Billy Liar (1963)

Mona Washbourne: Alice Fisher

Quotes 

• Alice Fisher : If you're in any more trouble, Billy, it's not something you can leave behind you, you know. You put it in your suitcase, and you take it with you.

• Billy Fisher : You want to tell whoever saw me to mind their own fizzing business.

  Alice Fisher : It is our business, and don't you be so cheeky.

• Billy Fisher : Boon, Danny Boon, the television comedian. He's in town today opening the new supermarkets. I sent him some of me scripts. He's read 'em. He's read 'em and he likes 'em. Sent me this letter. Look. He's offered me a job in London. Scriptwriting. He likes my material.

  Alice Fisher : How do you mean, he likes your material?

• Alice Fisher : You'll have to stop making things up, Billy. There's no sense in it at your age. We never know where we are with you. I mean, you're too old for things like that now. I don't know what we're going to do with you.

• Alice Fisher : You've never done that sort of thing before. You can't switch and change and swap about just when you feel like it.

• Alice Fisher : You're idle and scruffy and you have no manners.

  Billy Fisher : What are manners?

• Geoffrey Fisher : Ever since you started work. Grumbling about this. Grumbling about that. If it isn't his boiled egg, it's something else. So what do you do? Buy him special corn flakes.

  Alice Fisher : What if I do?

  Geoffrey Fisher : And why? Because of the bloody plastic submarine in the packet!

• Alice Fisher : We can't all be Shakespeares, can we?