Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

Death of a Hollow Man (1998)

Nicholas Woodeson: Avery Phillips

Quotes 

• Avery Phillips : He hasn't always been gay. Me, I was making sequin jockstraps with Paddington when I was three.

• Kitty Carmichael : I can't believe it. Who would do such a dreadful thing? Everyone liked Esslyn.

  Avery Phillips : Well, obviously not quite everyone, darling.

• Avery Phillips : Well, I must say our emsemble's excelling itself tonight. Half the cast were making things up as they went along, and the Emperor Joe is walking as if he's got a duck up his knickers.

• Avery Phillips : This isn't like you, Tim.

  Tim Young : How do you know what's like me? I don't even know myself sometimes.

• Avery Phillips : On the other hand, a bad dress rehearsal does make a good first night.

  Tim Young : I wonder what fatuous idiot thought of that one?

  Avery Phillips : I believe it was Abraham Lincoln.

• Avery Phillips : Bottoms Up!

• Avery Phillips : This is it, lover. No turning back.

  Tim Young : No turning back.

  Avery Phillips : Here's merde in your eye.