Black Books (TV Series)

The Entertainer (2002)

Bill Bailey: Manny

Quotes 

• Manny : Ah! I can play!

• Fran : What did you say that for? Now he's coming back.

  Bernard : Don't worry. Manny'll pick it up.

  Manny : No he won't. He's on holiday, remember? He'll be watching the test match in bed eating tiramisu with a long spoon.

• Bernard : Where's my cure?

  Manny : It's not my fault you're hungover.

  Bernard : It is your fault! If I lived with a normal person, there wouldn't be so much to blot out.

• Manny : I want the weekend off. I want a life.

  Bernard : This is life! We suffer and slave and expire. That's it!

  Manny : We have needs! Fran wants to learn the piano, I want some time to myself, you want to go out with a girl...

  Bernard : Don't make me laugh... bitterly. Fran will fail, you'll toil your life away, and I'll die alone, upside down on the floor of a pub toilet.

• Manny : I wanted to learn piano, but my parents forced me not to. I was out there, playing football on my own, looking in the windows at my friends all practising piano...

• Manny : Oh dear. Drinking when you should be practising? Naughty, naughty.

• Manny : Spoon me.

• Manny : It's good isn't it. Sort of relaxing.

• Bernard : [Manny is practising a Bach Fugue]  Faster. Faster. You're not trying. Feathery strokes, feathery strokes.

  Manny : You just told me to dampen it!

  Bernard : Damp feathers.