Prick Up Your Ears Quotes

Joe Orton: [accepting a drama award] My plays are about getting away with it, and the ones who get away with it are the guilty ones. It's the innocents who get it in the neck. But that all seems pretty true to life to me. Not a fantasy at all. I've got away with it *so far* [hoisting trophy]
Joe Orton: and I'm going to go on.

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Kenneth Halliwell: The whole point about irrational behavior is that it IS irrational!

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Kenneth Halliwell: Writing, John, is one tenth inspiration, nine tenths...
Joe Orton: Masturbation!

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Leonie Orton: [Mingling Joe's and Ken's ashes] I think I'm putting in more of Joe than I am of Kenneth.
Peggy Ramsay: It's a gesture dear, not a recipe.

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Mrs. Sugden: Do you notice I'm limping? Spilled a hot drink down my dress. My vagina came up like a football.

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