Brooklyn (2015)
Nora-Jane Noone: Sheila
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Quotes
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Sheila : Would I get married again? No, I want to be waiting outside the bathroom of my boarding house forever. Of course I do. That's why I go to that wretched dance every week. I want to be waiting outside my own bathroom, while some bad tempered fellow with hair growing out of his ears reads the newspaper on the toilet and I wish I was back here, talking to you.
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Diana : Have you told Tony yet, Ellis?
Eilis : Of course.
Sheila : Is he taking you out to celebrate?
Eilis : We're going to Coney Island at the weekend.
Patty : Oh, boy.
Eilis : What does that mean?
Patty : Well, do you have a bathing costume?
Eilis : No, I was going to...
Diana : Do you have sunglasses?
Eilis : No.
Sheila : You need sunglasses. I read that if you don't have them on the beach this year, people will talk about you.
Mrs. Keogh : And what will they say, exactly, Sheila?
Dolores : That's the thing, Mrs Keogh. You'd never know, because they'd never say it to your face.
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Mrs. Keogh : I saw you had letters today, Diana. Any news?
Diana : Mr. de Valera's had another operation on his eyes, she says. He's been in Holland.
Mrs. Keogh : I don't want news I can read in a newspaper.
Sheila : Anyway, we would describe Mr. de Valera as politics, would we not, Mrs. Keogh? And we do not like politics at the dinner table.
Mrs. Keogh : We don't.
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Mrs. Keogh : Eilis, Father Flood told me about your Christmas plans.
Diana : Oh, you're not serving lunch to the old fellas with nowhere to go, are you? He asks us every year. We always say no.
Sheila : Eilis, you're a saint. They smell awful.
Patty : Sheila knows how they smell 'cause that's where she goes husband-hunting.
[Diana laughs]
Mrs. Keogh : It's a marvelous thing you're doing, Eilis. A Christian thing. I wish there were more like you.
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Mrs. Keogh : What is the matter with you girls now?
Patty : Nothing is the matter with us, Mrs. Keogh.
Mrs. Keogh : Is this all because Eilis has found herself a young man?
Diana : Eilis has a young man? We didn't know. She won't say anything about it.
Mrs. Keogh : And why should she to you awful gossipmongers? Anyway, I met him on Saturday night when he called for Eilis, and he's a gentleman.
Patty : Will you tell us what you know about him, Mrs. Keogh? We know he's quite nice-looking.
Sheila : Didn't like his shoes much.
Eilis : What on earth is wrong with his shoes?
Sheila : They were a funny color.
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Mrs. Keogh : Girls, you'll take Dolores to the dance with you on Saturday night, won't you?
Dolores : There's a dance?
Mrs. Keogh : At the parish hall. There'll be no alcohol, but you can have fun without it.
Diana : Um... Patty and I aren't going this week. We're going to see a movie instead.
Mrs. Keogh : Well, I'm sure Dolores would enjoy a movie just as well.
Dolores : I would, very much. There are so many more movies here in New York than in Cavan.
Sheila : Yes, surprising, isn't it? You'd think it'd be the other way around.
[Patty and Diana snicker]
Patty : Of course, you would be welcome to join us, Dolores. So long as you don't mind being a gooseberry.
Mrs. Keogh : So you both miraculously found boyfriends over the last couple of days, did you? Well, I hope you have more luck with these than you did with the last few.
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Mrs. Keogh : Have they told you what day for the nylons sale, Ellis? Never had a Bartocci's girl in here. Might get some inside information.
Eilis : I haven't been told anything.
Diana : I bet you wouldn't let on if you had.
Patty : She's that sort. More aligned to her bosses than to her friends.
Diana : Like a red spy.
Sheila : Oh, dear God.
Mrs. Keogh : I'll thank you to keep His name out of a conversation about nylons. He might be everywhere, but He's not in Bartocci's on sale day.