Lix Storm quotes from The Hour

Lix

[to Freddie] When I was in France, there were these men I'd... Hmm, I'd loosely call them journalists, but they were never at the front. They never stuck their head above the parapet. They were terrified of being shot. Yet they wrote some of the best battle reportage that I've ever read. Filched most of it from us, and what they didn't know, they'd make up. But you're not one of them. And you'll never truly know, will you, Freddie? Unless you stick your neck out and get yourself a little bit muddy. Come on, jump. I dare you.

Lix

Whisky is God's way of telling us that he loves us and he wants us to be happy.

Lix

[describing some of her photographs.]That one was taken just outside of Madrid. They were one of the last to surrender in '39. She was running away from her house, leaving everything. A row of men are being executed just behind that door. Amongst them, her husband. She... She didn't look back. And I was irritated because I had my camera in my hand and I couldn't find another film. They were being shot one by one and all I could think was, "I've got no bloody film." I'm still proud I got it.

Lix

[to Bel] You know, really, darling, you are not getting any younger. Surprise me. Buy a bottle of wine, drink yourself silly and dance all night with some inappropriate man like you used to. It's much better than staying in with a good book. Me? I'm old. I've made my mistakes. But you, too pretty. Don't let it go to waste. Run away for too long and they stop loving you back.

Lix

[to Bel, about the accusations against Hector] Heroes or villains, we're all somewhere in between. The good do bad things and the bad are sometimes kind to their mothers.

Who's that? An actor?

Bel

Peter Grey, co-founder of the League For Homosexual Law Reform.

A homosexual?

Lix

Yes, Mr Wengrow. Remarkable. Looks just like you or I.

On the programme?

Lix

Mr Wengrow, if we're making a programme about birds, who would we contact?

The Royal Society for the Protection of...

Lix

Birds. Exactly. But we would not go on to assume that the spokesman they sent us was themselves feathered with a beak.

Lix

I saw a musical.

Randall Brown

A musical?

Lix

Why not? I was in the West End and I do sometimes. I thought...

Randall Brown

I hate musicals.

Lix

Yes, that's what I thought.

Lix

We're in trouble.

Randall Brown

That's the problem with trouble. It always starts out as such fun.