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"Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips its shrill and hollow and tuneless."
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Educating Rita (film)Educating Rita (film)
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Educating Rita is a 1983 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play. The film stars Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams and Maureen Lipman. It won multiple major awards for best actor and best actress and was nominated for three Academy Awards. Caine and Walters both won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for best actor
"Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips its shrill and hollow and tuneless."
"Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!"
"In reply to the question "Suggest how you would resolve the staging difficulties inherent in a production of Ibsens Peer Gynt", you have written, quote: "Do it on the radio." Unquote."
"I did join in the singing. But when I turned around, me mother had stopped singin, and she was cryin. I said, Why are you cryin, Mother? And she said, There must be better songs to sing than this. And I thought, yeah - thats what Im trying to do, isnt it? Sing a better song."
"Christ! Me customer! Shes still under the dryer. She only wanted a demi-wave, shell come out lookin like a friggin muppet!"
"Im beginning to find me. Its great. It is, you know, Frank. It might sound selfish, but all I want for the time being is what Im finding inside me."
"Sometimes students end up being the best teachers."
"A comedy about a teacher and a very memorable student."
"Michael Caine - Dr Frank Bryant"
"Julie Walters - Susan "Rita" White"
"Maeve Germaine - Sandra, Ritas sister"
"Jeananne Crowley - Julia, Franks girlfriend"