The Final Curtain (2002)

Peter O'Toole: JJ Curtis

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• JJ Curtis : You see, mine is a fascinating life. Born into poverty. Left school at twelve. Merchant navy. Last days of music hall. Pirate radio. Pioneer of television. A household name. Not bad for a boy from nowhere.

• JJ Curtis : This is my life, my book, my monument. There's no need for anybody else.

• JJ Curtis : [in the confessional box]  It's been some time father.

  Priest : How long?

  JJ Curtis : Thirty seven years.

• Jonathan Stitch : It *was* an accident, wasn't it?

  JJ Curtis : Up to a point. I mean, I had no way of calculating the actual voltage. There is always an element of chance in these sort of things.

• JJ Curtis : Jonathan. Do you know Dave? He is one of the new breed. Genetically modified horseshit.

• JJ Curtis : You're a novelist. And I'm a game show host. As you see it, I'm at the trashier end of popular culture. It's gaudy, it's lowbrow. I understand.

• JJ Curtis : Amazing, really, what a man can achieve with one bent journalist and an envelope stuffed full of £5 notes - money well spent.