is filthy, their doings are secret, and cruelty for fun.
Thomas Ryan : Unemployment is the matter with them, Father Hugh. It's the deliberate policy for the British government that Irish youngsters shall corrupt in idleness.
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Mr. McCardle : [Collins strikes McCardle after the mob strips Rosy] You're taking advantage of your cloth, Father!
Father Collins : That's what it's for.
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Rosy Ryan : It will make me a different person, won't it?
Father Collins : Marriage?
Rosy Ryan : No, the satisfaction of the flesh.
Father Collins : Well, that's a gate I've not been through, myself. But, no, it won't make you a different person.
Rosy Ryan : I want it to.
Father Collins : Child, what are you expecting?
[Look up at noisy seagulls flying above]
Father Collins : Wings, is it?
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Father Collins : [Explaining why God ordains the sacrament of marriage] And thirdly, for the satisfaction of the flesh. Are you scared of that?
Rosy Ryan : Yes.
Father Collins : It should be nothing to be scared of Rosy. A function of the body.
Rosy Ryan : I suppose all girls is a bit scared before.
Father Collins : Oh, and fellas too.
Rosy Ryan : Yes?
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Father Collins : It's time you married Rosy. It's time she got a house of her own to clean, floors to scrub.
Thomas Ryan : My princess isn't interested in fellows, Father.
Father Collins : Your "princess" has got fellows enough in here
[taps head]
Father Collins : And fellas running loose in there will do a girl more damage than a barracks full of drunk dragoons.
Thomas Ryan : Well, if it's one of that lot that's fit for her, Father, maybe you'll point him out!
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Father Collins : Good luck to all Irishmen.
Thomas Ryan : Bad luck to the British. Success to the Germans! And -
[British soldiers enter the bar]
Thomas Ryan : And a very good morning to you, Corporal!
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Father Collins : [having encountered Rosy walking alone on the beach] Have you nothin' to do?
Rosy Ryan : Precisely that!
Father Collins : Well, Miss Precisely, that's a pity! Doin' nothin's a dangerous occupation!
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Father Collins : [Collins has come across the townspeople tormenting Michael] What am I to do with you? What?
Maureen : Ah, sure it's only a bit of fun, Father.
Father Collins : Are you brainless, Maureen Cassidy, or what? Fun. Devil take me if the lot of you's not possessed and damned!
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[last lines]
Father Collins : Charles? I think you have it in your mind that you and Rosy ought to part. Yeh, I thought as much. Well, maybe you're right and maybe you aren't but I doubt it. And that's my parting gift to you. That doubt.
Father Collins : [closes bus door] God bless.
[bus drives away]
Father Collins : I don't know. I don't know at all. Come on, Michael.
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Father Collins : What do you do, Rose, moonin' about all day by yourself?
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Father Collins : Where have you been?
Rosy Ryan : Ridin' - with Major Doryan.
Father Collins : You're bold as brass! You think that's a suitable connection for a decent Irish wife?
Rosy Ryan : I think that is for my - husband to say, Father.
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Father Collins : What more are you wanting now?
Rosy Ryan : I don't know that, either.
Father Collins : That's a lie.
Rosy Ryan : It's not. How can I know? I don't even know what more there is.
Father Collins : You've got a good man now, haven't you?
Rosy Ryan : The best.
Father Collins : Well? And you've got enough money. Not much, but enough.
Rosy Ryan : Aye.
Father Collins : And you've got your health. You're not sick?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Father Collins : Well, there is nothing more, you graceless girl.
Rosy Ryan : But, there is.
Father Collins : There is not.
Rosy Ryan : I know there is. There must be, Father Hugh.
Father Collins : Why? Glory be to God, why must there be? Because Rosy Ryan wants it?
Rosy Ryan : Aye.
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Father Collins : Have you nothing to say to me?
Rosy Ryan : What should I have to say to you?
Father Collins : You could say: 'Father Hugh, there's nothing between me and Major Doryan.'
Rosy Ryan : There isn't.
Father Collins : Say it, then.
Rosy Ryan : There is nothing between me and Major Doryan.
Father Collins : Look at me, Rosy. Oh, child, what a face. Rose, tell me now.
Rosy Ryan : What?
Father Collins : You'll have to tell it in confessional, you little fool.
Rosy Ryan : I don't have to come... to the confessional.
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Thomas Ryan : Will you imagine that fellow? A fortnight in Dublin. Does nothing, sees nothing.
Mr. McCardle : It's working with children, makes a man childish.
Thomas Ryan : No, it was that wife of his, knocked all the spirit out of him.
Father Collins : She was a good, pure woman.
Thomas Ryan : Pure, she was.
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Father Collins : I have a parting gift for you here, Rose. It's supposed to be a fragment of St. Patrick's staff. I don't suppose it is, though.
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Father Collins : Now, what exactly is the trouble between you and Charles?
Rosy Ryan : No. No trouble.
Father Collins : Are you asking me to believe you're happy?
Rosy Ryan : I'm not asking you anything.
Father Collins : Are you happy?
Rosy Ryan : No.
Father Collins : Why not?
Rosy Ryan : I don't know.
Father Collins : Come on, Rosy, now give me a try.
Rosy Ryan : I don't. All right. Because I am stupid and conceited... and self-centered and ungrateful like you've always told me. For I have everything I wanted, have I not?
Father Collins : You have!