Career Girls (1997)

Mark Benton: Richard 'Ricky' Burton

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Quotes 

• Annie : [Playing the "Wuthering Heights" game with Rickie]  You have a go.

  [Takes back the book] 

  Ricky : Uh... Miss Bronte, uh...

  Annie : MS. Bronte, MS. Bronte! Ms., you know, like Multiple Sclerosis.

  Ricky : Uh, Miss Bronte, uh, will I...

  [pauses] 

  Annie : Will you what?

  Ricky : Uh, uh, uh, uh, get a fuck?

  Annie : Oh, right. Same question. Okay.

  [Closes her eyes, twirls her fingers and opens book to a random page] 

  Annie : Let's see. Uh, Ricky? It's a blank page. Sorry.

  Ricky : Oh, uh, there's nothing in the rules or...?

  Annie : Oh, fuck, it obviously doesn't work when your pissed.

• Ricky : I'm not an idiot. I'm like an idiot savant, I just haven't found my savant yet.

• Annie : Ms. Brontë, Ms. Brontë, will I have a fuck soon?

  Ricky : Well, uh, uh..

  Annie : Go on. Close your eyes.

  Ricky : Uh, uh, it says "death."

  Annie : Oh, great. Bloody great.

  Ricky : That's, uh, symbolic.

  Annie : It symbolizes the bloody death of my sex life!

• Ricky : It's like coming forward.

  Hannah : Well, it's better than being backward.

• Ricky : You're very aggressive.

  Hannah : So?

  Ricky : That might come from insecurity.

  Hannah : Well, we're all insecure.

• Ricky : Why?

  Annie : Time. Just time.

  Ricky : Just goes.

  Annie : Yeah. It does, yeah.

  Ricky : Ticking.

  Annie : Passin' us by.

  Ricky : Empty. Fuckin' empty.