Some Mother's Son (1996)

Helen Mirren: Kathleen Quigley

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• Kathleen Quigley : What are you doing here?

  Alice Quigley : I resigned.

  Kathleen Quigley : What?

  Alice Quigley : I can't work there anymore.

  Kathleen Quigley : Why?

  Alice Quigley : Nobody trusts me!

  Kathleen Quigley : Well did- did someone say something?

  Alice Quigley : No... I just know.

  Kathleen Quigley : Oh, for God's sake! Alice!

  Alice Quigley : It's a bloody bank, Mum! The IRA have robbed it four times, why should they trust me?

  Kathleen Quigley : Gerard didn't rob it!

  Alice Quigley : How do you know?

  Kathleen Quigley : ...Where will you work?

  Alice Quigley : I can't stay here anymore. I hate this country.

• Annie Higgins : Our day will come.

  Kathleen Quigley : And what day is that, Annie?

  Annie Higgins : The day the Brits go home.

  Kathleen Quigley : The day the bloody Brits go home is all you people can think about, isn't it? Well, my life won't change either way.

  Annie Higgins : Well now, your life and my life are two very different things, Missus. My son was shot dead by the British, so you can take your brandy and shove it up your hole!

• Kathleen Quigley : [Reading a secret note given to her from the prison]  "My friend, the Brits have finally forced us to live in our own dirt. The lads' morale is collapsing. If you cannot find a solution, then we must push this crisis to its conclusion by going on hunger strike. I'm not threatening you but stating the cold reality. Your friend and comrade, Bobby Sands."

• Kathleen Quigley : Gerard, a man was shot!

  Gerard Quigley : But he was a soldier.

  Kathleen Quigley : He was somebody's son like you're mine!

  Gerard Quigley : He was waiting to kill us. He got shot.

  Kathleen Quigley : ...You lied to me.

  Gerard Quigley : I had to. I lied because I wanted to protect you.

  Kathleen Quigley : Protect me?

  Gerard Quigley : I didn't think you could handle it. You spent years like running away from all this stuff, okay?

  Kathleen Quigley : I'm your mother! Don't you talk to me about protecting me!

  Gerard Quigley : I'm sorry!

  Kathleen Quigley : Sorry's not enough, Gerard!

  [Composes herself] 

  Kathleen Quigley : Listen... Listen, I've got a lawyer downstairs and he says that he can get your charge reduced to conspiracy...

  Gerard Quigley : -I have to tell you something. I'm probably going to get locked up for a long time, and I don't need a lawyer. Because I'm a prisoner of war. I'm not a criminal. I don't recognize the court!

  Kathleen Quigley : Are you out of your mind?

• Kathleen Quigley : Look, they won't even let Bobby Sands talk to the press! He's our MP, we have no voice! You know thirty thousand people voted for Bobby Sands, that's more than voted for Thatcher! So what are you afraid of?

• Danny Boyle : Mrs. Quigley, I'm Danny Boyle, head of Sinn Fein in Belfast.

  Kathleen Quigley : Yes, I know who you are. What are you doing here?

  Danny Boyle : I'm here to support your son.

  Kathleen Quigley : My son does not need your support, Mr. Boyle!