The Comic Strip Presents (TV Series)

The Beat Generation (1983)

Dawn French: Eleanor

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Quotes 

• Eleanor : What's it like to be successful, Alan?

  Alan : Success? Well, it's like going to an orgy in clean underpants.

  Eleanor : Oh, wow!

  Alan : It's Marlon Brando throwing up in your bathroom.

  Eleanor : Oh, crazy!

• [Desmond and Eleanor are in bed. Desmond is frantically licking Eleanor's cheek and Eleanor is reading a magazine. Alan sits on the end of the bed] 

  Alan : I don't think this sex thing is happening, Desmond. Eleanor looks bored.

  Desmond : Is she?

  Alan : Eleanor?

  Eleanor : What?

  Alan : When Desmond's doing that to you, does the earth move at all?

  Eleanor : [sighs]  No, only the bed.

• Eleanor : [Enters on crutches]  Alan, Alan, look, I did it. I've finally cut it off.

  Alan : Where's the leg?

  Eleanor : At the hospital.

  Alan : But it's the leg we're interested in.