The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978 TV Movie)

Neil Innes: Ron Nasty

Photos 

Quotes 

• [answers to reporter's question, "What's your ambition?"] 

  Barry Wom : I'd like to be a hairdresser. Or two. I'd like to be two hairdressers.

  Ron Nasty : [sullenly]  I'd like to own a squadron of tanks.

  Dirk McQuickly : What Ron and I'll do is probably to write some songs, you know, and sell them to people.

• Reporter : It must have been a great honor, meeting the queen.

  Ron Nasty : Yes, it must have been.

  Reporter : What did she ask you?

  Barry Wom : She asked us who we were. And then to get out.

  Reporter : What did you say?

  Dirk McQuickly : [pointing at Ron Nasty]  I said I was him.

• Reporter : Do you feel better after seeing the Queen?

  Ron Nasty : No, you feel better after seeing the doctor!

  Dirk McQuickly : Not my doctor you don't!

  Ron Nasty : No, not your doctor.

• [on manager Leggy Mountbatten's emigration to Australia] 

  Narrator : It was a bombshell for the Rutles. They were shocked... and stunned.

  Dirk McQuickly : Well, we're shocked.

  Ron Nasty : Yeah, shocked.

  Barry Wom : Shocked.

  Dirk McQuickly : And stunned.

  Ron Nasty : Yeah, stunned.

  Barry Wom : Very stunned.

  Reporter : Did Arthur Sultan have any words of encouragement for you?

  Ron Nasty : No.

  Dirk McQuickly : Well, yeah.

  Ron Nasty : Well, yeah and no... he said, uh, that it took all sorts to make a world, and that we shouldn't worry unduly about where he'd gone.

  Dirk McQuickly : You know, we shouldn't become covered with grief at thoughts of Australia, because...

  Ron Nasty : He did say that we could still keep in touch with him by tapping the table.

  Dirk McQuickly : And postcards.

  Ron Nasty : Yeah.

  Barry Wom : Very stunned.

• [Ron Nasty and wife Chastity are giving a press conference in Nasty's shower] 

  Ron Nasty : We're doing this for peace, and basically to show that the world is, you know, going astray in its thinking.

  Reporter : What are you doing?

  Ron Nasty : We're getting wet. In a shower. Because, basically, we talked it over, Chastity and myself, and we came to the conclusion that civilization is nothing more than an effective sewage system. And so by the use of plumbing we hope to demonstrate this to the world.