Norm:
The place is surging with girls.
John: Please, sir, sir, can I have one to surge me, sir, please, sir?
Norm: No, you can't!
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
John: Please, sir, sir, can I have one to surge me, sir, please, sir?
Norm: No, you can't!
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Norm:
This is a battle of nerves between John and me.
Shake: John hasn't got any.
Norm: Any what?
Shake: Nerves.
Norm: That's the trouble. I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. Sometimes I think he enjoys seeing me suffer.
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Shake: John hasn't got any.
Norm: Any what?
Shake: Nerves.
Norm: That's the trouble. I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. Sometimes I think he enjoys seeing me suffer.
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Shake:
Well, he just asked if he could have those photos, and Norm said no, and I said, "Well, why not be big about it?"
Paul: Yeah, and?
Norm: And your grandfather pointed out that Shake was always being taller than me just to spite me!
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Paul: Yeah, and?
Norm: And your grandfather pointed out that Shake was always being taller than me just to spite me!
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Arthur Seaton:
It costs too much to get married, a lump sum down and your wages a week for life.
Bert: Most blokes ain't got 'owt else to work for, have they?
Arthur Seaton: No. I have though. I work for the factory, income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They're up you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.
Bert: That's how things are Arthur, no good going crazy over it. All you can do is go on working and hope that some day something good will turn up.
--Norman Rossington (as Bert) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Bert: Most blokes ain't got 'owt else to work for, have they?
Arthur Seaton: No. I have though. I work for the factory, income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They're up you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.
Bert: That's how things are Arthur, no good going crazy over it. All you can do is go on working and hope that some day something good will turn up.
--Norman Rossington (as Bert) in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Grandfather:
It's my considered opinion that you're a bunch of sissies.
John: You're just jealous.
Norm: Leave him alone, Lennon... or I'll tell them all the truth about you.
John: You wouldn't.
Norm: Oh, I would, though.
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
John: You're just jealous.
Norm: Leave him alone, Lennon... or I'll tell them all the truth about you.
John: You wouldn't.
Norm: Oh, I would, though.
--Norman Rossington (as Norm) in A Hard Day's Night
Mayor of Colleville:
[meeting the British on the beach] Welcome; welcome, friends. I brought champagne, but I do know think it will be enough for all of you.
Lord Lovat: Quite alright. We have a pressing engagement; the war. Move inland.
[to his bagpiper]
Lord Lovat: Millen, Blue Bonnett!
[as British troops march inland to the bagpipe playing of Millen, the mayor of Colleville raises his champagne bottle in salute, which earns the bemused observation of Clough and Flanagan]
Pvt. Clough: [to Flanagan] I tell you, there are some pretty peculiar blokes on this beach.
--Norman Rossington (as Pvt. Clough) in The Longest Day
Lord Lovat: Quite alright. We have a pressing engagement; the war. Move inland.
[to his bagpiper]
Lord Lovat: Millen, Blue Bonnett!
[as British troops march inland to the bagpipe playing of Millen, the mayor of Colleville raises his champagne bottle in salute, which earns the bemused observation of Clough and Flanagan]
Pvt. Clough: [to Flanagan] I tell you, there are some pretty peculiar blokes on this beach.
--Norman Rossington (as Pvt. Clough) in The Longest Day