Stacy, Drake House Leader:
And always remember, they've got the whip hand.
Colin Smith: Do you know what I'd do if I had the whip hand? I'd get all the coppers, governers, posh whores, army officers and members of parliament and I'd stick them up against this wall and let them have it 'cause that's what they'd like to do to blokes like us.
Stacy, Drake House Leader: You'll learn.
Colin Smith: We'll see.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: Do you know what I'd do if I had the whip hand? I'd get all the coppers, governers, posh whores, army officers and members of parliament and I'd stick them up against this wall and let them have it 'cause that's what they'd like to do to blokes like us.
Stacy, Drake House Leader: You'll learn.
Colin Smith: We'll see.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith:
It's not that I don't like work. It's just that I don't like the idea of slaving me guts out so the bosses can get all the profits. Seems all wrong to me.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith:
Running's always been a big thing in our family, especially running away from the police.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith:
The best thing to do is be cunning and stay where you are. I'm going to let them think they've got me house trained, but they never will, the bastards. To get me beat, they'll have to stick a rope around my neck.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Gatiss:
[to Caroline about Eberlin] I do believe you two would have gone on well together. You haven't got a past, and he hasn't got a future. None at all.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in A Dandy in Aspic
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in A Dandy in Aspic
Pasha:
They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations.
--Tom Courtenay (as Pasha) in Doctor Zhivago
--Tom Courtenay (as Pasha) in Doctor Zhivago
Mike:
Where d'you learn to drive like this?
Colin Smith: Me cousin had a milk round.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: Me cousin had a milk round.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Brown, House Master:
Just describe the action to me in your own words, put me in the picture.
Colin Smith: Got over the wall of this baker's yard, broke into his office.
Brown, House Master: Hmm, I think you can do a bit better than this, Smith, um, surely your nerves were on edge weren't they, you felt afraid?
Colin Smith: If I felt afraid I wouldn't have broken in, would I?
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: Got over the wall of this baker's yard, broke into his office.
Brown, House Master: Hmm, I think you can do a bit better than this, Smith, um, surely your nerves were on edge weren't they, you felt afraid?
Colin Smith: If I felt afraid I wouldn't have broken in, would I?
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Brown, House Master:
Now when you broke into this, um, what was it...
Colin Smith: Bakery
Brown, House Master: Bakery, yup... what were you thinking about at the time?
Colin Smith: I wasn't thinking about anything, I was too busy breaking in.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: Bakery
Brown, House Master: Bakery, yup... what were you thinking about at the time?
Colin Smith: I wasn't thinking about anything, I was too busy breaking in.
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Brown, House Master:
So, uh, how do you come to be here?
Colin Smith: [puzzled] I got sent, didn't I?
Brown, House Master: [chuckles] Yes, I know you got sent, but why?
Colin Smith: I got caught. Didn't run fast enough!
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Colin Smith: [puzzled] I got sent, didn't I?
Brown, House Master: [chuckles] Yes, I know you got sent, but why?
Colin Smith: I got caught. Didn't run fast enough!
--Tom Courtenay (as ) in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
