Prime Suspect (1991)

Zoë Wanamaker: Moyra Henson

Quotes 

• [to a nosy neighbour, about her husband] 

  Moyra Henson : What are you staring at? He's gone out, now he's back, all right?... Nosy old bitch.

  [Looks up and sees the police, who have been spying on her flat. She hesitates before unzipping her top and flashing her breasts] 

• DCI Jane Tennison : Did you also do a hairdressing course?

  Moyra Henson : No.

  DCI Jane Tennison : So you're not a hairdresser?

  Moyra Henson : No. But I once had a Siamese cat.

• [Searching Moyra Henson's house] 

  DI Frank Burkin : Where's your bathroom?

  Moyra Henson : [voice]  This is harrassment you know! You've already been here two days on the trot! What are you looking for this time? I've got an appointment to keep you know!

  [Moyra comes into camera view] 

  Moyra Henson : How long are you going to be this time?

  [Frank picks up her laundry basket] 

  Moyra Henson : And you can put that laundry back, sonny! Unless your a perverted crotch sniffer. Those are my dirty knickers! And I know how many there are!

  DCI Jane Tennison : How'd you feel about your boyfriend picking up prostitutes?

  Moyra Henson : I love it! Gives me a night's rest!

• [George is talking about a day out with his mother when he was a child] 

  George Marlow : Just as we got to the gates. The lads they all saw it... The wind blew her wig off.

  Moyra Henson : [begins to laugh]  You're kidding me? Blew her wig off? No...

  [she bursts into hysterical laughter] 

  George Marlow : It wasn't funny, Moyra!

  Moyra Henson : [laughing]  I'm sorry.

  George Marlow : Dad ran down the road to try and get it back.

  [Moyra continues to laugh] 

  George Marlow : Mum just stood there. I didn't know she had no hair... Well, Dad tried to help her put it back on, but he got the parting on the wrong...

  [Moyra continues to laugh hysterically] 

  George Marlow : Underneath all that glamour she was... ugly. Like she was someone I never knew.

  Moyra Henson : Did all the kids see it?

  [George nods] 

  Moyra Henson : Did she ever mention it again?

  [George shakes his head] 

  Moyra Henson : I've never said anything; it's always been obvious to me, I mean... Just thought it was old age. How long has she been bald then?

  George Marlow : Dunno, she never mentions it. Still pretends, always telling me she needs a good shampoo and trim.

  Moyra Henson : Just goes to show you - the Rita Hayworth of Warrington was really Yul Brynner in disguise.

  [they both slowly burst into laughter]