Jake's Progress (1995)
Lindsay Duncan: Monica
Quotes
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Monica : Just before you die you'll have an affair.
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Monica : I hate bloody writers!
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Monica : You've been bang at it with the juvenile lead since the read-through!
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Monica : A two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe in a Space the size of a TOILET, and you think you're bloody *Chekov!*
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Monica : Who do you think I am? What do you think I do with my life? I'll tell you what I do, I work for a living, I teach a bunch of masturbators English Literature - who think A Room with a View is a Chalet at Butlins and that a Gingerman is a biscuit - and I feed and clothe my children. Ha! My children! Have you seen my children? Have you? And I put on plays in Town Halls that nobody comes to see. And I put on plays in Town Halls that nobody comes to see in the faint hope that I will meet someone who might find me desirable and give me a damn good seeing-to!
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Monica : And I read palms at parties because when I was young and impressionable I read a BOOK on how to read palms and impress people.
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Monica : I've told you, Elvis! Cut out the fatty food!
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Playwright : Where's the pause? That pause was my homage to Pinter!
Monica : You do know that this is an awful play you've written, don't you?
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Monica : Bloody writers! They should only be discovered after they're dead!
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Monica : [runs off crying into the night]
