Patrick Melrose (TV Mini Series)

Mother's Milk (2018)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Patrick Melrose

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• Patrick Melrose : What do I loathe, then? I loathe the poison dripping down from generation to generation. And I'd rather die than inflict the same thing on our children.

• Patrick Melrose : In a beauty contest between her family and a complete stranger, my mother chose the stranger.

• Patrick Melrose : I suppose I should be more careful.

  Julia : About what?

  Patrick Melrose : I've tried so hard not to pass on the malice and resentment, giving them a different sort of childhood. But they're just fresh mistakes.

• Patrick Melrose : If I didn't have my mother's protection, at least I had the protection of this place. Now that's being taken away too, I fear I might go mad. At the same time, part of me can't wait to get rid of the fucking place.

• Patrick Melrose : I don't suppose you'd like a drink before dinner?

  Nancy : Oh I don't drink, didn't you know? I watched it destroy Daddy's life. But you help yourself.

• Nancy : Have you ever heard the phrase children should be seen not heard?

  Mary : Yes. I think it's nonsense.

  Nancy : Well for my part, I've always found it to be entirely too liberal.

  Mary : So you'd rather not see Thomas?

  Patrick Melrose : Jesus Christ, Nancy you sound like my father.

  Nancy : Patrick, we're trying to extend some hospitality.

  Patrick Melrose : [in a southern American accent]  And we're just poor white trash throwin' ourselves on the American kin.

  Cousin Henry : You don't have to be accepted if you don't want to.

  Patrick Melrose : You're right. We don't.

  Mary : But we'd like to.

  Patrick Melrose : Speak for yourself.

  Mary : I do. I'm also trying to speak for our children.

  Patrick Melrose : You're not even speaking for yourself!

  Patrick Melrose : [to Nancy]  Entirely too liberal? Come on! Fuck off!

• Patrick Melrose : Which of our mothers is the worst do you think? I realize the disinheritance thing gives Eleanor the edge, but yours is really putting in the work.

• Lucy : [after naming off dangerous things that aren't around]  Best to assume you're always in danger.

  Patrick Melrose : A rule to live by.

• Patrick Melrose : Christ I hate the rich!

  Mary Melrose : Especially now that you're not going to become one.

  Patrick Melrose : Especially now.

• Mary : I feel no affection for you at all when you're like this.

  Patrick Melrose : And the rest of the time?

  Mary : The rest of the time? I should tell you that I've been considering living my life without you. Any kind of love or patience, it's all dried up. It's not just the drinking. It's this demeaning thing with Julia. Demeaning to you as much as it is to me. All this mindless destruction, it's the way the children are involved. That thing Nancy said tonight about watching it destroy her father's life? Well that's what Robert witnessed. And yet you don't stop. If you can't change, you'll have to go.