Arthur Seaton: That's what all those silly laws are for, to be broken by blokes like us.
Arthur Seaton: You might cop it one of these days.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: There's a lot more in life Bert, than me Mam and dad have got.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: They have a TV set and a packet of fags, but they're both dead from the neck up.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: They'd beat me right enough. Still, I had me bit of fun. It's not the first time I've been in a losing fight, won't be the last either I suppose.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Think of number one, share and share alike's no good.
Jack: You wouldn't talk like that though if you won the pools.
Arthur Seaton: Wouldn't I? I'd see the family right but nobody else. If I got a stack of begging letters like other blokes do, you know what I'd do with them?
Jack: What?
Arthur Seaton: Make a bonfire.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: What are you doing round this way then?
Jack: I'm just going to press shop, I'm on days now.
Arthur Seaton: I thought you might be coming to see me.
Jack: There's no need of that is there?
Arthur Seaton: In't there. Haven't you thought them squaddies had killed me.
Jack: I don't know what you're talking about.
Arthur Seaton: That's the sort of bloke you are, in't it, till you get bashed in the face then you squeel like a stuck pig.
Jack: You caused a lot of trouble between me and Brenda, you can't deny it either, it weren't right.
Arthur Seaton: You don't have to tell me what's right and what's not. How's Brenda anyway?


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: What's up with you?
Brenda: Oh, stop it, you make too much fuss.
Arthur Seaton: What's the matter with you tonight?
Brenda: I'll tell you what's the matter with me Arthur, I'm pregnant, good and proper - and it's your fault.
Arthur Seaton: Oh aye, bound to be my fault isn't it.
Brenda: Well of course it is, you never take care, you just don't bother, always said this would happen one day.
Arthur Seaton: What a wonderful Friday night.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: What's your name then duck?
Doreen: Doreen, rotten name ain't it.
Arthur Seaton: What's the matter with it? Mine's Arthur, neither of them's up to much but it's not our fault, is it.


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Arthur Seaton: Why don't you leave him alone you old bag.
Mrs. Bull: Cheeky young beggar!
Voice in Crowd.: You'll get 6 months in Lincoln.
Drunken Man: Oh - let me go.
Arthur Seaton: Walk off mate, nobody'll stop you.
Civil Defence Officer: Don't put ideas in his head or you'll be in trouble.
Arthur Seaton: You shut your bleeding rathole ratface, what good's it gonna do you handing him over to coppers?


--Albert Finney (as Arthur Seaton) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Mark Wallace: [Joanna has returned from an affair] Hello.
Joanna Wallace: Hello.
Mark Wallace: Well?
Joanna Wallace: [softly, on the verge of tears] I'm back.
Mark Wallace: Enjoy yourself?
Joanna Wallace: [nods] Yes, thank you. But I *missed* you.
[Mark sarcastically rolls his eyes, not believing her]
Joanna Wallace: But I *did*.
Mark Wallace: Why?
Joanna Wallace: Because he's so serious.
Mark Wallace: I thought you liked people who were serious.
Joanna Wallace: But he's *so* serious.
Mark Wallace: Well, I'd better make some funny faces...
Joanna Wallace: [softly] You don't need to make funny faces.
[Mark gives no response]
Joanna Wallace: Mark, I'm back!
Mark Wallace: You humiliated me. You humiliate me... and then you come back.
Joanna Wallace: [nods tearfully] That's right.
Mark Wallace: Thank God!
[he hugs her and they tearfully kiss]


--Albert Finney (as Mark Wallace) in Two for the Road