Bill Maguire:
[Maguire is on the phone to the editor after a pile of letters about nuclear tests is dumped on his desk] What am I supposed to do with these protest letters?
[pause]
Bill Maguire: Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
[pause]
Bill Maguire: Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Bill Maguire:
[reading a newswire] There's a chap in Leeds says he can extract water from the atmosphere. Oh, as you were, he's been certified.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Bill Maguire:
No woman's irreplaceable, no matter how much you love her. There will be somebody else sooner or later. London's full of somebody else's.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Bill Maguire:
They've shifted the tilt of the earth. The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bastards! They've finally done it.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Clang:
Take this hastily scribbled note, hastily to acting Lance Corporal Bhuta. Off!
--Leo McKern (as Clang) in Help!
--Leo McKern (as Clang) in Help!
Cromwell:
I know a man who wants to change his woman.
--Leo McKern (as Cromwell) in A Man for All Seasons
--Leo McKern (as Cromwell) in A Man for All Seasons
[Bill asks Peter what is bothering him]
Bill Maguire: It's the kid, isn't it?
Peter Stenning: You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.
Bill Maguire: Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Bill Maguire: It's the kid, isn't it?
Peter Stenning: You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son.
Bill Maguire: Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out.
--Leo McKern (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire
[Hypnotism attempt over the phone from a public phone box]
Clang: Go to the window .
John: Hey! It's them!
[the Beatles block their ears]
Clang: Go to the window, Go to the window, Go to the window, Go to the window.
--Leo McKern (as Clang) in Help!
Clang: Go to the window .
John: Hey! It's them!
[the Beatles block their ears]
Clang: Go to the window, Go to the window, Go to the window, Go to the window.
--Leo McKern (as Clang) in Help!
