Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)

Episode #4.1 (2016)

Anne Reid: Celia

Quotes 

• Celia : [after announcing that she has auditioned for a play in the local theatre to keep her brain active]  Learning lines keeps your neurons... neurinating

• [first lines] 

  Celia : [Celia's mobile rings]  Oh, hello, now what?

  [answering] 

  Celia : Hello!

  Caroline : Mum? Guess what?

  Celia : The aliens have landed?

  Caroline : No, not yet. Uh, well, they might have, but no one's told me.

• Celia : [at Gillian's house, in front of a laptop]  It's a state school!

  Gillian : What, like... Where the ordinary people go?

  Celia : Uh. Oh, hell's bells.

  Alan : Come on, spit it out.

  Celia : What? Oh... I don't think it's in a very nice area.

  Alan : Well, how can you tell?

  Raff : [reading over Celia's shoulder]  Oh my God. Crow Wood Park. That's where Adrian Bottomley got sent when they expelled him. It's where that science teacher got stabbed last year.

  [pauses] 

  Raff : He pulled through.

• Celia : I think you spend too much time with Gillian.

  Caroline : How?

  Celia : Because you're starting to talk like her.

  Caroline : [under her breath]  Bollocks.