Alice Krige credited as playing...
Sybil Gordon
- Sybil Gordon: Do you love running?
- Harold M. Abrahams: I'm more of an addict. It's a compulsion, a weapon.
- Sybil Gordon: Against what?
- Harold M. Abrahams: Being Jewish, I suppose.
- Sybil Gordon: [laughs incredulously] You're not serious!
- Harold M. Abrahams: You're not Jewish, or you wouldn't have had to ask.
- Sybil Gordon: Fiddlesticks. People don't care.
- Sybil Gordon: The great Harold Abrahams. My brother will be insanely jealous.
- Harold Abrahams: So will mine.
- Sybil Gordon: You don't look very ruthless.
- Harold Abrahams: Should I?
- Sybil Gordon: According to my brother. Tim says that's why you always win. Why running?
- Harold Abrahams: Why singing?
- Sybil Gordon: My job... No, that's silly. I do it because I love it.
- Sybil Gordon: Do you love running?
- Harold Abrahams: I'm more of an addict. It's a compulsion, a weapon.
- Sybil Gordon: Against what?
- Harold Abrahams: Being Jewish, I suppose.
- Sybil Gordon: [laughs] You're not serious?
- Harold Abrahams: You're not Jewish, or you wouldn't ask.
- Sybil Gordon: Fiddlesticks. People don't care. Anyway, being Jewish hasn't done you any harm.
- Harold Abrahams: I'm what I call semi-deprived.
- Sybil Gordon: That sounds clever... What does it mean?
- Harold Abrahams: It means they lead me to water, but they won't let me drink.
- Sybil Gordon: You're a funny old stick, Mr. Harold Abrahams. Funny...... but fascinating.
- Harold Abrahams: I'll settle for the fascinating.
- Sybil Gordon: Life isn't that gloomy, is it?
- Harold Abrahams: [quietly] Not tonight... You're so beautiful.
- Sybil Gordon: Like you.
- Sybil Gordon: If you can't take a beating, it's for the best.
- Harold M. Abrahams: I don't run to take beatings. I run to win.