Willy Russell > Quotes

“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”
― Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy

“I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”
― Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine

“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.”
― Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine

“FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.”
― Willy Russell, Educating Rita

“Într-o noapte m-am întors acasă, şi Trish, care credeam că-i atât de echilibrată emoţional, tocmai încercase să se spânzure. Magic, nu? Şi-a pierdut jumătate din viaţă mâncând produse dietetice să nu-şi strice ficatul, iar cealalaltă jumătate încercând să se sinucidă.”
― Willy Russell, Educating Rita

“Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.”
― Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine

“Blood Brothers”
― Willy Russell, Blood Brothers

“I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.”
― Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine

“Why didn't you give me away? I could have been...I could have been him.”
― Willy Russell, Blood Brothers

“It's what we do Rita; we pluck birds from the sky and nail them down to learn how they fly.”
― Willy Russell

“But that's the thing about trouble; it's like quicksand and once you've got yourself into it, it's dead easy then to just keep getting deeper and deeper and deeper into more of it.”
― Willy Russell, The Wrong Boy