Jimmy Porter:
Going out, on a Sunday evening this time, where have you got to be?
Helena Charles: She's coming with me to church.
Jimmy Porter: You're doing what? When I think of what I did, what I had to endure!
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: She's coming with me to church.
Jimmy Porter: You're doing what? When I think of what I did, what I had to endure!
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
Hardly a moment when I'm not watching, wanting you. Nearly 2 years in the same room as you and I still can't stop my sweat breaking out when I see you do something as ordinary as cooking or leaning over the ironing board. Trouble is... you get used to people, even their trivialities become indispensable to you.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
Have you ever seen anybody die?
Helena Charles: No I haven't.
Jimmy Porter: For 12 months I watched my father die, I was 10. He'd come back from the war in Spain. All my mother could think was that she'd married someone who was always on the wrong side. Perhaps she pitied him but I was the only one who cared.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: No I haven't.
Jimmy Porter: For 12 months I watched my father die, I was 10. He'd come back from the war in Spain. All my mother could think was that she'd married someone who was always on the wrong side. Perhaps she pitied him but I was the only one who cared.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
I learned at an early age what it is to be angry. Angry. Helpless.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American age, apart from if you're an American of course.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
I want to be there when your face is rubbed in the mud. There's nothing else I can hope for any more, there's nothing else I want anymore.
Helena Charles: There's a call for you downstairs.
Jimmy Porter: Can't be anything good.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: There's a call for you downstairs.
Jimmy Porter: Can't be anything good.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
I'm getting hungry.
Cliff Lewis: You're a bloody pig.
Jimmy Porter: You're like a sex maniac only with you it's food - you'll end up in the News of the World, you wait - James Porter, 25, was bound over last night after pleading guilty to interfering with a small cabbage and a tin of beans. The accused said he hadn't been feeling well for some time and had been having blackouts.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Cliff Lewis: You're a bloody pig.
Jimmy Porter: You're like a sex maniac only with you it's food - you'll end up in the News of the World, you wait - James Porter, 25, was bound over last night after pleading guilty to interfering with a small cabbage and a tin of beans. The accused said he hadn't been feeling well for some time and had been having blackouts.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
If you slap me, by God I'll lay you out.
Helena Charles: You would, you're the type.
Jimmy Porter: You bet I'm the type, the type that hates physical violence.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: You would, you're the type.
Jimmy Porter: You bet I'm the type, the type that hates physical violence.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
Ladies and gentlemen, a little recitation entitled 'she was only a gravediggers daughter but she loved lying under the sod'.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
Look down your nose at her once more...
Alison Porter: I just couldn't bear to be touched.
Jimmy Porter: You made that perfectly plain.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
Alison Porter: I just couldn't bear to be touched.
Jimmy Porter: You made that perfectly plain.
--Richard Burton (as Jimmy Porter) in Look Back in Anger
