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"[Frank throws up his communion breakfast] I've got God in me backyard!"

"Michael Legge as Older Frank"

"[At dancing lessons] Would you stop the frowning, McCourt?! You've a face on you like a pound of tripe!"

"Eanna MacLiam as Uncle Pat"

"If I were in America, I could say "I love you, dad", the way they do in the films. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you. In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win. Anything else is softness in the head."

"Ronnie Masterson as Grandma Sheehan"

"Robert Carlyle as Malachy (Frank's father)"

"[Puts a wafer on Frank's tongue] Will you stop your clucking and get back to your seat?! Corpus Christi."

"Emily Watson as Angela McCourt (Frank's mother)"

"Liam Carney as Uncle Pa Keating"

"Everyone I know and half the poor of Limerick are here. They all owed the old bitch money. Well, not anymore. [Throws ledger book into the River Shannon]"

"[Ship is sailing out of New York City] We must've been the only Irish family to be saying good bye to the statue of liberty rather than hello."

"Andrew Bennett as Narrator (Geriatric Frank)"

"[Frank is in bed watching his mother, who is also watching him as she starts stepping up the stairs in Laman Griffin's residence] I thought mam would come and kiss me good night, to say thank you for sticking up for her. But no, she went to him."

"Peter Halpin as Older Malachy"

"Joe Breen as Young Frank"

"Also, Mikey is the expert in the lane on girls' bodies... and dirty things in general."

"[[Frank is lying in bed recovering from fever in hospital and a doctor sitting near him has farted] And then Dr. Campbell came in and held my hand. It was then that I knew I was going to get better because a doctor would never fart in the presence of a dying boy."

"We all miss Malachy. He's, uh, miss him? He... He's gone to join the army band! Playing the bugle. The bugle? Can you imagine that, playin' the bugle? Playin' the fool, more like."

"[To Angela] Give me a fag, woman. I'm telling you, that boy is a little shite!"

"Ciaran Owens as Middle Frank"

"Pauline McLynn as Aunt Aggie"

"Shane Murray-Corcoran as Young Malachy (as Shane Murray Corcoran)"

"Devon Murray as Middle Malachy"

"[Commenting on traditional Irish dancing] If my mates saw me making a pure eejit out of myself at the Irish dancing, I'd be disgrace forever. I want to be Fred Astaire. Irish dancers look like they have steel rods stuck up their arses."

"In the name of the father, the son and the holy toast."

""What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!"

"We don't need no education"

"You! You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!"

"But in town it was well known"

"Is there anybody out there?"

"When we grew up and went to school"

""An acre is the area of a rectangle"

"[singing] I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me. I have seen the writing on the wall. Don't think I need anything at all. No! Don't think I'll need anything at all. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall. All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall."

"[singing] We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey, teachers! leave them kids alone! All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall."

"[singing] Are there any queers in the theatre tonight? Get 'em up against the wall! That one in the spotlight, he don't look right! Get him up against the wall! And that one looks Jewish... and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff raff into the room? That one's smoking a joint! And that one's got spots! If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!"

"Stop! I wanna go home, take off this uniform, and leave the show. I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know... have I been guilty all this time?"

"[singing] Daddy's flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory A snapshot in the family album Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all it was all just bricks in the wall."

"[A phone ringing]"

"The memories. The madness. The music... The movie."

"Pink's Manager: He's an artist! [Stuffs cash into hotel manager's pockets, then begins slapping Pink] He's coming around! There, you see! How do you feel? [Directs roadies as they dress the barely-conscious Pink and drag him out of hotel room, down the hall, and into a limousine, which will take him to the concert hall]."

"Hotel Manager: [Outraged by the condition of Pink's room] An asthmatic?"

"There were a number of different influences, some literary. Graham Swift’s novel Waterland [1983] was a book we had to read in school. It has multiple timelines, and the way it cuts between them and how effective that was, combining history with the present. I happened to read that around about the same time as I watched Alan Parker’s Pink Floyd: The Wall [1982], which is a truly remarkable, impressionistic film. Like, what the fuck is that movie? It’s quite marvellous. The way he uses the production design, the different timelines, the intermingling of memory, dream, things like that, it was very influential on me. And the cinema of Nicolas Roeg, in particular, the editing rhythms and the way he used things other than narrative and chronological progression, that all started to click with me."

"Groupie: [While Pink watches TV, ignoring her] Oh, my God. What a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars? [Touches guitars] God. This place is bigger than our whole apartment. [Pause] You like the tube, huh? [Pause] Can I get a drink of water? Can I get you a drink of water? [Goes into the bathroom] Oh, wow! Look at this tub! Wanna take a bath? [Comes back out] What are you watching? [Her voice begins echoing and fading] Hello? Hello? Are you feeling okay?"

""Mother": [lyrics] Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry. Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true. Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you. Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing. She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing. Mama will keep baby cozy and warm. Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, oooooh babe, Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall."

"Pink's Manager: [Discovers Pink's hotel room trashed, while Pink, who is due to perform, is unconscious] Fuck me! He's gone completely around the bleedin' twist! [to Pink] You vicious bastard, you never did like me, did you? [Inaudibly, continunes to harangue the unconscious Pink as the medical team attempts to revive him] The boy's an asthmatic."

"Pink Floyd The Wall. Now the film."

"Remember my name..."

"Meg Tilly - Principal dancer"

"If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got."