The Loved One (1965)

John Gielgud: Sir Francis Hinsley

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• Sir Francis Hinsley : The people here are so kind and generous. They talk entirely for their own pleasure, and they never expect you to listen. Just remember that, dear boy, the secret of social ease in this country.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : [Pointing out an actor to Dennis]  He usually plays prime ministers or butlers.

• D.J. Jr. : [casting Dusty Acres as James Bond]  You think you can handle that English accent, Dusty?

  Dusty Acres : Aw shucks, I reckon I could if I just sorta snuck up on it.

  Harry Glenworthy : I think Frank here could straighten him out on the accent bit.

  D.J. Jr. : Is that right Frank? Do you think you can?

  Sir Francis Hinsley : Oh, yes. I daresay I could. Yes. I think I can.

  D.J. Jr. : You're sure you think you're sure you can, right?

  Sir Francis Hinsley : Yes, I think I can!

• Sir Francis Hinsley : You should have seen this place in the old days. Like a great aquarium, flashing with the limbs of beauties. All, alas, long since departed. Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : It's a bit odd. I went to my office this morning and there was a chap there. And a piece of paper pinned on the door with a name something like Lorenzo Medici.

  D.J. Jr. : Oh, yeah, Frank, that's right. Only, look, Frank, he said that it's Medici

  [pronounced: Med-i-sea] 

  D.J. Jr. : , like that. And how you say it, kind of sounds like a wop. And Mr. Medici is D.J.'s son-in-law, and my brother-in-law, and he's a very, very wonderful person with a very fine record.

  Sir Francis Hinsley : Well, I've no doubt of that, D.J. Jr., but the point is, where do I work now?

  D.J. Jr. : That's the thing I do want to talk to you about, Frank. As you can see - I just don't have the time right now. Ciao, baby.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : [at the studio commissary]  I think I'll just have my usual: Deep Dish Lolita and iced tea with a sprig of mint, please.

  Dennis Barlow : I'll have Breast of Squab Brigitte and the Goldwater Nut Flip.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : That's a sketch I made for the orgy scene in "The Sins of Solomon"... The studio was simply scandalized by it, but the public lapped it up. Those were the days.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : I expect you were a bit overtired. These newfangled jets, abrupt transition. One loses all sense of time and proportion, not like the old days on the Queen Mary.

• Sir Francis Hinsley : [reading lines with Dusty as he practices his English accent]  I don't like the look of this.

  Dusty Acres : Yes, it may get a bit dykey.

  Sir Francis Hinsley : [whispers]  Dicey.

  Dusty Acres : Dicey, if he decides to use the giant squid.